A national strategy for the development of a closed-loop economy has been approved in Belarus

The document developed in accordance with the National Action Plan for the Development of a “green” economy in the Republic of Belarus for 2021-2025 provides for:

The main indicators of the effectiveness of the implementation of the national strategy are:

reduction of the energy intensity of GDP (in 2005 prices, from 388.1 kg of CU/million rubles in 2021 to 268 kg of CU/million rubles in 2035);

increase in the volume of primary energy production (extraction) from renewable energy sources to the volume of gross consumption of fuel and energy resources (from 7.9 percent in 2021 to 9 percent in 2035);

reduction of the intensity of production waste generation per unit of GDP (in comparable prices in 2018 from 0.49 kg/rubles in 2021 to 0.4 kg/rubles in 2035);

the level of use of industrial waste (excluding large-scale waste) (at least 90 percent for the period of implementation of the national strategy); an increase in the level of use of MSW in the total volume of their formation (from 31.1 percent in 2021 to 90 percent in 2035);

increasing the efficiency of water use (from 60.7 rubles/cubic meters in 2021 to 62 rubles/cubic meters in 2035).