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In
Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, melting glaciers are
causing glacial lake outbursts and landslides.
Lake Sevan is losing water due to years of
overuse and poor management. Belarus may lose
its only national horse breed. In
Ust-Kamenogorsk, authorities are inspecting
areas contaminated with radioactive waste.
Globally, BRICS countries are demanding that
wealthy nations pay for climate action, the UN
Special Rapporteur calls for an urgent phase-out
of fossil fuels, and the U.S. is preparing to
roll back its environmental agenda.
New opportunities for
activists are listed at the end of this
issue.
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The
government has adopted a State Target Program
for the Just Transition of Ukraine’s Coal
Regions, which aims to support coal communities
in the process of the country’s transition away
from coal in electricity generation, which will
last until 2035. Although the war has slowed
down these processes, the Program was adopted
following its Concept, which the government
approved back in 2021. The adoption of this
Program is a significant event, both for
Ukraine’s coal communities and for environmental
protection, so Ecoaction congratulates everyone
involved on this victory.
A new stage of
addressing historical radioactive pollution has
begun in the regional center of East Kazakhstan.
The issue of radioactive hotspots in
Ust-Kamenogorsk traces back to industrial
activities in the mid-20th century. During the
rapid expansion of the uranium industry, the
city hosted tailings storage facilities,
technical bases, and warehouses containing
radioactive materials. Some of these sites
remain potentially hazardous
today.
By 2050, Uzbekistan may
lose up to $5 billion per year due to the
growing impact of climate change. This estimate
comes from a national report published in June
2024. The study was prepared by Uzbekistan’s
Ministry of Ecology and the State Center for
Climate Change.
The ecosystem of
Armenia’s largest lake has severely deteriorated
over recent decades due to poor resource
management and exploitative practices.
Meanwhile, the Sevan basin plays a critical role
in the surrounding environment — and contributes
to the country’s energy, agriculture, industry,
and tourism sectors.
Takyr-Tor is not a
permanent lake — it forms approximately every
15–16 years. Two previous overflows were
recorded in 1994 and 2004.
The Belarusian draught
horse, the country’s only national breed, is
under threat. Only around 200 breeding mares and
fewer than 27 stallions remain. Strict
regulations prevent private owners from
participating in breeding without legal status
and formal certification. Experts call for
urgent legal reforms to save the
breed.
According to
meteorologists, rapid glacier melt is increasing
the risk of mudflows and flooding in the basins
of the Pyanj, Zarafshan, and Vakhsh
rivers.
The government of the
Republic of Moldova has launched Casa Verde, a
new national grant program aimed at improving
energy efficiency in residential homes. The
program targets Moldovan families with at least
one minor child, who own individual houses and
have no outstanding debts to the state
budget.
The accident occurred
in early June, when a vessel struck an
underwater obstacle, suffered a breach, and
partially sank. As a result, around 30 tons of
diesel fuel leaked into the river. According to
the environmental watchdog, the spill
contaminated over 960,000 square meters of water
surface.
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Leaders of the BRICS
group of developing nations addressed the shared
challenges of global warming on Monday, the
final day of their summit in Rio de Janeiro,
demanding that wealthy nations fund mitigation
of greenhouse gas emissions in poorer nations.
In his
opening remarks, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio
Lula da Silva, who will host the United Nations
climate summit in November, also blasted
denialism of the climate emergency, indirectly
criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's
decision to pull his country out of the 2015
Paris Agreement.
The present report
clarifies States’ international human rights
obligations and businesses’ responsibilities to
phase out fossil fuels and related subsidies
within the current decade. The interlinked,
intergenerational, severe and widespread human
rights impacts of the fossil fuel life cycle,
coupled with six decades of climate obstruction,
compel urgent defossilization of our whole
economies, for a just transition that is
effective, human rights-based and transformative
in protecting the climate, nature, water and
food on which life and health for present and
future generations depend.
Trump’s legislation
will hurt clean energy, boost fossil fuels and
end investment in environmental justice. Climate
advocates vow to continue the fight.
In the
end, President Donald Trump’s giant tax and
spending plan rocketed past both fiscal hawks
and social moderates in the House with no
changes on Thursday. The 887-page legislation
largely erases the landmark investment in
cleaner energy, jobs and communities that a
Democratic-led Congress made only three years
ago in the Inflation Reduction
Act.
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Deadline:
31-Jul-25
This call for projects
is launched in partnership with European Union
to support initiatives in Central Asia to
safeguard cultural heritage in the face of
climate change and disasters (fire, flooding),
and in support of social inclusion and economic
growth.
The Climate Technology
Initiative (CTI PFAN) provides financing for
projects related to climate and clean energy.
Applications are accepted from projects
implemented in low- and middle-income countries,
including Eastern Europe, Central Asia, South
and Southeast Asia, the Caribbean and Central
America, the Pacific Islands, and Sub-Saharan
Africa.
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From: CAN EECCA <dig...@caneecca.org>Date: вт, 8 июл.
2025 г. в 17:30 Subject: 🌍 CAN EECCA Newsletter: BRICS, Melting
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