Indicators of Sustainable Development for Central Asia Countries

Multilateral Agreements at the Global and Regional Levels

Air

Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (Geneva 1979)

The 1999 Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone and its 2012 amended version

The 1998 Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and its 2009 amended version

The 1998 Protocol on Heavy Metals and its 2012 amended version

The 1994 Protocol on Further Reduction of Sulphur Emissions

The 1991 Protocol concerning the Control of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds or their Transboundary Fluxes

The 1988 Protocol concerning the Control of Nitrogen Oxides or their Transboundary Fluxes

The 1985 Protocol on the Reduction of Sulphur Emissions or their Transboundary Fluxes by at least 30 per cent

The 1984 Protocol on Long-term Financing of the Cooperative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long-range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe (EMEP)

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (New York, 1992)

Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Kyoto, 1997)

Paris Agreement on Climate ( 2015)

Water Resources

Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Helsinki, March 1992)

Amendment to the Convention Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (2004)

Protocol on Water and Health to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (London, June 1999)

Protocol on Civil Liability and Compensation for Damage Caused by the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents on Transboundary Waters to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes and to the 1992

Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents (Kiev, 2003)

Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (New York, 1997)

Biodiversity

Convention on Biological Diversity (Rio de Janeiro, 1992)

Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity (2000)

Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity (2010)

Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar, February 1971)

Land Resources

UN Convention to Combat Desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification, particularly in Africa (Paris, 1994)

Advisory Documents and Guidelines

Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm, 1972)

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (1992)

United Nations Millennium Declaration (2000)

Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development (2002)

Publications of Different Organisations

UNECE

First Environmental Performance Review - Kazakhstan (2000)

Second Environmental Performance Review - Kazakhstan (2008)

Third Environmental Performance Review of Kazakhstan (2019)

First Environmental Performance Review - Kyrgyzstan (2000)

Second Environmental Performance Review - Kyrgyzstan (2009)

First Environmental Performance Review - Tajikistan (2004)

Second Environmental Performance Review - Tajikistan (2012)

First Environmental Performance Review - Turkmenistan (2012)

First Environmental Performance Review - Uzbekistan (2001)

Second Environmental Performance Review - Uzbekistan (2010)

Third Environmental Performance Review - Uzbekistan (2020)

Guidelines for developing national strategies to use biodiversity monitoring as an environmental policy tool for countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, as well as interested South-Eastern European countries (2012)

Guidelines for Developing National Strategies to Use Air and Water Quality Monitoring as Environmental Policy Tools (2012)

CAREC

Central Asia: Progress Review in Realization of the Agenda 21 (2001)

Water Quality Standards and Norms in the Republic of Kazakhstan // Djumagulov A.A., NIkolaenko A.Yu., Mirkhashimov I. Kh. (2009)

Water Quality Standards and Norms in the Kyrgyz Republic // Djayloobaev A.Sh., Neronova T.I., NIkolaenko A.Yu., Mirkhashimov I. Kh. (2009)

Water Quality Standards and Norms in the Republic of Tajikistan // Tyuryaev A.A., NIkolaenko A.Yu., Mirkhashimov I. Kh. (2009)

Water Quality Standards and Norms in the Republic of Uzbekistan // Yarullina Z., Bensitova G., Mamanazarov M. (2011)

WHO

Air quality guidelines. Global update 2005. Particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide

Air quality guidelines for particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide - Global update 2005 - Summary of risk assessment

Guidelines for drinking-water quality, fourth edition (2011)

Guidelines for drinking-water quality, third edition (2004)

Miscelaneous

Environment, Water and Security in Central Asia (2003)

Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Development of Local Communities - Kyrgyz Republic (UNDP, 2008)

Sub-Regional Integrated Environment Assessment: Central Asia (SIC ICSD, 2007)