Although the region of Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) has developed steadily over the last twenty-five years, the verdict on the state of the environment is more complex.In many countries, the economy was for years premised on the extraction of non-renewable natural resources and fossil fuels, polluting ecosystems and filling the air with chemicals and other harmful substances.Take the “yellow open fields” of Central Asia. In Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, 55…
Why protecting the environment is not a burden but an opportunity
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