Professor Elena Korosteleva was invited to give a talk on 'Why we should think 'Resilience' when we talk about Green Transitions?' to the CAPTURED project organised by Warwick's Policy Lab. Elena focused on understanding the Anthropocene through the lens of a VUCA-world and complexity-thinking, and why we need to understand resilience as a way of living, relating, and managing complex life. Green transitions - whichever ways we think of them - will not happen if we 1) don't have a holistic approach; 2) don't change our thinking & behaviour; and 3) don't facilitate agential change, through nurturing resilience as political agency.

Professor Korosteleva was invited to contribute a piece on resilience to the strategic volume of Key Concepts for the Future of the EU, published by the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS), 3 March 2025. The volume came together at the request of policy-makers, and covers key themes that the EU and global leadership will work with in 2025+, including geopolitics, resilience, security, democracy etc. It offers innovative and creative perspectives, to ensure that the challenges posited by complex geopolitics and the Anthropocene, are adequately considered, going forward. It is available for a free download.

Dr Aijan SharshenovaLink opens in a new window, SHAPEDEM-EULink opens in a new window Research Fellow, co-authored (with a Harvard University Research Fellow Dr Rahat Sabyrbekov) a large report on opportunities and barriers to introducing carbon pricing in the Kyrgyz Republic in Central Asia. The report employs mixed methods to estimate the possibility and the extent of difficulty to introduce such climate mitigation mechanism in a land-locked lower income country. The report is funded by the CAREC InstituteLink opens in a new window's research grant and is available online at https://www.carecinstitute.org/publications/exploring-carbon-pricing-in-central-asia-new-insights-from-the-kyrgyz-republic/

Dr. Aijan Sharshenova, SHAPEDEM-EU research fellow, published a co-authored blog post on the future of carbon pricing (carbon tax) in the Kyrgyz Republic. This publication is a part of a research project funded by Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program established by the Asian Development Bank.

The blog post can be accessed the CAREC Institute's website at https://www.carecinstitute.org/carbon-pricing-in-the-kyrgyz-republic-a-path-to-sustainable-development-and-climate-resilience/

Call for Papers - 2025 CTTN Research Grants Program: Envisioning a Greener Future: Crafting Strategic Financing Pathways for the Green Transition in CAREC Region

- submit grant application along with the draft proposal (maximum 5,000 words, excluding references).

- Successful applicants will receive grants of up to US$5,000 to expand their manuscripts into full policy research papers.

- The research grant is for nearly six months from the date of grant approval.

- Deadline is 1 April 2025; announcement of results on 15 April 2025.

https://www.carecinstitute.org/news/call-for-papers-2025-cttn-research-grants-program-envisioning-a-greener-future-crafting-strategic-financing-pathways-for-the-green-transition-in-carec-region/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIAS3xleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHTaF9fP_wRZbSgeorXgIHPnOCYhpZ8T7kZABlJ-zW0O8m0BLXdDAx4xsWA_aem_OU_8EPU7LykaZRXGMVcXvA.