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OSCE supports online training seminar for young professionals and civil servants from Central Asia and Afghanistan on climate change mitigation

Publishing date: 22 September 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
An OSCE-supported training seminar on climate change mitigation and adaptation in Central Asia concluded on 22 September 2020 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Parliamentary input, greater urgency from governments needed to address climate crisis, say OSCE parliamentarians at webinar

Publishing date: 17 September 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Climate change, Environmental activities
COPENHAGEN, 16 September 2020 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s webinar today, entitled “From the Arctic to Global: The Political Role in addressing Climate Change,” featured the participation of some 50 parliamentarians and experts for a discussion on the effects of climate change in the Arctic and beyond. The PA’s Special Representative on Arctic Issues, Norwegian parliamentarian Torill Eidsheim, opened the event, followed by keynote addresses by the Arctic Council’s Adalheidur Thorsteinsdottir, the UN’s Daniele Violetti, and Prof. Tore Furevik, Director of the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research...

Water management in focus of OSCE seminar in Turkmenistan

Publishing date: 15 September 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Environmental activities, Water management
An OSCE-organized online seminar “The use of innovative technologies as a key to rational water management” opened on 15 September 2020 in Ashgabat.

OSCE supports Central Asian Leadership Programme for environmental leaders

Publishing date: 14 September 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
The OSCE-supported annual Central Asian Leadership Programme began on 14 September 2020 in Almaty.

Improve transparency and institutions’ resilience in fight against corruption urge participants of 2020 OSCE Forum in Prague

Publishing date: 10 September 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities
What we do: Environmental activities, Environmental good governance
PRAGUE, 10 September 2020 – “Corruption shrinks tax revenue, distorts markets, hampers trade and investment and deepens inequalities. Every time illegal private gain wins out against the public good, it weakens our social fabric. Our objective is nothing short of zero tolerance for corruption,” said Albania’s Acting Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of Albania Gent Cakaj, while opening the 2020 OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum today in Prague...

Preventing and combating corruption through innovation, transparency and digitalization focus of 2020 OSCE Forum in Prague

Publishing date: 7 September 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
VIENNA/PRAGUE, 7 September 2020 – Preventing and combating corruption through innovation, increased transparency and digitalization while promoting security, stability and economic growth in the OSCE region will be the focus of the first ever “blended” Concluding Meeting of the 28th OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum, which opens on Thursday, 10 September 2020, in Prague...

OSCE supports online training seminar on filling out and using Pollutant Release Transfer Register in Kazakhstan

Publishing date: 19 August 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
An OSCE-supported online training seminar on the filling out and use of the Protocol on the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) for some 45 private and civil sector representatives in the Karaganda region took place on 18 August 2020...