News and press releases

The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina concluded on 3 October 2013 a two-day train-ing course for judges and prosecutors on the implementation of the Aarhus Convention – a key UN document on access to environmental information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters. Special focus during the course was on access to justice and related EU legislation...

TASHKENT, 3 October 2013 – An OSCE-organized regional workshop on best practices in promoting renewable energy started today in Tashkent. Officials and civil society representatives from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan shared their experiences and discussed their daily work with experts from Georgia, Norway, Spain and Sweden...

PAVLODAR, Northern Kazakhstan, 27 September 2013 – Some 100 participants took part in an OSCE-supported conference on green growth and Kazakhstan’s strategy of transition to the green economy which took place today in Pavlodar...

A two-year training programme on environmental journalism, supported by the Centre in Astana, concluded in Almaty on 20 September 2013. Over the two years, more than 140 journalists from different regions of Kazakhstan participated in training seminars held in Almaty, Atyrau, Karaganda, Pavlodar and Shymkent...

CHISINAU, 20 September 2013 – An OSCE-supported international conference on the environmental state of the Dniestr/Nistru River started today in Chisinau...

More than 30 young civil society leaders and professionals from Central Asia and Afghanistan are taking part in a nine-day Central Asian Leadership Programme training on the environment and sustainable development, which began in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 16 September 2013...

The first assembly of the Rasht Valley Consultative Council for improvement of investment climate was held on 13 September 2013 in the town of Darband in Nurobad district east of Dushanbe...