• Be prepared : by reducing disaster and crises risk 

      Srivastava, Sanjay; Dubey, Sapna; Sarkar-Swaisgood, Madhurima (United Nations, 2022)

      Global warming of 2°C is likely to be exceeded during the twenty-first century. A warmer world would be riskier not only in terms of more frequent extreme weather and climate, but also the experience of systemic ...

    • A climate resilient energy sector in the Kyrgyz Republic : action plan and policy recommendations framework 

      Chepelianskaia, Olga; Sarkar-Swaisgood, Madhurima (United Nations, 2022-01)
      The Kyrgyz Republic is the third most vulnerable country to climate change impacts in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (UNDP, 2013). Climate change and extreme weather events annually cost the country’s economy 1% to ...
    • A climate resilient ICT sector in the Mongolia : action plan and policy recommendations framework 

      Chepelianskaia, Olga; Sarkar-Swaisgood, Madhurima (United Nations, 2022-01)

      Information communication and technology (ICT) is an important and rapidly emerging sector of the Mongolian economy (ESCAP, 2019). Between 2017 and 2018, the number of mobile telecommunication subscribers in the ...

    • A climate resilient transport sector in the Kazakhstan : action plan and policy recommendations framework 

      Chepelianskaia, Olga; Sarkar-Swaisgood, Madhurima (United Nations, 2022-01)
      Kazakhstan is strategically located at the intersection between Europe and Asia. The transport sector plays a key role in the country’s economy and contributes to over 9% of its GDP. The sector includes roads, railways, ...
    • Kazakhstan climate change and disaster risk profile 

      Chepelianskaia, Olga; Sarkar-Swaisgood, Madhurima (United Nations, 2022)

      Kazakhstan is the largest landlocked country in the world. It is an upper-middle-income country with a population of 18.7 million. Nursultan (capital) and Almaty are the country’s major ...

    • Kyrgyz Republic climate change and disaster risk profile 

      Chepelianskaia, Olga; Sarkar-Swaisgood, Madhurima (United Nations, 2022-01)

      The Kyrgyz Republic is a land-locked, lower-middle-income country with a population of approximately 6.5 million (World Food Program, 2020). Bishkek (the capital) and Osh are the major cities of the country. According ...

    • Mongolia climate change and disaster risk profile 

      Chepelianskaia, Olga; Sarkar-Swaisgood, Madhurima (United Nations, 2022-01)

      Mongolia is a land-locked country sharing its borders with the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation. It has a population of 3.3 million, nearly 2/3 of which lives in the capital, Ulaanbaatar. While ...