OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan organizes series of webinars on environmental volunteering

The last in a series of three OSCE-supported webinars on promoting eco-volunteering and leadership in Kazakhstan concluded in Nur-Sultan on 7 August 2020.
The webinars, organized by the Association of Kazakhstan’s Environmental Organizations, in co-operation with the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan, involved over 200 young environmental leaders and volunteers from all regions of Kazakhstan.
During half-day online webinars/presentations, the participants learned about significant environmental challenges, existing trends in minimizing carbon footprints and ways to promote environmental volunteering practices among the youth.
Both local and international experts in the area of good environmental governance covered topics such as social media platforms to promote sustainable development goals, factors influencing environmental volunteering and online programmes focussing on environmental volunteering programmes.
Follow-up cleaning events with the participation of environmental volunteers to reduce litter in nature and to give visibility to the issue will be held in several regions of Kazakhstan depending on the COVID-19 situation.
The event is a follow-up to the Programme Office’s long-standing efforts to promote green growth and sustainable development by strengthening the network of young environmental leaders in the Central Asian region and beyond. It is in line with the Kazakhstan President’s initiative to declare 2020 as the Year of Volunteers.