News and press releases

A five-day training workshop on the promotion of green economy principles, sustainable development and energy efficiency was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe and concluded on 13 October 2017.

VIENNA, 11 October 2017- The OSCE Secretariat in Vienna has recently started using electricity which is 100% derived from renewable energy sources. Wien Energie, the main energy supplier to the Austrian capital, is awarding today the OSCE with a certificate to mark this achievement...

ANDORRA LA VELLA, 3 October 2017 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 2017 Autumn Meeting, bringing together some 180 parliamentarians from across the OSCE’s 57 participating States, opened today in Andorra with addresses by the OSCE PA President, and the Speaker of Parliament and Prime Minister of Andorra...

Dushanbe, 28 September 2017 – A four-day OSCE regional workshop on explosive hazards reduction and response, organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, concluded today in Dushanbe. The event, hosted by the Tajikistan National Mine Action Centre, gathered 32 military and civilian experts from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan as well as representatives from international NGOs such as Small Arms Survey and Norwegian People’s Aid.

VIENNA, 25 September 2017 – Young green entrepreneurs making a social impact in the Mediterranean region were officially invited to compete for the new OSCE GEMS Award launched today in Vienna by the Chairperson of the Mediterranean Contact Group, Permanent Representative of Italy to the OSCE Ambassador Alessandro Azzoni...

An OSCE-supported workshop on the OSCE best practices in applying green construction standards and technologies to produce environmentally friendly buildings and sustainable cities started on 21 September 2017 in Astana.

The eighth annual OSCE-supported Central Asian Leadership Programme (CALP) on Environment for Sustainable Development concluded on 19 September 2017 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...