caucasus climate

A DW Akademie Workshop Magazine

We must adapt to changes
in the climate...
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DW Akademie in cooperation with Internews Armenia 10-21 June, 2013


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Freak weather and a lack of resources

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DROUGHT worries IN ARARAT VALLEY

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Ecological Migration - a general problem
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Land abandoned in Georgia and Armenia

as villagers seek a better life abroad.

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Yerevan downtown is now littered with
a chain of cafes and an ever-increasing
number of high-rise buildings that
transform places where city parks and
vitally important green spaces used to
be.

Changes in Green Spaces,Yerevan

(Source: Transparency International anti-corruption centre)

n Armenia, urban development

standards say there should be 25
square metres of green space per
inhabitant. But this is not the case
in Yerevan, Armenias capital. Each
inhabitant of Yerevan only has 3.6 sq.
metres of green space. This contrasts
with the situation in Madrid where
its 68 sq. metres per person, while
Amsterdam in the Netherlands has
36 sq. metres of green space for each
inhabitant.

Yerevan was very different 30 years

ago says Hakob Sanasarian, Chairman
of the Greens Union of Armenia. Back
then Yerevan was a real place to live
in. It is not only that the environment

and more dust in the air, while less

green space in the city means there are
fewer trees to filter vehicle exhausts and
industrial emissions.
The centre of Yerevan has become
an environmental disaster zone, says
Karineh Danielian, the chairwoman of
the For Sustainable Development NGO.
Shrinking green spaces means that the
air quality gets affected. The country
loses its green spaces and develops a
dry, semi-desert climate.
Statistics indicate that the green
umbrella of the country is rapidly
getting smaller.
Green spaces are the lungs of the
Earth, and as we destroy them we close
her airways and make her sick says
Kieran Cooke, an Irish journalist and
a climate change expert. It does not
matter if it is Yerevan or any other city
or country, because everyone should be
responsible for the planet Earth.

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Armenias environment started changing

rapidly in the early 1990s, when an
energy crisis caused massive tree cutting
for fuelwood purposes - resulting in
a loss of whole forested areas. Then,
soon after the energy crisis, commercial
logging in the countrys forests started
on a grand scale.

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gets destroyed, it has become

uninhabitable, says Sanasarian.
Public health and environment experts
say the way the city has developed has
resulted in a double blow - to both the
environment and public health. The
cutting of trees results in soil erosion

The plan is to ensure 19 sq.metres of

green space per person by 2020, says
the municipality of Yerevan. But the
illustration and figures shown below,
compiled by various environmental
NGOs, would seem to indicate
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ENERGY SOLUTION OR PROBLEM?

HPPs are springing up

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Contributors
to Caucasus Climate
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Black
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Sukhum(i)

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Yerevan

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caucasus climate

A DW Akademie Workshop Magazine

DW Akademie in cooperation with Internews Armenia
With financial support from the Federal Ministry for
Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Editors: Kieran Cooke, Bettina Ruigies

M eri

Reporters: Satenik Abrahamyan, Kristine Aghalaryan,

Marianna Kotova, Armine Narinyan, Meri Sogomonyan,
Olga Tsiskarishvili-Soselia, Irina Yanovskaya, Ani
Yeghiazaryan, Tigran Zareyan, Lasha Zarginava
Design & Layout: Natalie Harutyunyan
Sources of maps, artwork & photography:
GRID-Arendal / UNEP, Vecteezy, Easyvectors,
Stock.XCHNG
As of: 21 June, 2013