News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE launches green technology workshops for women entrepreneurs in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 13 April 2017
Some 25 women entrepreneurs from rural areas of the Akmola Region took part in the first in a series of three OSCE-supported training seminars on the application of green technologies in Arnasai, a village near Astana, on 13 April 2017...
OSCE works with energy ministry to introduce strategic environmental assessment in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 6 April 2017
ASTANA, 6 April 2017 – An OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on introducing the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) in Kazakhstan began today in Astana, Kazakhstan...
OSCE PA’s economic and environmental committee Chair alarmed by U.S. backsliding on climate policies
Publishing date: 29 March 2017
COPENHAGEN, 29 March 2017 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s economic and environment committee Chair Nilza Sena (MP, Portugal) today expressed concerns about U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order Tuesday to ease restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. She emphasized that this represents a significant step backward in efforts to combat global warming, and stressed that all signatories to the Paris Agreement on climate change must respect the hard-fought compromises reached on emission reductions...
OSCE and UNECE support progress towards climate change adaptation in the Dniester River basin
Publishing date: 27 March 2017
OSCE and UNECE (the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) jointly organized a meeting of the Working Group on Flood Management and Climate Change Adaptation in the Dniester River Basin on 23 March 2017 in Chisinau, Moldova. The meeting attracted more than 60 participants from the ministries of the environment, water agencies, hydro-meteorological services, research institutions and non-governmental organizations from Moldova and Ukraine...
State education standards in Kazakhstan’s water management sector focus of OSCE roundtable discussion
Publishing date: 14 March 2017
ASTANA, 14 March 2017 – Enhancing state education standards in the water sector is the focus of an OSCE-supported roundtable discussion for some 25 representatives of Kazakhstan's Parliament, national water authorities, water basin councils, academia and international organizations that began today in Astana...
OSCE supports energy efficiency workshops for secondary school teachers in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 21 February 2017
An OSCE-supported training seminar on energy efficiency and energy saving measures for some 70 secondary school teachers took place on 20 February 2017 in Karagandy, Kazakhstan...
Maximizing innovative entrepreneurship for job creation essential to peace and prosperity in OSCE region, say participants at Vienna discussion
Publishing date: 23 January 2017
VIENNA, 23 January 2017- Good governance, business partnerships and prevention of radicalization through job and business creation – essential to peace and prosperity in the OSCE region – are the focus of the two-day first Preparatory Meeting of the 25th OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum, which opened today in Vienna...