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OSCE promotes best practices on trans-boundary water management
Publishing date: 24 May 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
Participants of a meeting held in Bishkek on 23 May to mark ten years of an OSCE-supported Trans-boundary Water Management Commission between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, summed up the results achieved under the initiative and charted the way forward.
OSCE promotes UN conventions on oil spill preparedness and response
Publishing date: 27 April 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
ASTANA, 27 April 2011 – An OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on enhancing international oil spill preparedness and response through the promotion, ratification and implementation of key UN conventions was held in Astana today...
OSCE Centre supports young professionals from Central Asian environmental NGOs
Publishing date: 12 February 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
ALMATY, 12 February 2011- Some 45 young leaders representing environmental non-governmental organizations from Central Asia are taking part in the Youth Environmental Forum that started in Almaty today with the support of the OSCE Centre...
Methods to teach environmental awareness in focus at course organized by OSCE Centre in Astana
Publishing date: 22 November 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Democratization, Environmental activities, Education
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 22 November 2010- Promoting environmental education and sustainable development for schoolchildren through multimedia educational packages is the focus of two training seminars organized this week in Almaty by the OSCE Centre...
OSCE-supported conference discusses Integrated Water Resources Management in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 8 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 11 October 2010- The promotion of the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Ili-Balkhash basin is the topic of the OSCE Centre's conference that started today in Almaty...
OSCE Centre concluded series of training seminars on environmental protection
Publishing date: 23 July 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
ASTANA, 23 July 2010- OSCE-supported training courses on the role of civil society in resolving environmental issues and improving waste management and pollution control in the Caspian Sea region concluded today.
OSCE Centre promotes green growth policy tools in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 1 July 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
ASTANA, 1 July 2010- Ensuring that planning for economic development fully takes environmental issues into consideration is the focus of a workshop that started today in the framework of the Third International Economic Forum in Astana...