Kazakhstan incorporates UNDP recommendations to protect agriculture from climate change

ASTANA – The United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) new report “Climate Change Adaptation in Europe and Central Asia: Adapting to a Changing Climate for Resilient Development,” which draws on lessons learned from Kazakhstan’s wheat farming project, was presented at the Dec. 2-14 Katowice Climate Change conference in Poland.

 

“With impressive development progress over the past two decades, the countries of the Europe and Central Asia region are primed for significant environmental, economic and social growth,” but climate change-driven hazards threaten to reverse this progress in agriculture, energy and public health, the report begins.