Kyrgyzstan has proposed an international programme to develop organic farming and protect soil carbon in mountain countries, presenting it at the COP31 UN climate conference in Antalya, reported Trend.
The initiative, “Organic Territories of Mountain Countries – Carbon Potential of Soils and Ecosystems, Climate and Food Security”, would run from 2027 to 2032. Deputy Minister of Water Resources, Agriculture and Processing Industry Mirbek Duisheev introduced it at a side event on November 10. Representatives of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Kyrgyz Association of Land and Forest Users and farmers’ organisations from Asia also spoke.
The programme would bring together mountain nations, international organisations, scientists and financial institutions. It envisages pilot organic territories, a climate monitoring system to measure how much carbon soils and ecosystems store, and funding from international climate funds and investors. “Mountain countries are uniquely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change,” the Kyrgyz delegation said.
Kyrgyzstan also confirmed that it will host the Second Global Mountain Summit, Bishkek+25, on October 21–23, 2027. Mountains cover about 90% of Kyrgyzstan’s territory, and the country has made mountain issues a priority of its diplomacy. On its initiative, the UN General Assembly declared 2023–2027 the “Five Years of Action for the Development of Mountain Regions”. With glaciers in the Tian Shan and Pamir retreating fast, Bishkek is trying to make mountain countries a recognised group in climate negotiations and climate finance.
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November 11, 2026