High Level Political Forum | 12 July 2021 | 13:30-15:00 CEST (7:30-9:00 NY times) | VIRTUAL EVENT Organizers: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. The post-COVID recovery offers an opportunity to reverse unsustainable economic trends and build back better, to promote sustainable consumption and…
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With COVID-19 causing the biggest paradigm shift in the world order, more and more people are beginning to realize how we, humans, had taken the Earth and all its blessings for granted. Even before this pandemic had begun, environmental activists like 15-year-old Greta Thunberg constantly made noise about the importance of adapting a circular economic…
Uzbekistan has climbed up to the 29th place in the World Giving Index this year. Last year, the country was ranked 18th (46%) in donations to charities, 58th in helping others (57% of people), and 62nd in terms of volunteering (16%). Indonesia was ranked first with a score of 69, up from 59 the last…
Uzbekistan carried out construction works totaling $ 3.5bn over the past five months of 2021. This is up almost 100.9% than in the corresponding period of 2020. State-owned organizations have carried out construction works for a total amount of $ 141mn. Their share in the republic was 4.0%. The share of non-state organizations comprised 96.0%. The…
Uzbekistan‘s Finance Ministry is set to issue $870 million worth of eurobonds in two tranches, in US Dollars and Uzbek soms, a representative of the ministry told Sputnik on Friday. On Thursday, a source from the country’s banking sector also told Sputnik that Uzbekistan was planning to sell eurobonds denominated in dollars and soms. The authorities were expected to place a series of…