🇰🇿Kazakhstan

In a small Almaty industrial park, a firm that began shredding office electronics in 2009 now turns spent lithium-ion batteries into black mass in what Almaty officials call the only such plant in Central Asia.

Altyn Dala restores Kazakhstan's grassland steppe and protects migratory saiga antelope through anti-poaching and habitat corridors.

Forty turbines on the Zhambyl steppe form Central Asia's largest wind farm, cutting hundreds of thousands of tons of CO2 a year in a coal-dependent grid.

Almaty Air Initiative, a private foundation set up in 2024, secret-shops vehicle inspections and tests fuel at the city's biggest petrol stations to show where the smog comes from.