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OSCE Centre promotes civil society participation in environmental decision-making in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 27 August 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 27 August 2012 – A two-day OSCE-supported conference on environmental security and protection initiated by the Ecological Forum of Non-governmental Organizations of Kazakhstan (EcoForum) concluded in Almaty today...
OSCE Centre supports the creation of expert councils to monitor the implementation of largest infrastructure project in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 13 July 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
ASTANA, 13 July 2012 – Some 40 representatives of state entities, non-governmental organizations, international financial institutions, banks and businesses met today for the first meeting of the National Expert Council for Transparency and Sustainable Development...
OSCE Centre in Astana celebrates World Environment Day
Publishing date: 5 June 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
On the occasion of the 2012 World Environment Day on 5 June, staff of the OSCE Centre in Astana planted shrubs in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The theme of the 2012 World Environmental Day is “Green economy: does it include you?” The event was organized by the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia to raise awareness of environmental risks and ecological scarcities...
OSCE Centre in Astana helps to enhance water co-operation
Publishing date: 29 May 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 29 May 2012 – Sixty policy and decision makers, legal and technical experts, and academia and non-governmental organizations representatives from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia are taking part in a workshop on groundwater management which started today in Almaty...
Access to information, public participation in decision making, access to justice on environmental matters in focus at OSCE-supported forum in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 22 May 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 22 May 2012 – A two-day sub-regional conference on the implementation of the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (the Aarhus Convention) started today in Almaty...
OSCE Centre in Astana trains journalists to cover environmental issues
Publishing date: 5 April 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan, 5 April 2012 – A two-day training course on environmental reporting for journalists began today in Shymkent in southern Kazakhstan. The course was organized by the OSCE Centre in Astana together with the NGO MediaNet International Centre for Journalism, the Southern Kazakhstan Regional Administration, and the newly established Shymkent Aarhus Centre...
OSCE Centre promotes public participation in environmental governance in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 4 April 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities