This blog provides a broad overview of climate change science and policy at COP26 and beyond. It aims to inform policy makers, government officials, private sector and public at large in the countries from Central Asia of the state of climate change from scientific and policy perspective with focus on IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) and lessons from COP26 that took place in November, 2021 in Glasgow, the United Kingdom (UK).

The blog explains how through the IPCC reports climate change science is driving policy and legislation at the international level and is enabling consensus building among the Governments at key climate summits known as Conference of the Parties (COPs) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The blog further explains how three countries from Central Asia, namely Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are responding to the challenges of climate change and join the international effort to fight climate emergency in this critical decade.