Uzhydromet has prepared a plan for the development of climate services for insurers, businesses and authorities

Uzhydromet, the state hydrometeorological service, together with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has developed an action plan and a business model for such services. Both documents were discussed with their future users; the next step is to adopt the plan and begin implementing it, reports UzDaily, citing UNDP.

The gist in brief

• "Climate services" is the provision of hydrometeorological information to those who need it for decisions: government agencies, insurance companies, the private sector, and the public.
• An action plan for implementing the NFCS, designed for up to four years, and a business model for Uzhydromet's services are ready.
• Demand is growing: in the first half of 2026, 68 requests came from insurance companies, more than in all of 2025 (48).
• The plan has not yet been adopted; the project is financed by the Green Climate Fund.

What this means in simple terms

Hydrometeorological data is provided by Uzhydromet. Beyond specialists, it is needed by government agencies, insurance companies, the private sector, and the public, and demand for it is growing. The framework is meant to streamline which services the agency provides and to whom. The business model is a description of how such services are organized. The term itself is not explained in detail in the material, and the details of the business model are not disclosed.

Where demand is growing

Uzhydromet provides data on inquiries. In 2025, there were 48 requests from insurance companies, 19 from the Ministry of Emergency Situations, 12 from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and 132 from other organizations. In the first half of 2026, there were 68 from insurers, 4 from the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and 74 from other organizations. There is no data for the Ministry of Internal Affairs for 2026. The insurance market's interest has grown most noticeably.

Who is involved

The project is supported by the Green Climate Fund, and within the framework of UNDP, work is underway to modernize early warning systems. The authors of the UNDP blog are the head of the hydrometeorological support department at Uzhydromet, Khusan Tursunov, and the project's climate risk expert, Alexander Merkushkin. The material does not contain exact start and end dates for the plan's implementation.

What this means for Kazakhstan

In Kazakhstan, hydrometeorological data also informs decisions, but there are questions about its quality. The flood forecasting system Tasqyn, whose data is supplied by Kazhydromet according to the ministry, classified 182 settlements as high flood-risk zones in 2025. In reality, 16 were flooded, and only 14 of them were in the forecasts, while the system's accuracy criteria have not been publicly disclosed. The Green Climate Fund, which supports the Uzbek project, is also involved in Kazakh ones: under the Readiness III program, about $1 million is planned for the national climate investment platform, but these funds are still under discussion.

Author's conclusion

For now, these are prepared documents rather than a working system: the action plan has not been adopted, and no amounts or targets have been named. But the growth in requests from insurers shows that weather data is acquiring an interested consumer. The test will be the adoption of the plan and what services Uzhydromet begins to provide and on what terms.