Promotion of the Green Economy Strategy in Uzbekistan: The Textile and Garment Sector.

This report is an overview of the current situation in the textile and clothing industry in the Republic of Uzbekistan and examines the possibilities of developing a Circular Economy, including the principles of Sustainable Production and consumption (SCP).

The five chapters in this Report review the existing policies and standards in Uzbekistan, explain the preparation of a textile processing scoping study to examine best practice in the textile industry, provide proposals to help enable SCP in the Uzbek textile sector, give a roadmap for more resource-efficient industrial practices in this sector, and conclude with a summary of the workshop. Five annexes complete the report.

The Report is developed within the EU funded SWITCH-Asia Regional Programme launched in 2007 as part of the European Union’s priority to support a programme of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) in its regional cooperation strategy with Asia. As of 2023, the programme covers 41 countries in Asia, the Middle-East and the Pacific. It addresses emerging economies as well as least-developed and major CO2 emitting countries.