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OSCE Mission to Montenegro and the Environmental Movement ‘Ozone’ to hold concluding panel discussion for School of Ecological Activism
PODGORICA, 22 June 2012 – “Think differently, act environmentally” – the role of parliamentary political parties in promoting environmental protection in Montenegro is the topic of the closing panel discussion under the OSCE-supported School of Ecological Activism taking place in Podgorica on Monday...
OSCE Mediterranean partners discuss environment and security
AMMAN, 18 June 2012 – Water scarcity, land degradation, climate change, energy security and the role of the civil society are the focus of a three-day workshop that started today in Amman, organized by the OSCE Office of the Co-ordinator for Economic and Environmental Activities and the Jordanian government...
OSCE Mission and Australian Embassy donate police dogs to Montenegro to help fight environmental crime
PODGORICA, 15 June 2012 – The handover ceremony of two police dogs trained to detect explosives used for illegal fishing will take place in the Police Training Camp in Podgorica on Monday...
OSCE-funded inspection boat and water-sampling platform launched to protect Dniester/Nistru River
A boat for fisheries inspectors and a water sampling platform on the Dniester/Nistru River were formally handed over to authorities in Moldova by representatives of the OSCE and its partner organizations, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), at a ceremony on 8 June 2012... ()
OSCE Centre in Astana celebrates World Environment Day
On the occasion of the 2012 World Environment Day on 5 June, staff of the OSCE Centre in Astana planted shrubs in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The theme of the 2012 World Environmental Day is “Green economy: does it include you?” The event was organized by the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia to raise awareness of environmental risks and ecological scarcities... ()
OSCE supports workshop on cross-border gas trade in Ashgabat
ASHAGABAT, 1 June 2012 – Energy diplomacy and key principles and concepts of cross-border gas trade were the topics of an OSCE-supported workshop that concluded in Ashgabat today... ()
OSCE Centre in Astana helps to enhance water co-operation
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 29 May 2012 – Sixty policy and decision makers, legal and technical experts, and academia and non-governmental organizations representatives from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia are taking part in a workshop on groundwater management which started today in Almaty... ()
OSCE awards grants to projects in Azerbaijan addressing environment and security issues
The OSCE Office in Baku awarded on 29 May 2012 grants to four civil society organizations for projects they will run in the field of environment and security... ()
OSCE Mission to join ‘Let’s Do It Kosovo’ clean up campaign
PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 24 May 2012 – On the occasion of World Clean Up Day today, the OSCE Mission in Kosovo will support the “Let’s Do it Kosovo” clean-up campaign, part of the global movement “Let’s do it World”...
Access to information, public participation in decision making, access to justice on environmental matters in focus at OSCE-supported forum in Kazakhstan
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 22 May 2012 – A two-day sub-regional conference on the implementation of the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (the Aarhus Convention) started today in Almaty... ()