How a Burgeoning Industry in Kazakhstan Is Trying to Kickstart ‘Climate-Smart Beef’
December 22nd, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a look at how the central Asian country is working to scale up its livestock industry without adding to global emissions. Experts are skeptical. In 2010, several herds of cows airlifted from North Dakota to Kazakhstan helped spark a burgeoning cattle industry in the former USSR republic. The effort was part […]
Read more »‘Modern Silk Road’ brings booming trade to China-Kazakhstan border
December 9th, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, a look at the booming trade at the China-Kazakhstan border: Trade is thriving along the “modern Silk Road,” which passes through a far-flung city on the border of China and Kazakhstan. Khorgos is about 3,500 kilometers due west of Beijing in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Flying over the oil fields of […]
Read more »India-Kazakhstan Cooperation in Critical Minerals Signals a Shifting Regional Approach
November 27th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a report on growing India- Kazakh cooperation in critical minerals: The critical minerals sector has attracted significant global attention, including from New Delhi and Astana. On November 4, India and Kazakhstan partnered to produce titanium slag, a critical mineral. Indian Rare Earths Limited (IREL) and Kazakhstan’s Ust-Kamenogorsk Titanium and Magnesium Plant (UKTMP) […]
Read more »Turning Kazakhstan Into a Beef-Producing Machine, the American Way
November 26th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a look at Kazakhstan, a vast central Asian country which has millions of acres of pastureland. Can it produce steaks and burgers that offset emissions—and earn carbon credits for them? The highway running north toward the Russian border is long and straight, a black line streaking across a snowy flatness. A […]
Read more »Central Asia Investing in Itself
November 21st, 2024
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a look at how – while foreign investment has long been a focus for Central Asia – regional countries are now increasingly investing within the region itself: Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s visit to Astana in August 2024 marked the inaugural meeting of the Supreme Interstate Council of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. As both […]
Read more »Saudi Arabia Signs Major Green Energy Pact With Central Asian Nations
November 16th, 2024
Via Arab News, a report on Saudi Arabia’s new major green energy pact with Central Asian nations: Saudi Arabia has signed a joint executive program with Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan to strengthen collaboration on renewable energy development and transmission. The deal was signed on the sidelines of the 29th UN Climate Summit in Baku by […]
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