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Research

Tajikistan’s Water Paradox: Can New Money Fix an Old Constraint?
08/12/2026
Tajikistan is both water-rich and power-poor, and a wave of international financ...

A “Peace” of the Pie: Water-sharing Agreement Signed in Dushanbe Amid Growing Scarcity in Central Asia
08/04/2026
As water scarcity in Central Asia intensifies, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbek...

Can the Middle Corridor Outrun Climate Change? The Caspian Sea’s Challenge to Eurasian Connectivity
07/31/2026
Discussions of the Middle Corridor often focus on geopolitics, infrastructure in...

A Hotter Future: El Niño and the Acceleration of Central Asia’s Climate Crisis
07/07/2026
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced the start of ...

Extracting Good Mining Policy in Kyrgyzstan
05/07/2026
The critical minerals industry in Central Asia is at a crossroads and in Kyrgyzs...

Measuring and reflecting on Air Quality in Central Asia
04/14/2026
Across Central Asia, air quality in both cities and rural regions is shaped...

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...
