International Green Technologies and Investment Projects Center announces the vacancy “Consultant in the field of gender policy” The Consultant will carry out and implement project activities on the Readiness project «Further strengthening Kazakhstan’s programming capacity, institutional support for expanding direct access to the Green Climate Fund (hereinafter – GCF) and development of green finance …
The FAO Livestock Assessment and Environmental Performance Partnership (LEAP) and the FAO Sub-Regional Office for Central Asia are inviting experts from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to participate in an upcoming training course on quantifying the impact of livestock production on biodiversity. Working languages of the training: English, Russian and Turkish. …
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Wheat has been and remains a strategically important food product worldwide. Kazakhstan is the major supplier of wheat in Central Asia. Accordingly, the wheat yield in Kazakhstan ensures the food security of the entire Central Asian region. Owing to climatic features, Kazakhstan mainly grows spring grain crops for which good soil moisture is crucial …
Bishkek – Kyrgyzstan – the first meeting of the Technical Working Group on Transparency in Adaptation to Climate Change in Central Asian countries will be held on 13-14 July 2023 in a hybrid format: offline and online. During the meeting, a working group on climate change adaptation will be formed; it will make …
Reflections of Zafar Makhmudov. It is well-known that a human tendency is more prone to denial than to take it on faith: people prefer to pass everything through their critical filter, taste and sample everything, assess the degree of objectivity and ensure that what is happening is real. Very illustrative in this sense is how …
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023. The report assesses climate change processes and provides recommendations for decision-makers. The report says climate change intensifies due to human factors. Immediate actions are needed to mitigate climate change impacts, especially in vulnerable countries, including Central Asia. According to the report, the …
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The need for technology that can capture, remove and repurpose carbon dioxide grows stronger with every CO2 molecule that reaches Earth’s atmosphere. To meet that need, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have cleared a new milestone in their efforts to make carbon capture more affordable and widespread. They have created …
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Earth’s average surface temperature in 2022 tied with 2015 as the fifth warmest on record, according to an analysis by NASA. Continuing the planet’s long-term warming trend, global temperatures in 2022 were 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit (0.89 degrees Celsius) above the average for NASA’s baseline period (1951-1980), scientists from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) …
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In a recent study, scientists found that a previously unmeasured source – water percolating through soil and fractured rock below California’s Sierra Nevada mountains – delivers an average of 4 million acre-feet (5 cubic kilometers) of water to the state’s Central Valley each year. This underground source accounts for about 10% of all the water …
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Water is arguably the most important resource in Central Asia. It is vital for agriculture, which feeds and provides livelihoods for the region’s predominantly rural population, as well as for hydropower stations that generate electricity for domestic consumption and export. But this resource is at risk. According to the 2019 report by the Intergovernmental Panel …
