ICARDA to develop Central Asia Climate Information Platform
Published on: April 20, 2019, Submitted by Sanobar Khudaybergenova on: April 19, 2019
By Spring 2020, an online information system will be developed to provide public high quality data on climate variability, with the aim of facilitating climate change adaptation and mitigation decision making in Central Asia.
The agreement was reached during the Central Asia Climate Change Conference in Tashkent.
Average annual temperatures across Central Asia since the mid 20th century have increased from 0.5°C in the south to 1.6°C in the north, making the region most vulnerable to climate change. Building resilience to climate’s mounting impacts like melting glaciers in uplands and droughts in lowlands has become a dire priority to reduce poverty and enhance prosperity in the region, about 60 percent of which consists of deserts.
To address climate challenges in Central Asia, ICARDA jointly with iMMAP will develop the Central Asia Climate Change Information Platform. The initiative will be carried out within the World Bank-supported project Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program for Aral Sea Basin (CAMP4ASB). The agreement was reached during the Central Asia Climate Change Conference held in Tashkent on 3-4 April 2019. CAMP4ASB is a five-years initiative led jointly by corresponding state agencies and CAREC, the Regional Environmetal Center for Central Asia.
By Spring 2020, an online information system will be developed to provide public high quality data on climate variability, with the aim of facilitating climate change adaptation and mitigation decision making in Central Asia. It will serve to help policy-makers, communities and civil society to access, analyze, and visualize public-domain data to enhance awareness and assessment of changing climate.
The platform will offer interfaces and tools for data visualization like GIS to layer data and map risks and hotspots, screening and modeling tools to support analysis for climate adaptation and mitigation.
Acknowledgement
Originally initiated as the Regional Program for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central Asia and Caucasus, ICARDA has been working in the region since 1998. The Program has been assisting the countries in developing the national research systems for sustainably increasing the productivity of crops and livestock through development, adoption and transfer of technologies; natural resource management, conservation strategies and socio-economic knowledge.
This blog originally appeared in http://cac-program.org/news/detail/531 and in original language: http://cac-program.org/ru/news/detail/532
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