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Environment and Renewables: 2025 in review
12/31/2025
As the year 2025 draws to a close, there are now fewer than five years remaining...
Echo of the Eurasian Steppe: The Saiga’s Unprecedented Recovery in Kazakhstan
11/20/2025
Known for its prehistoric appearance, the saiga antelope became an icon among th...
Central Asia’s Future Melts Away: Water Down the Drain?
08/28/2025
The accelerating environmental crisis in Central Asia has become impossible to i...
A Win for Big Oil in Kazakhstan: Surprise Court Ruling Favors Investors
08/21/2025
In a startling reversal that favors large energy companies, an appellate court r...
A UN Bet on Almaty: Kazakhstan Steps Up as Central Asia’s SDG Hub
08/20/2025
In an era marked by increasing global skepticism toward international institutio...
Central Asia: The Road From Baku to Belém via Ashgabat And Samarkand
06/18/2025
Collective exchanges have become increasingly important as Central Asian countri...
COP 29: The Caspian COP
12/19/2024
COP Climate Summits are exhausting events. The stakes are high and most COPs fal...
Caspian Green Energy Corridor Moves Forward
11/14/2024
With COP 29 underway, the presidents of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan h...
COP29: THE COUNTDOWN STARTS
08/15/2024
The announcement on August 3 that there were 100 days to go until COP29 …...
The Climate Crisis has come to the South Caucasus
07/29/2024
Climate change has begun to harm the physical and economic security of people li...
OTS Rides the Middle Corridor to the Summit
07/23/2024
Member-country ministers were charged with optimizing and digitalizing the Middl...
Is it too late to save Central Asia? The COP crisis is already here
05/16/2024
One-third of Central Asia’s glaciers have melted, as the region’s air temperatur...
COP29: the Caspian Region takes the Stage at the World’s Climate Summit
04/16/2024
This November in Baku, the Azerbaijan COP29 Presidency and the rest of South Cau...
Kazakhstan’s New Nuclear Problem: Lake Balkhash
02/22/2024
Another landlocked lake in Kazakhstan is under threat. While declining water lev...
A New Focus on Renewables: 2023 in Review
12/20/2023
Renewable energy became a consistent focal point in energy dialogues among count...
Merging the Ecological and Trade Challenges of the Caspian
Jahan Taganova, Nathan Hutson, Rachana Mattur
12/14/2023
A looming shortage of potable water driven by rising global temperatures and poo...
Afghanistan’s Canal Project Threatens Central Asian Water Security
09/05/2023
Central Asia’s water security is facing a serious threat as the Taliban governme...
Kazakhstan Makes Efforts to Save the Declining Caspian Seal Population
06/20/2023
The future of the Caspian Sea’s ecology is under threat as the declining shoreli...
Vice President Harris Emphasizes Water Security: Central Asia is a Contender for Partnership
07/04/2022
On June 1, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris emphasized water security as an ess...