News and press releases

A working group meeting on environmental protection under the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Chu-Talas Water Commission (Commission) took place on 18 November 2021 in Almaty. The meeting was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan (POiN) and the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek (POiB) in close co-operation with the Commission.

Kazakhstan’s part of the working group on environmental protection under the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Chu-Talas Water Commission (Commission) held a meeting on 12 November 2021 in Almaty. The meeting was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan in co-operation with the Commission and the Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan.

The winners of the OSCE-supported green office contest were announced on 22 October 2021 in Nur-Sultan. The contest provided an opportunity for government institutions, private companies, civil society and international organizations to promote sustainable use of resources by focusing on waste reduction and recycling.

A roundtable discussion on the concept of the planned Water Code concluded on October 1, 2021 in Aktau, Mangystau province. The two-day event was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan in partnership with the Water Resources Committee of the Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources Ministry of Kazakhstan.

An OSCE-supported three-day seminar on water governance and climate security in Central Asia concluded on 29 September 2021 in Almaty. The event was attended by some 30 young civil servants, students and representatives of government organizations responsible for climate change policy and water resources management in Central Asia and Afghanistan.

An OSCE-supported online seminar on water treatment and sanitation in Kazakhstan took place on 22 September 2021. Some 40 representatives of local administrations, project engineers, non-governmental organizations and the private sector from the Aktobe, Karaganda and Turkestan regions participated in the event...

On 18 September 2021, the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan handed over a specialized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to Altyn-Emel national park. The handover took place at the park administration’s headquarters in Baschi village, the Almaty region and included the official signing of a donation agreement.