Central Asia is not yet a fully coordinated regional actor on climate and water, but it is starting to behave like one in ...

Inger Andersen, UNEP Executive Director, urged Central Asia to unite on regional cooperation, cut methane, and protect ...

Central Asian countries have united at the inaugural Regional Ecological Summit, where they launched new regional ...

Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are committing billions to mining, nuclear power, data centers and AI infrastructure at the same ...

The region needs a new multilateral framework to promote economic integration and limit dependence on external powers.

Leaders from five Central Asian nations have agreed to launch their first regional partnership on the circular economy, alongside initiatives on glaciers, biodiversity, climate action, and air ...

The Regional Ecological Summit 2026 (RES 2026), held in Astana, Kazakhstan from 22–24 April, marked a critical milestone for ...

The NLI report recommends that Central Asia scale back plans to add hydropower capacity, in particular rethinking ...

The United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) hosted a Regional Tabletop Exercise (TTX) in Tashkent, ...

The Joint Plan of Action for Central Asia was adopted at a high-level meeting held on 30 November 2011 by the States of Central Asia. An updated version of the JPoA was adopted on 3 March 2022. It is ...

Central Asia’s nations cannot expect their economic reforms to succeed without advances toward democracy. The United States’ engagement with Central Asia has gone through several phases—from the ...

Both regions have more in common and more to learn from each other than meets the eye. The states of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) have recently been ...