New Sustainable Economics

03/04/2025 22:02

Integrated planning as a key to sustainable development of the cities

On April 4-5, 2025, Samarkand will host the first Samarkand International Climate Forum, bringing together world leaders, politicians, experts and activists to discuss pressing climate challenges. One of the key sessions of the forum will be “Sustainable Cities and Climate Challenges: Integrated Planning and Management”, dedicated to sustainable urban development and adaptation to climate change.

31/03/2025 21:43

A never-ending struggle

China has a long history of food crises, making food security a top government priority. In the world's second most populous country, threats to food supply also pose risks to social and political stability. China must feed 22 per cent of the global population with only 7 per cent of the world's arable land and limited water resources.

30/01/2025 18:35

Coca Cola invests $15M to address plastic waste in Asia

The grant will help the United Nations Development Programme implement plastic waste management measures in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Maldives, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam.

29/01/2025 22:51

Increasing co-operation in the agro-industrial sector

Kazakhstan, with its vast agricultural land of 220 million hectares, is rapidly developing its agro-industrial complex.

29/01/2025 22:44

MOL Group in Kazakhstan

In the West Kazakhstan Region, 60 kilometers northeast of the town of Uralsk, Hungarian MOL Group, together with its partners, celebrated in December 2023: first gas was reached in the Rozhkovskoye gas and condensate field. Since the first well, the project has continued apace.

06/01/2025 08:00

Sri Lanka launches nationwide program to become cleanest country in Asia

Sri Lanka's new government has launched a nationwide project aiming to make it the cleanest country in Asia and enforce the principles of environmental justice.

07/12/2024 17:09

Green horizons of Uzbekistan’s sustainable development

At a national referendum in 2023, Uzbekistan’s citizens voted in favor of a new edition of the Constitution, which defined the country as a sovereign, democratic, social-welfare and secular state ruled by law.

07/12/2024 16:47

Uzbekistan eyes environmental sustainability

As Uzbekistan enters a new stage of its development, environmental protection, rational use of nature, addressing ecological issues and eliminating their negative consequences have become one of the priority areas of national policy designed to deliver decent living conditions for people and improve their well-being.

08/11/2024 11:08

Eastern and Western car industries meet in Hungary

In recent years, Hungary has become a major centre of Chinese automotive investment in Central Europe. Investment is particularly strong in the field of electric vehicles and battery production, in line with the European automotive industry's shift to electric mobility.

04/11/2024 22:35

China, UAE participate in major renewable energy project in Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan plans to construct eight waste-to-energy plants to generate electricity. The projects will be carried out by Chinese and UAE companies.

20/09/2024 06:00

BRICS catches up with the G7 countries

In the wake of the global and regional crises of recent years, as the ideological and political divides between the West and the Global South deepen, the cooperation between the strongest economies has gained in importance. The economic and political weight of the Global South is growing, as evidenced by the rise of the BRICS.

30/08/2024 06:00

Investment projects for renewable energies as a future trend?

In the past year, engagement between the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the Central Asian states (C5) has increased significantly, particularly in the energy sector. In 2023 and early 2024, several steps were taken to strengthen relations between the regions in the field of fossil and renewable energy, especially in the field of renewable energy projects with the Central Asian countries.

15/08/2024 07:00

Dragon in panda skin

Chinese panda diplomacy is perhaps one of the easiest examples of soft power to understand. For decades, the Asian power has been leasing - initially donating - the animals, which are only indigenous to China, and the delegation or repatriation of giant pandas has always served Beijing's interests.

27/06/2024 20:45

Dubai to build massive $8.2bn rain drainage network

The new network will increase Dubai’s rainwater drainage capacity by 700 percent and “enhance the emirate’s readiness to face future climate challenges” Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammed said.

31/05/2024 11:46

Competition and cooperation

In the current complex geopolitical system, development is almost inconceivable without cooperation, especially if we take into account the main driving forces of the 21st century, the green transition and digitalisation, which also serves sustainability goals to a large extent.

02/05/2024 09:00

Connectivity is key in green energy

The geographic location of energy sources and the extraction sites of raw materials for green energy is not distributed according to the principles of equality and justice.