ONE ENERGY ZONE, ONE WAY OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (THE SILK ROAD COUNTRIES)

In the article presented the perspectives of the Silk Road countries development in the aspect of their integration within the framework of the One-Belt and One-Way Initiative, covering a set of countries with a significant variability in the parameters of economic development. The emphasis of the research on the energy aspect of cooperation determined the assessment of the level of national production energy intensity, the energy consumption of countries, etc. The list of these criteria is supplemented by indicators related to the states' commitment to the concept of sustainable development it concerns emissions of CO2, the state and prospects of alternative energy development and etc. Authors used several different indexes, such as: energy use, CO2 emissions, energy use per $ 1,000 GDP, and adjusted savings: mineral depletion. The state of the relationship between the economic, environmental and energy components of development was determined based on material from countries geographically adjacent to the initiator of the revival of cooperation within in the project "One Belt-One Road" - China, Russia and Mongolia. Authors considered the key cooperation areas of countries in the sphere of energy in the frame of present research. The focus and specificity of the countries' participation in the framework of energy cooperation was examined including with the participation of international organizations. Special attention is paid to assessing the place and role of the Russian Federation. The authors used factual material on such countries as China, Russia, Mongolia, as well as others to illustrate the provisions submitted for discussion. (c) 2019 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK