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Promoting green economy principles
The OSCE Programme Office in Astana is committed to the promotion of the principles of green growth, energy security and renewable energies in Kazakhstan. EXPO-2017 “Future Energy”, held in Astana, underscored the host country’s efforts in those fields and created additional opportunities for further progress towards a more environmentally sustainable economy and renewable energy. The Programme Office provides continued support to Kazakhstan’s strategic legal, economic and institutional reforms aimed at fostering economic development while promoting environmentally friendly practices, green economy, women entrepreneurship, good governance and efficient water resources management.
Wind turbines help provide energy to local residents in Northern Kazakhstan, Ereymentau, 13 July 2016. (OSCE/Bibigul Izbair)
Participants of the green technology workshops for women entrepreneurs discussing the key principles of solar panels, Kostanai, 18 May 2017. (OSCE/Aigul Zharas)
Tatyana Nemtsan from the Arnasai Green Technology Centre meets the participants of the training seminar on the application of green technologies supported by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, Arnasai, 13 April 2017. (OSCE/Aigul Zharas)
Tatyana Nemtsan (r) from the Arnasai Green Technology Centre shows the organic garden to the participants of the training seminar on the application of green technologies, Arnasai, 29 July 2016. (OSCE/Aigul Zharas)
Participants of the green technology workshops for women entrepreneurs discussing the latest development of green technologies in effective horticulture, Arnasai, 13 April 2017. (OSCE/Aigul Zharas)
Organic farming in a year-round greenhouse at the Extension Centre of the National Academy of Green Technology, Arnasai, 4 September 2015. (OSCE/Colin McCullough)
Ambassador György Szabó (r), Head of OSCE Programme Office in Astana, and Saltanat Rakhimbekova, Chairman of the Board of the "Coalition for a "Green Economy” and G-Global Development”, in a greenhouse in Arnasai, 29 July 2016. (OSCE/Aigul Zharas)
Secondary school teachers are discussing the importance of energy efficiency instruments at schools during a workshop supported by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, Atyrau, 31 October 2016. (OSCE/Bakytzhan Arystanbek)
A local farmer shows fish produced in the “green” village Arnasai, 13 April 2017. (OSCE/Aigul Zharas)
Pond fishery farm “Suyindik” as an example of sustainable fishery farm in the region, Kyzylorda, 29 April 2015. (OSCE/Maxim Kan)