Civil society calls for COP17 in Yerevan to deliver for people and nature Ahead of the 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP17), which opens in Yerevan on 19 October, CAN EECCA held a press conference with leading Armenian voices on climate and biodiversity policy, on Tuesday, 6th October,…
This material was prepared as a result of the 2026 EECCA Youth Climate Policy Lab*, an online training programme organised by the Climate Action Network Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (CAN EECCA) with the support of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Archaeologists are concerned not only with ancient events, dating back hundreds or thousands of years.…
At the COP17 negotiations on combatting desertification (August 17–28, 2026) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, civil society saw an unprecedented attack on their rights to participation. Just like at recent climate summits, the language has shifted to implementation, — to tackle desertification, drought, and land degradation. But civil society has been ringing alarm bells about certain states…
The new “Electricity Now” initiative — dubbed “Electrification-35” — is shaping up to be one of the central themes at the upcoming 31st UN Climate Change Conference (COP31) in Antalya. Climate expert Alexey Kokorin, of the Nature and People Foundation and CAN EECCA’s representative to the CAN Policy Coordination Group, unpacked what lies behind the…
Two weeks of negotiations in Bonn (June 8–18, 2026) revealed the same pattern across nearly every agenda item: delegations readily agree on goals, then stall the moment the conversation turns to who will pay for them. No country openly denies the need to support vulnerable communities or workers losing their jobs as fossil fuels are…
Terms of Reference Facilitators of “Climate Dialogues” CAN EECCA is relaunching “Climate Dialogues” — a format of thematic working groups that will work on their topics throughout the year: exchanging experience, building ties between organizations across the region, and bringing their topics to the international level. We are looking for facilitators — one per working…
In May 2026, the 13th World Urban Forum (WUF13) was held in Baku — the first time the forum had ever come to our region. On the sidelines of the event, the SPECA Cities Forum — bringing together Almaty, Arkadag, Bishkek, Dushanbe, Ganja, and Samarkand — officially became fully operational. The idea is to turn…