Central Asia is among the world’s most vulnerable regions to natural hazards and climate-induced challenges, including earthquakes, floods, droughts, avalanches, and landslides. Over the past decade, these disasters have claimed thousands of lives and impacted millions of people across Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. With the added pressure of climate change disrupting ecosystems, water […]
Turkmenistan Takes Steps to Make Cities More Sustainable
The achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 11 provides for the solution of several tasks – to ensure universal access to safe and affordable housing, to use safe, inexpensive and environmentally sustainable transport and access to safe, green areas open to all, as well as the creation of a comfortable and attractive environment for living and […]
Ashgabat and the Avaza Tourist Zone in Turkmenistan continue to introduce sustainable city concepts
The long-term project “Sustainable Cities” of the Ministry of Environment of Turkmenistan and UNDP/GEF, with a large financial base and opportunities, based on the potential of a team of professional environmentalists and energy experts, can be called both climate mitigation, energy efficient, institutional and waste development. Progress in the implementation of project activities is regularly […]
Sustainable Cities for Green Future – Interview with Ms.Narine Sahakyan, resident representative of UNDP in Turkmenistan
(on the occasion of the World Cities Day – 31 October) The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been cooperating with the Government of Turkmenistan for over 25 years, being the country’s largest international development partner. One of the important areas of your partnership with the Government focuses on environmental protection and combatting the climate […]