From 17 to 26 August 2023, twenty young people from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan gathered in the northern Tian Shan mountains...
With global climate action stagnating, sustained community-driven initiatives can fill the governance gap and also help mitigate climate-related security risks...
With cities continuously more threatened by climate change-induced disasters, urban planning’s reflex response is to protect cities against nature. But what if...
WATCH: On the sidelines of the Green Central Asia conference in Berlin on 28 January, 2020, Foreign Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic H.E. Chingiz Aidarbekov gave...
One of the biggest challenges to climate action is not only understanding the risks of flooding, extreme heat and other challenges, but how your community might...
The destruction caused by Cyclone Ockhi in South Asia portends what a ‘climate-changed’ world has in store for humankind, especially taking into consideration...
While current anti-climate developments in the US administration caused anxiety among climate advocates, its immediate effects might be more positive than...
Cities are on the sharp end of a range of risks from criminal violence, terrorism and war to demographic pressures, to climate and environmental change. Coastal...
With the failure of July 14-15 talks held between India and Pakistan to settle concerns raised by the latter over the former’s dam projects (Kishenganga and...
The changing climate brings about more intense floods in cities in India and all around the world. It seems, however, that urban planning is still neglecting...
In May 2011, two weeks before I was scheduled to start research in the region, a Mongol herder named Mergen was hit by a mining truck while protecting his...
The Sundarbans – a collection of densely populated islands in India’s sprawling Ganges Delta – are so remote that the only way to get there is by boat. But...
Diplomacy surrounding climate change happens on numerous levels. The current definition of climate diplomacy largely centres on the negotiations by state...
Karachi, the world’s second largest city by population, is emerging from the grips of a deadly heatwave. A persistent low pressure system camped over the...
Global cities like Singapore have the unique opportunity to contribute in the learning from and sharing of best practices in urban sustainability and...
Flooding which affected some two million people in Thailand in 2011, fueled civil resentment towards the newly elected government. The floods resulted from...