Online Event Tuesday, April 30, 2024 from 10:00-11:00 am EDT In November 2024, the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, marking the third year in… Continue reading COP29, Azerbaijan, and Environmental and Human Rights
Category: Environment
environmental issues in Central Asia
Central Asia’s Aral Sea: Lessons for Today’s Climate Crisis
Hybrid Event, Image by NASA Earth Observatory December 11, 9:00 am – 10:30 am (EST) Once one of the world’s largest inland bodies of water, the Aral Sea began to shrink… Continue reading Central Asia’s Aral Sea: Lessons for Today’s Climate Crisis
Nuclear and Biological Nonproliferation: Lessons from Kazakhstan and Central Asia
Online event September 5, 2023, 9:00 am – 10:30 am EDT Stronger than Death memorial, Semei, Kazakhstan. Image Source: astanatimes.com In a world increasingly defined by bellicose rhetoric, nuclear nonproliferation… Continue reading Nuclear and Biological Nonproliferation: Lessons from Kazakhstan and Central Asia
Should Turkmenistan Use the Caspian Sea to Quench its Thirst?
Authors: Originally from Turkmenistan, Jahan Taganova is a water diplomat, One Young World Peace Ambassador, and scholar, working at the intersection of global development and public policy. Jahan graduated with… Continue reading Should Turkmenistan Use the Caspian Sea to Quench its Thirst?
Emil Shukurov on Nomadism: A Kyrgyz Response to the Environmental Crisis
By Dr. Paul Woods Dr. Paul Woods is a Research Tutor at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies in Oxford. His principal research interest is contemporary activism in Central Asia.… Continue reading Emil Shukurov on Nomadism: A Kyrgyz Response to the Environmental Crisis
Book Launch – Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin
Book Launch – Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin March 16, 2021 Virtual book launch hosted by the Central Asia Program at the Institute for… Continue reading Book Launch – Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin
The Other Side of Oil (Video)
The Other Side of Oil December 7, 2020 Virtual event hosted by The George Washington University’s Central Asia Program and Crude Accountability presenting The Other Side of Oil, a documentary… Continue reading The Other Side of Oil (Video)
The Geopolitics of Renewable Energy in Kazakhstan
By Natalie Koch CAP Paper 211, September 2018 Natalie Koch is Associate Professor of Geography and O’Hanley Faculty Scholar at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She… Continue reading The Geopolitics of Renewable Energy in Kazakhstan
Urbanization, Climate Change Erode Nomadic Lifestyle
Author: Li You Source: Sixth Tone As the nomadic people of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region begin their annual migration to warmer pastures, the snow has yet to fall. For thousands… Continue reading Urbanization, Climate Change Erode Nomadic Lifestyle
Five Reasons to Support the UN Initiative on Overcoming the “Water Crisis” in Central Asia
By Bekhzod Kozakov
