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OSCE Centre promotes establishment of network for transparency and sustainable development in Kazakhstan's extractive industries
Publishing date: 26 January 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
KARAGANDA, Kazakhstan, 26 January 2010- An OSCE-supported workshop on improving transparency and encouraging co-operation among the government, civil society and the industrial sector to promote sustainable development opened today in Karaganda.
OSCE Centre in Astana supports launch of pilot pollutant release and transfer register
Publishing date: 25 November 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
ASTANA, Kazakhstan, 25 November 2009- A pilot Pollutant Release and Transfer Register, created under the Aarhus Convention, was launched today with the support of the OSCE Centre in Astana...
OSCE Centre in Astana raises awareness on international conventions related to oil spills preparedness and response
Publishing date: 13 November 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
ASTANA, 13 November 2009- The OSCE Centre in Astana organized a workshop today to support Kazakhstan's efforts to ratify conventions on international oil spills preparedness and response...
OSCE organizes workshop in Kazakhstan on oil spills response
Publishing date: 14 October 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities, Good governance
ATYRAU, 14 October 2009- Experts from countries on the Caspian Sea shore, international organizations, private sector and civil society will discuss how to best deal with oil spills at an OSCE workshop that starts in Atyrau, western Kazakhstan, today.
OSCE Centre organizes workshop to encourage public participation in environmental decision-making
Publishing date: 2 July 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretariat
URALSK, 2 July 2009-A workshop organized by the OSCE Centre in Astana that concluded today in Uralsk in western Kazakhstan aimed to develop co-operation and foster trust in the field of environmental decision-making among regional authorities...
OSCE Centre co-organizes workshop on transparency in the oil, gas and mining, industries
Publishing date: 15 June 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Democratization, Economic activities, Environmental activities
AKTAU, 15 June 2009- An OSCE Centre co-organized two-day workshop on transparency and public participation in decision-making in extractive industries, such as oil, gas and mining, opened today in Aktau in western Kazakhstan...
OSCE supports discussions to improve management of transboundary groundwaters
Publishing date: 28 May 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities, Human rights
ALMATY, 28 May 2009- A workshop on groundwater management organized by the OSCE Centre in Astana and the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Cluster Office in Almaty ended today in Almaty...