Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, a major global wheat producer, suffered reduced crop yields from drought and fires. Flooding related to climate changes already hit the country with significant impacts. Climate change is projected to increase temperatures, extreme precipitation events and frequency and intensity of droughts, with consequences for agriculture and water management.

Changing climate is likely to alter the transmission of infectious diseases, increase mortality and morbidity from extreme weather events and reduced availability of clean water. Water scarcity also adversely affects food security and nutrition, particularly for subsistence farmers. The size of this impact is being assessed by the project.

Project country-specific activities to protect health from climate change

  • Assess health impact, vulnerability and health system adaptation
  • Develop a national health adaptation strategy
  • Build capacity in early identification and reporting of potential infectious disease risks and outbreaks to improve disease surveillance systems, especially on diseases sensitive to changes in climate, e.g. Crimean Congo fever
  • Improvement of emergency preparedness, with special regard to extreme weather events.

Contacts: Dr Aliya Kosbayeva, National Professional Officer, email: kosbayevaa@who.int

The project in Kazakhstan - Leaflet

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Kazakhstan - WHO country website

National reports submitted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)