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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE organizes workshop on environment and security in Armenia
Publishing date: 26 March 2014
YEREVAN, 26 March 2014 – The linkages between the environment and security and how to address challenges associated with them were the focus of a two-day OSCE workshop kicked off today for representatives of Public Environmental Information Centres (Aarhus Centres) and civil society in Armenia...
Sustainable water management key to security, OSCE Secretary General says on World Water Day
Publishing date: 21 March 2014
VIENNA, 22 March 2014- Sustainable water management is key to ensuring peace, stability and security, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier said today to mark World Water Day...
OSCE, Japan government provide equipment for environmental monitoring around Issyk-Kul lake in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 17 February 2014
BALYKCHY, Kyrgyzstan, 17 February 2014 – New environmental monitoring equipment to enhance the protection of Kyrgyzstan’s largest lake was handed over to staff from the Issyk-Kul Biosphere Territory by the Embassy of Japan and the OSCE Centre in Bishkek today in the lakeside town of Balykchy...
Advancing implementation of Aarhus Convention in Belarus in focus at workshop co-organized by OSCE
Publishing date: 31 January 2014
MINSK, 31 January 2014 – More than 40 representatives of central and local government, civil society and academia highlighted the challenges and solutions for advancing the implementation of the Aarhus Convention in Belarus, at a three-day workshop co-organized by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA), which ended today...
States need to work together to prevent environmental disasters, say participants of OSCE meeting
Publishing date: 27 January 2014
VIENNA, 27 January 2014 – The need for participating States to work together to better prepare for, and respond to natural disasters was highlighted at the First Preparatory Meeting of the 22nd OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum, which started today in Vienna...
OSCE Office trains Azerbaijani journalists on environmental reporting
Publishing date: 18 December 2013
BAKU, 18 December 2013 – The OSCE Office in Baku organized a three-day training course for Azerbaijani journalists on environmental investigative reporting, which began today. The course aims to increase the flow of environmental information in the country, as well as facilitate public participation and action on environmental matters...
Adapting to climate change in Dniester/Nistru River basin focus of meeting in Kyiv held by OSCE and UNECE
Publishing date: 13 December 2013
KYIV, 13 December 2013 – International co-operation in adapting to changing climate conditions in the Dniester/Nistru River basin is the focus of the 8th meeting of the Working Group on Flood Management and Climate Change Adaptation, organised under the auspices of the OSCE and the UN Economic Commission for Europe in Kyiv that today brings together representatives from Moldova and Ukraine...