Kazakh National Agrarian University hosted its II International Forum "Dialogue of Young Scientists: Science Talks" on June 10th in Almaty. This year's conference was held online due to the outbreaks of Covid-19. Young researchers and scientists from all over the world participated to present results and exchange information on their current research. The forums aim was to combine efforts to tackle global issues such as climate adaptation. Moritz Koza, PhD student of the ReKKS project, joined the discussion and presented a talk with the title: "Effects of land-use transformation on wind erosion in the dry steppes of Kazakhstan".