Climate risk and adaptation country profile: Vulnerability, risk reduction, and adaptation to climate change: Kyrgyz Republic
This paper profiles the vulnerability, risk reduction, and adaptation to climate change of the Kyrgyz Republic. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, climate change will adversely impact agricultural productivity in the Kyrgz Republic and is likely to lead to decreased water supply, increase the frequency, magnitude, and intensity of extreme weather events, damage ecosystems, and jeopardize the health of the local populations. Mountainous regions, lowlands, glacier areas, and the country’s limited arable lands are all going to be impacted significantly. Understanding these dynamics in the future will be instrumental to supporting the country’s adaptation strategies.
The paper identifies adaptation measures required for building the resilience of people and sectors. These include:
- Technological improvements, including the alteration of plant cultivation and cattle-breeding regional priorities;
- economic mechanisms, Development of a crop insurance program to reduce the risk of income loss caused by increased climate variability; and
- state support to development and implementation of early warning systems as well as of improved daily and seasonal weather forecasts amoung others.