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 …
Climate change, Transport
Will the countries of Central Asia be able to move from debates to actions? Does the region tackle environmental problems?
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 …
IPCC Released AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023
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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Energy
Scientists unveil least costly carbon capture system to date
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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Emergency, risks, disaster risk reduction
NASA Says 2022 Fifth Warmest Year on Record, Warming Trend Continues
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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Water resources
NASA Measures Underground Water Flowing From Sierra to Central Valley
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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Emergency, risks, disaster risk reduction
How Is Climate Change Affecting Central Asia?
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 …
Water resources
Water Mission to Gauge Alaskan Rivers on Front Lines of Climate Change
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory While Alaska straddles the Arctic Circle and is covered by vast expanses of frozen land, the state also has a lot of liquid water. In fact, Alaska holds about 40% of U.S. surface water resources. This includes more than 12,000 rivers, thousands more streams and creeks, and hundreds of thousands of …
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Emergency, risks, disaster risk reduction
NASA Sensors to Help Detect Methane Emitted by Landfills
A nonprofit group, Carbon Mapper, will use data from NASA’s EMIT mission, plus current airborne and future satellite instruments, to survey waste sites for methane emissions.
Energy
USAID launches a “community of practice” to strengthen cooperation on water, energy, food and environmental issues in Central Asia
BISHKEK, KYRGYZ REPUBLIC (November 10, 2022) – Today, in Bishkek, USAID launched a Community of Practice webpage that will serve as an online knowledge repository and discussion platform for water specialists in the region, and provide an important foundation for ensuring sustainable collaboration on water, energy and climate change issues in Central Asia. Tha launch …