The EGU24 General Assembly took place from 14th to 19th of April and welcomed more than 20 000 attendees from 116 countries. It brings together geoscientists from all over the world to discuss their research and ideas.
Paula Romanovska presented her work on climate impact attribution for the agricultural sector in Kazakhstan and discussed the method and results with the climate attribution research community present in Vienna. The presented paper quantifies the impact of human-induced climate change on the wheat production in northern Kazakhstan. The results show that human-induced climate change, and explicitly increases in daily-minimum temperatures and extreme heat, have had a critical impact on wheat production, decreasing yields between 2000 and 2019 by around 6.2 to 8.2%, increasing the likelihood of low-production events by 2.1 to 3 times, and leading to economic losses of 119 to 158 million USD per year.
More information on the presentation can be found here.
