Water, water everywhere in Kyrgyzstan – except when and where it’s needed. Kyrgyzstan is a Central Asian nation that traditionally has been well endowed with water. But, in an era marked by global warming, old assumptions about water supplies are changing, and farmers are getting nervous. Conditions in Togotoi, a village in southern Kyrgyzstan’s Osh …
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Decades of high economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region have transformed its socioeconomic landscape – lifting a billion people out of extreme poverty in the past two decades and raising living standards of even greater numbers. However, such growth has been accompanied by growing inequality of income and opportunity and is beginning to breach planetary …
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The IPCC 4th Assessment Report state that climate change poses serious threats to Central Asia’s environment, ecological and socio-economic systems, particularly because of the arid nature of the region. The complexity of precipitation changes, vegetation-climate feedback, and direct physiological effects of CO2 on vegetation present significant challenges for understanding and modelling climate change in such …
Information about weather stations of Uzhydromet (name, location, geoposition). Data belongs to Centre of hydrometeorological service at Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Uzbekistan (Uzhydromet)
Kazakhstan ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on 4 May 1995 and became a party to it in August of that year. On 12 March 1999, the President of Kazakhstan signed the Kyoto Protocol (KP) to the UNFCCC, and on 23 March 2000, the Government notified the UN Secretary-General of its …
Under the 7th GEF replenishment, GEF-7, Impact Programs (IPs) on Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration (FOLUR); Sustainable Forest Management (SFM); and Sustainable Cities are being developed to address the drivers of environmental degradation, and to support transformational change in these key systems.
