Perspectives for the Deepening of Cooperation on Environmental Problems within SCO Structure

Abstract

The author argues for necessity of ecological cooperation within SCO, it should be based on the concept of “green economic growth“. He notes that in SCO countries (especially in China) ecological problems are being transformed from national to regional. Under consideration are the directions of possible ecological cooperation: water resources management, coordination of trading of quotas for greenhouse emissions, harmonization of ecological standards and exchange of green technologies SCO has the potential of becoming the main platform of solving ecological disputes in the region.