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Dushanbe, Tajikistan, November 17, 2022 – The event “Integrated Land and Water management for Ecosystem-based Adaptation to climate change impacts” was organized in Sharm el-Sheikh, Arab Republic of Egypt. This event became a part of broader Tajikistan’s Pavilion activities, organized by the Committee for Environmental Protection on the sidelines of the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change with support of development partners, including UNDP in Tajikistan.

The event was opened by Mr. Kurbonzoda Abdullo, the Head of the Agency for Hydrometeorology of the Committee for Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan and Mr. Turakul Murodov, the representative of the Committee for Environmental Protection. Mr. Giyosiddin Nemonov, the Manager of “An integrated landscape approach to enhancing the climate resilience of small-scale farmers and pastoralists in Tajikistan” project made a presentation on the importance of the integrated natural resource management to achieve sustainable adaptation to the impacts of climate change, and shared the results already gained by the project though adopting ecosystem restoration approach.

Representatives of national agencies and international development partners, including the Adaptation Fund and UNDP, were able to discuss the issues of extreme weather events which nowadays took the form of abnormal heat, floods and forest fires, and became an everyday reality of our lives. In this regard, this side event provided an excellent opportunity to share experiences, best practices and solutions to climate change adaptation and mitigation, and the visions of how these efforts could accelerate sustainable development.

The project “An integrated landscape approach to enhancing the climate resilience of small-scale farmers and pastoralists in Tajikistan” is funded by the Adaptation Fund and implemented by the Committee for Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme. The overall objective of the project is to enhance the livelihoods of the small-scale farmers and pastoralists living in the Kofarnighan River Basin and increase their resilience to future climate change implications.
 

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