The Fourth Central Asia Climate Change Conference (CACCC-2021) will be held on July 26-27, 2021, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The conference will be conducted as a mix of in-person and virtual meetings.
The objective of the conference is to strengthen the regional dialogue, information and knowledge exchange in order to support climate-resilient evidence-based decision-making systems, as well as to explore the possibilities to ensure the synergy in climate projects implementation between international finance organizations and the development agencies in Central Asia.
A series of our publications will be dedicated to the speakers and moderators of the upcoming event. And, today, we would like to introduce you to Torsten Brezina, a cluster coordinator at GIZ. He will be a speaker at a thematic session of CACCC-2021 dedicated to climate financing.
Starting from 2017, Mr. Torsten is a Cluster Coordinator Regional Programmes in Central Asia.
Before the appointment as a Cluster Coordinator Regional Programmes in Central Asia, he worked in the following positions:
August 2017 - December 2018: Program director for Sustainable and Climate Sensitive Land Use for Economic Development in Central Asia
August 2014 – July 2017: Country Director, Head of GIZ Programmes in Uzbekistan
August 2009 – July 2014: GIZ Programme Director «Support of German Minorities in Russian Federation; Director of the Russian – German House in Moscow, Russia
January 2007 – July 2009: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Responsible person for implementing of programmes «HIV/AID's prevention in Eastern Europe» and «Healthcare reform with the accent on HIV/AID's prevention in Ukraine»
January 2004 – Dec. 2006: GTZ, Director of an educational center in the Russian – German House in Moscow
June 2001 – Dec. 2006: GTZ, Programme Coordinator «Support of German Minorities in former Soviet Union's Countries
March 2000 – June 2001: djo – German Youth in Europe, Federal Union, Bonn, Executive Director
March 1999 – March 2000: Technical University of Dresden Research officer of EU project «INCO-Copernicus», analysis of attitude to drugs among youth in Ukraine, Spain, Germany, and Russia.
As for his academic achievements, he completed the «Sociologist and pedagogue» program with Technical University of Dresden, Germany, and «Education for adults» program with University named after Carl Francensa, Graz.
Stay tuned for further updates to know about other interesting speakers of the CACCC-2021.
