The Central Asia Climate Change Conference

The Central Asia Climate Change Conference was held in Almaty from January 24 to 25. At least 200 representatives of governmental and non-governmental institutions, the scientific community, multilateral development banks that work in the field of climate change have attended this event.

The theme of the Conference was "Building path towards sustainable regional adaptation", the main objective of which is to support the regional dialogue, dissemination of knowledge and information on adaptation to climate change and to identify opportunities for further joint actions between all stakeholders.

The Conference is organized by the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia (CAREC). It is the first Central Asia Climate Change Conference was held in Almaty. This event was within the framework of Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program for Aral Sea Basin (CAMP4ASB) with the participation of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) with the support of the World Bank.

From our PEER project, Dr. Jay Sagin and Mohammad Daud Hamidi participated in this conference.