On March 19, during an online event, representatives from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, with experts from the Universities of Fribourg and Zurich, and representatives of the UNESCO Regional Office in Almaty, discussed the lessons from the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP 2025) with the joint implementation of the Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences (DACS 2025–2034).

During an interactive panel discussion, Co-Director of the Central Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences Bolot Moldobekov reported about methods for monitoring and studying glaciers and snow cover changes in Kyrgyzstan.