On December 2, Tashkent hosted a high-level conference on climate change under the theme ‘From global knowledge to local solutions: climate resilient institutions in Central Asia.’ Green Central Asia with the UN Development Programme organized the event in close cooperation with Uzhydromet, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Ministry of Water Resources.
More than 140 delegates engaged in a compressive dialogue around environmental threats and called on all Central Asian states to join forces to develop a sound balance between mitigation and adaptation to climate change.
The first plenary session focused on measures to increase climate change and disaster resilience in Central Asia. The participants disclosed the climate policies of the Central Asian states with regard to the security risks associated with climate change.
As a result of the second plenary session focused on the water-energy-food-health nexus for achieving the SDGs, the participants defined the scope of actions for implementing climate change adaptation and risk reduction measures, as well as increasing climate resilience in water use and land management in the five Central Asian countries.
The main topic of the third plenary session was regional partnership and exchange through the involvement of national governments and regional intergovernmental institutions and platforms in the region.
The participants noted that given the nature of climate risks and shared natural resources, climate action can be seen as an entry point for strengthened regional cooperation. In recent years, Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan have made remarkable progress in climate change adaptation and achieving green growth based on natural capital. They initiated the establishment of an inter-sector cooperation on mitigation and adaptation of the Climate Change resilience on management of natural resources.
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https://www.undp.org/uzbekistan/press-releases/central-asia-needs-take-more-action-climate-change-risks-regional-conference-linked-cop27-calls-all-central-asian-states
