From 25 to 27 July 2023, Almaty, Kazakhstan is hosting an international training on tracking progress of national contributions under the Paris Agreement, conducted jointly by the ReCATH project of the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia (CAREC) and the CBIT-GSP Global Support Programme. The training is conducted within the
“The exceptional warmth in June and at the start of July occurred at the onset of the development of El Niño, which is expected to further fuel the heat both on land and in the oceans and lead to more extreme temperatures and marine heatwaves,” said Prof. Christopher Hewitt,
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
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
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
Highlights from the Central Asia Climate Change Conference (CACCC-2023)
Pathways to Adaptation and Resilience in North and Central Asia takes forward the analysis of the Asia Pacific Disaster Report 2021 and demonstrates how the subregion is being affected by various risk parameters, and where new hotspots of exposure and vulnerability to climate induced, cascading multi-hazard scenarios are being created.
Changes in lake area (water surface area) are often considered accurate and sensitive representations of climate change. However, the role that elevation plays in this dynamic is somewhat unclear; studies remain inconclusive as to whether lake responses are consistent across elevation gradients. Here, we used Landsat and keyhole satellite images to
With the increased damage caused by wildfires under global warming, accurately predicting wildfires remains challenging yet crucial for regional disaster mitigation. The boreal summer (June–September: JJAS) wildfire burned area (BA) of Central Asia reaches the greatest seasonal extent and has the largest interannual variance over the Eurasian continent. Considering both
Climate change impacts are already noticeable in Central Asia, which is expected to be one of the most vulnerable regions globally. Global warming leads to increased melting of snow and glaciers and thawing of permafrost and as such affects the overall water balance. The mountain cryosphere is already changing and
