In this report, includes the itinerary for the 2017 Central Asian Leadership Programme on Environment for Sustainable Development, which lists explicit items of the event’s agenda that take place at the meeting.
This meeting occurs to celebrate the 17 years of CAREC and cooperative regional development of Central Asia. In this report, includes the itinerary for the 2018 Central Asian Leadership Programme on Environment for Sustainable Development, which gives explicit items of the event’s agenda that take place at the meeting.
Publications on climate change issues in the context of countries of Central Asia and the region as a whole
The development objective of the Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program for the Aral Sea Basin Project for Central Asia is to enhance regionally coordinated access to improved climate change knowledge services for key stakeholders (e.g., policy makers, communities, and civil society) in participating Central Asian countries, as well as to
A significant part of the population of the Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) relies upon land resources to sustain their livelihoods. Pastures, cropland and forests are the basis for food security and provide income opportunities for many people in the region. About 60 percent of the
This guidance builds on the already widely used Conservation Measures Partnership’s Open Stand- ards for the Practice of Conservation (Conservation Standards) to propose a method for designing, im- plementing and learning from ecosystem-based ad- aptation (EbA) interventions. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) defines EbA as “the use of biodiversity
The global project “Biodiversity and ecosystem services in agrarian landscapes” was commissioned by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in Tajikistan, India, and Kenya, where GIZ
Nature is the source of life. Human wellbeing depends largely on the benefits that ecosystems provide. Services such as water purification, soil fertility, pollination and erosion prevention – to name just a few – are essential for food production, climate change adaptation and the protection of infrastructure and human settlements
The stepwise IES approach aims to provide practitioners with a practical and policy-relevant framework for integrating ecosystem services into development planning, emphasizing the case of economies where agriculture plays a major role. The table below summarises these steps. They are described in detail in the IES manual.
Nature is the source of life. Human wellbeing depends largely on the benefits that ecosystems provide. Services such as water purification, soil fertility, pollination and erosion prevention – to name just a few – are essential for food production, climate change adaptation and the protection of infrastructure and human settlements
