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Title: ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS TO MONITOR THE STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN UZBEKISTAN


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ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS TO MONITOR THE
STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN UZBEKISTAN
  • Khalilulla Sherimbetov,
  • Project Task Manager

2
In the international Conference Environment
for Europe in Kiev in May 2003, the
environmental ministers of 51 countries
(including Uzbekistan) have considered and
approved Guiding principles on preparation of
national environmental reports on state and
protection of nature prepared by UNECE Working
Group on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
  • Special emphasis in this document was focused
    upon a selection of the required environmental
    indicators for an assessment of the state of the
    environment

3
The ultimate Project outcome
  • To improve the quality of monitoring of the
    environmental state for more effective
    decision-making in the field of nature protection
    as well as nature resources use, and performance
    of the nature-conservative measures

4
The main Project objectives
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Expected outputs
  • An effective system of indicators created for
    assessment of environment quality and nature
    resources use and development of the
    environmental monitoring system on this base.
  • Database developed and updated on a regular basis
    in accordance with signed agreements between
    Goskompriroda and generators/owners of desirable
    ecological data.
  • Data are being managed effectively in order to
    produce the products required by decision-makers
    and other clients.
  • Good level of awareness by the clients achieved
    about the availability of such tool to increase
    effectiveness of their decision-making and other
    activities to reduce negative consequences for
    environment.
  • Improved public awareness and sensitivity on the
    issues of the protection of environment.

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Usage of the Project outputs
  • The environmental indicators database can
    be used by interested ministries and other
    organizations responsible for protection of the
    environment and nature resources use for the
    following
  • preparation of the State of Environment Reports
    as well as other reports on nature protection and
    nature resources use
  • fulfillment of obligations of the Republic of
    Uzbekistan on various international environmental
    conventions
  • development and realization of measures for
    protection of environment
  • Economic and social development planning and
    other strategic areas to provide a sustainable
    development of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

7
Creating of the national environmental indicators
of the Republic of Uzbekistan
  • Key objective of the environmental indicators
    system designed for Uzbekistan is to establish a
    single national policy of the state of
    environmental monitoring, improving efficiency of
    relevant activities and environmental decision
    making, and rational management of national
    natural resources.
  • The Republic of Uzbekistan is a participant of
    the UNECE programme Environment for Europe.
  • Therefore, when selecting indicators, mainly ,
    were only applied the criteria used by the UNECE
    and EAOC experts for the EECCA countries.

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Criteria for the selection of the main core set
of indicators
  • Linkage with country environmental priorities
  • Linkage with international environmental
    policy
  • Importance as a mean of communications and for
    informing public on the current state of the
    environment
  • Measurability
  • Availability of historical series of data
    (regular data flow)
  • Predictability
  • Reliability

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The core set of the national environmental
indicators
  • In total 91 indicators were selected of which 68
    indicators are from the international list of the
    EECCA countries and 23 indicators describe the
    specific environment of Uzbekistan

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The selected indicators were grouped according to
the following priority environmental problems and
economy sectors
  • Atmospheric air 20
  • Water resources 25
  • Land resources 14
  • Biological resources 6
  • Waste 9
  • Climate change 6
  • Energy 4
  • Taking into account the country specifics for
    Uzbekistan the list of indicators was
    supplemented with two sections related to Aral
    Sea and public health
  • Aral sea - 2
  • Public health - 5

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Introduction of every indicator is time bound and
it is agreed with the potential responsible party
  • short-term indicators to be introduced as of
    2005
  • midterm indicators to be introduced as of
    2007-2008
  • long-term indicators to be introduced after 2010.

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THE CORE SET OF ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS OFFERED
BY UNECE AND USED FOR UZBEKISTAN
Atmosphere air pollution
  1. Total emission of acidifying pollutants (SO2,
    NOx) from non-mobile and mobile sources (total
    and by sectors)
  2. SO2 emissions, related to power generation
  3. N?? emissions, related to power generation
  4. SO2 emissions from non-mobile and mobile sources
    (total and break-down by sectors)
  5. Particulate matter emissions, related to power
    generation
  6. NH3 emissions (total and break-down by sectors)
  7. NOx emissions from non-mobile and mobile sources
    (total and by sectors)
  8. NOx, ?? emissions from mobile sources
  9. Particulate matter emissions from non-mobile and
    mobile sources (total and break-down by sectors)
  10. N?x emissions intensity, related to power
    generation
  11. SO2 emissions intensity, related to power
    generation (Tons/KW per hour)

13
THE CORE SET OF ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS OFFERED
BY UNECE AND USED FOR UZBEKISTAN
Atmosphere
  • Number of days when NO2 concentration in urban
    areas is above the maximum allowed concentration
    (regular/routine observations)
  • Number of days when particulate matter
    concentration in urban areas is above the maximum
    allowed concentration (regular/routine
    observations)
  • Number of days when CO concentration in urban
    areas is above the maximum allowed concentration
    (regular/routine observations)
  • Number of days when SO2 concentration in urban
    areas is above the maximum allowed concentration
    (regular/routine observations)
  • Urban population exposed to air quality
    axcceedances (e.g. multiplicity maximum allowed
    concentrations or air pollution index)
  • Efficacy of measures aimed at SO2 and NOx
    emissions abatement

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THE CORE SET OF ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS OFFERED
BY UNECE AND USED FOR UZBEKISTAN
Climate change
  • Consumption of Ozone Depletion Substances (ODS),
    taking into account Ozone Depletion Capacity
    (ODC)
  • Precipitation
  • Snow cover
  • Emissions of greenhouse gases and comparative
    analysis with target indicators, provided that
    any are available
  • Projected emissions of greenhouse gases by 2010
    and comparative analysis with target indicators,
    provided that any are available
  • River Flow Deficit Index
  • Water level change (Aral sea)

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THE CORE SET OF ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS OFFERED
BY UNECE AND USED FOR UZBEKISTAN
Water resources
  1. Total water consumption (including all types of
    users)
  2. Fresh water resources (surface and underground)
  3. Utilities water consumption
  4. Total integral water abstraction (surface and
    underground water)
  5. Agriculture water consumption
  6. (Index) of household drinking water consumption
    per capita
  7. Total volume of water resources in water
    reservoirs
  8. Industry water consumption
  9. Irreversible water loses (in agriculture)
  10. Proportion of reused water

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THE CORE SET OF ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS OFFERED
BY UNECE AND USED FOR UZBEKISTAN
Water resources
  1. Quality of drinking water (proportion of samples
    non-compliant with standard)
  2. Organic matters discharge according to the
    Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)
  3. BOD and ammonia nitrogen in surface water
  4. Nutrients in surface waters (nitrates and
    phosphates)
  5. Nutrients discharge from urban sewerage treatment
    facilities (nitrates and phosphates)
  6. Proportion of urban raw sewerage in total urban
    water discharge
  7. Nitrates concentration in underground waters
  8. Industrial discharge of hazardous substances
  9. Hazardous substances concentration in surface
    waters
  10. Pesticides concentration in underground waters
  11. Other hazardous substances concentration in
    underground waters
  12. Water Pollution Index (WPI) classification

17
THE CORE SET OF ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS OFFERED
BY UNECE AND USED FOR UZBEKISTAN
Land
  1. Soil pollution by pesticides
  2. Proportion of agricultural land affected by wind
    and water erosion
  3. Agriculture land cover change
  4. Mineral fertilizer use
  5. Pesticides use

Biodiversity
  • Total amount of protected natural zones
  • Natural forests area
  • Proportion of endangered species of animals
    listed in the Red Book
  • Endangered species of plants listed in the Red
    Book

18
THE CORE SET OF ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS OFFERED
BY UNECE AND USED FOR UZBEKISTAN
Energy
  1. Total energy consumption by type of fuel
  2. Total power intensity (specific power consumption
    per Gross Domestic Product GDP)
  3. Renewable energy consumption
  4. Power generated from renewable energy sources

Waste
  1. Total amount of generated waste
  2. Toxic hazardous waste generation
  3. Industrial waste generation
  4. Cross-border transportation of hazardous waste
  5. Total waste disposal
  6. Waste generation intensity (total amount waste
    per GDP)
  7. Household waste generation
  8. Waste recycling
  9. Waste recycling output capacity

19
THE ADDITIONAL CORE SET OF ENVIRONMENTAL
INDICATORS FOR UZBEKISTAN
Atmosphere
  • Total gross emission of pollutants including
  • non-mobile sources,
  • mobile sources
  • Pollutant emission per capita (regular/ routine
    observations in towns)
  • Atmospheric pollution in urban ( Atmospheric
    Pollution Index)

Climate change
  1. Temperature deviation from climate baseline norm
    (1961-1990)

20
THE ADDITIONAL CORE SET OF ENVIRONMENTAL
INDICATORS FOR UZBEKISTAN
Water resources
  1. Approved amount of underground water available
    for consumption
  2. Underground Water Pollution Index (UWPI)

Land
  • Total agricultural land (including homestead and
    irrigated land)
  • Irrigated land used for sowing
  • Cotton crops capacity
  • Compliance of crop rotation on irrigated land for
    land reclamation
  • Quality of irrigated arable land
  • Land subjected to under flooding
  • Irrigated land salinization
  • Pasture overgrazing
  • Land radiation pollution

21
THE ADDITIONAL CORE SET OF ENVIRONMENTAL
INDICATORS FOR UZBEKISTAN
Biodiversity
  • Total forestry fund land area covered by forest
  • Protective afforestation coverage

Aral sea
  1. Afforested dried seabed area

Public health
  1. Population morbidity
  2. Population mortality
  3. Morbidity rate for children under the age of 14
  4. Infant mortality (for children under the age of
    1)
  5. Non compliance of foodstuffs and raw food
    materials with sanitation requirements SanPin N
    0138-03, N 0109-01

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Methodology and scheme
A special methodology for defining the core set
of environmental indicators as well as the
description scheme for each of the selected
indicators were presented by the UN Commission on
Sustainable Development in its Indicators of
Sustainable Development Guidelines and
Methodologies", United Nations, New York, 2001.
On this basis the following description scheme of
the ecological indicators for Uzbekistan was
developed
  • Title
  • Brief definition
  • Unit of measurement
  • Purposes and usefulness in decision-making,
    including the indicator role in DPSIR framework
  • International conventions and agreements in the
    area, if available
  • International and national target indictors,
    issue-specific standards and normatives, if
    available
  • Framework
  • Measurement methods
  • Requirements to monitoring and data collection
  • Difficulties and limitations
  • Reference to national and international
    databases, if available
  • Reference materials
  • References corresponding publications
  • This scheme is a basis for the development of the
    document Guideline principles for the
    application of the environmental indicators in
    Uzbekistan

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All selected indicators enable to perform
environmental assessment and observe its dynamics
when monitoring the environment not only at
regional and national level but, and this is very
important, at local level. Tracing the
environmental situation at local level
facilitates a more reliable identification of the
specific sectors where the most critical
environmental situation lies, allowing the
drafting of targeted action plans for its
stabilization. The proposed environmental
indicators are the fundamental basis underpinning
environmental assessment, environmental policy
and decision making in Uzbekistan. It is also
possible to introduce changes and additions
during environmental monitoring, with the purpose
of dynamic and continuous improvement of the
system.
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Environmental Information Sharing
Data Providers
Dataset C
LAN Intranet Internet
Dataset D
Dataset B
Environmental Information Portal
Data Providers
Dataset A
Dataset N
Users ???
Examples the UNEP Geodata Portal
(http//geodata.grid.unep.ch/) the FAO GeoNetwork
(http//www.fao.org/geonetwork/)
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Conceptof theUzbekistan EIS
Data providers
Environmental Indicators for Uzbekistan
(91) Themes Atmosphere, Freshwater, Land,
Biodiversity, Waste Energy, Aral Sea, Climate
Change, and Public Health
Goskompriroda and UNDP Environment Programme
Web site (Http//eis.nature.uz)
Environmental Indicators Database
Users
Output options Table and Graph reports
  • Search and query by
  • Keyword
  • Environmental theme
  • Environmental Indicator
  • Time
  • Place

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Search Flow Mechanism
Data search range
Simple search by keyword (e.g. air, CO2
emissions, water) Advanced search allows
searching for keyword, environmental theme ,
environmental indicator, time, place.
Keyword
1
Dataset
List of matching datasets the search is narrowed
down to a dataset (single or aggregated).
2
Search is narrowed down according by time single
time unit (e.g. year) or time range (e.g. 1991,
1992 or 1990 to 2000).
Time
3
Data display is available in a number of formats
interactive table display, interactive graphic
display, data download. Search refine is also
possible.
Output options
4
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EIS Portal Entry Page
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