TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, June 23. The Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change of Uzbekistan has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Vision International Investment Company (VIIC) and France’s Suez International to jointly implement an advanced hazardous industrial waste management project, Trend reports.
The memorandum of understanding was executed by Deputy Minister
of Ecology Jusipbek Kazbekov, VIIC’s Director of Development Kapil
Lalwani, and Suez International’s Regional Director for Europe and
Central Asia, Paul Bourdillon.
The initiative, appraised at $78 million, will be executed in a
tripartite framework. The initial stage will encompass the
establishment of waste stabilization infrastructures, specialized
landfill sites, and strategically positioned regional transfer
hubs. The subsequent phase will emphasize the formulation of
initial engineering schematics and the pilot evaluation of
methodologies for generating Refuse-Derived Fuel (RDF), in
conjunction with incineration and thermal processing frameworks. In
the terminal and ultimate phase, a comprehensive RDF generation and
waste-to-energy infrastructure will be engineered and
operationalized.
This accord signifies a pivotal juncture in enhancing transnational
collaboration and is anticipated to markedly augment Uzbekistan’s
ecological governance frameworks, facilitating a more pristine,
secure, and sustainable trajectory for the country.
Suez International, a French entity with a legacy exceeding 160
years in the domain of hydric and waste management, engages on a
global scale, delivering avant-garde solutions in potable water
distribution, effluent treatment processes, and the reclamation of
refuse, encompassing hazardous substances. VIIC, inaugurated in
2002 within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, operates as a premier
investment holding entity, overseeing a portfolio of assets
approximating $96 billion in valuation. The organization
strategically concentrates its efforts on domains including energy,
infrastructure, utilities, water resource management, electricity
generation, consultancy services, and public-private partnership
(PPP) initiatives.
