Climate Resilience Planning in Central Asia
Developing a uniquely regional response to climate risk and vulnerability
- Location: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
- Date: 2020 – 2021
- Client: Regional Environmental Center for Central Asia (CAREC)
- Project Type: Climate adaptation and resilience
Building regional insight and tools for national and local adaptation
Among the most vulnerable regions to climate change, Central Asia needed to learn how to adapt to more frequent floods and droughts, landslides and avalanches.
Hydro Nova was appointed by CAREC to carry out climate resilience planning and develop tools for Central Asia countries to evaluate climate risks and coordinate actions to reduce vulnerability in agriculture, industry and health.
We identified adaptation measures for climate change, demonstrated ways to integrate climate risk and resilience into development planning and prepared sector-based hazard management plans.
Services Provided
Method for climate risk assessment
Our role involved developing an interactive and scalable methodology for countries to assess climate risk and vulnerability across multiple economic sectors.
Vulnerability and risk assessment
Our assessment identified the sectors in each country most at risk of climate impacts and developed a new atlas of climate vulnerability. We provided actionable options for adaptation and demonstrated our assessment method in five pilot sites.
Climate Adaptation Tool for Central Asia
We developed and launched the region’s first online portal,
Central Asia ADAPT, a resource for country-specific climate risk and adaptation analysis and planning.
E-learning and training
We trained a community of experts and planners through our series of online video classes on conducting climate risk assessments and mainstreaming into national plans.
