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OSCE supports awareness raising workshops on Environmental Impact Assessment and Strategic Environmental Assessment in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 2 April 2021
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
An OSCE-supported three-day online awareness-raising workshop on effective implementation of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) in line with the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on EIA, also known as Espoo Convention and its Protocol on SEA, concluded on 2 April 2021...
OSCE 2020 Aarhus Centres Annual Meeting focuses on environmental democracy, gender mainstreaming and sustainable development
Publishing date: 11 November 2020
The 2020 Aarhus Centres Annual Meeting, held online on 10 and 11 November 2020, brought together Aarhus Centres representatives, National Focal Points to the Aarhus Convention, representatives of non-governmental organizations, international organizations and the OSCE field operations...
OSCE supports online training seminar on filling out and using Pollutant Release Transfer Register in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 19 August 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
An OSCE-supported online training seminar on the filling out and use of the Protocol on the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) for some 45 private and civil sector representatives in the Karaganda region took place on 18 August 2020...
OSCE and Aarhus Centre Sarajevo conclude Environmental Legal Clinics Programme in Sarajevo
Publishing date: 13 December 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Environmental activities
SARAJEVO, 13 December 2019 –The Environmental Legal Clinics Programme, organized by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Aarhus Centre Sarajevo, concluded today in Sarajevo. Twenty students from the universities of Sarajevo and Istočno Sarajevo were awarded certificates for their participation...
OSCE supports workshop on judicial application of environmental legislation in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 25 November 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan supported a workshop on the application of environmental legislation and compliance with the provisions of the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention) on 25 November 2019 in Semey, Eastern Kazakhstan...
OSCE-supported fourth Aarhus Centre in Kyrgyzstan opens in Naryn
Publishing date: 8 November 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Environmental activities
The fourth Aarhus Centre in Kyrgyzstan officially opened on 5 November 2019 in Naryn. The new Centre is part of the co-operation between the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek and the University of Central Asia.
OSCE hosts 2019 Aarhus Centres Annual Meeting
Publishing date: 17 October 2019
The 2019 Aarhus Centres Annual Meeting concluded on 17 October 2019today in Vienna...
OSCE supports roundtable discussion on environmental public hearings in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 4 October 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
The OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on conducting and monitoring public hearings as a tool for public participation in environmental decision-making in the Karaganda region took place on 3 October 2019 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan...
Aarhus Centres identify avenues for promoting the transition to Green Economy and Resource Efficiency in Armenia at an OSCE-supported workshop in Yerevan
Publishing date: 26 July 2019
Promoting a green economy and resource efficiency was the focus of a workshop held in Yerevan, on 24 and 25 July by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA). The event was organized in co-operation with the Government of Armenia.
OSCE starts 2019 Issyk-Kul Lake clean-up campaigns in collaboration with local communities
Publishing date: 19 July 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Environmental activities
The OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek on 19 July 2019 launched the first of four clean-up campaigns at Issyk-Kul Lake, in Kyrgyzstan, as an integral part of a roundtable discussion on the importance of the involvement of public institutions and society, and public awareness on environmental issues. The discussion is taking place in Chok-Tal village and organized by the Issyk-Kul Aarhus Centre, the Clean Issyk-Kul Public Foundation, and the Chon-Sary-Oy ayil local authority with support of the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek...