Water-related climate hazards and adaptation measures in Kazakhstan

This report identifies the three most important hazards: droughts, floods, and heatwaves. It presents the probability of occurrence and severity of these hazards under different climate change (SSP) scenarios until 2100 as well as potential adaptation measures.

Kazakhstan is increasingly vulnerable to water-related climate hazards due to water scarcity, dependency on transboundary water sources, and an increasing risk of flooding driven by extreme rainfall in mountainous regions and melting of glaciers. To assist the replication of this analysis by practitioners, the report describes the methodology of identifying these hazards, collecting data, and simulating their future probability of occurrence.