Kazakhstan

UNDP experts organized a green café for the media in Kazakhstan’s capital city of Astana on 20 July 2017 and talked about measures of the UNDP and the Kazakh Government on expanding of protected areas, creating ecological corridors for saigas and koulans, expanding the range of the Asiatic poplar tr...Read more

BIOFIN Experts in forest management, fishery, agriculture, light and heavy industries and representatives of public organizations have discussed a financial resource mobilization plan to conserve biodiversity in Kazakhstan in Almaty on 27-28 July 2017. The BIOFIN project team proposed new areas for...Read more

The President of Kazakhstan, Mr. Nursultan Nazarbayev signed new legislation in mid June unlocking more funds for protected areas and widening the scope of how ecosystems are defined under the law – allowing funds to be derived from forest areas from companies that use them for their benefit. There...Read more

For more information please contact James Maiden: Global Communications Specialist James.maiden@undp.org. Almaty, Kazakhstan - Representatives of governments, the United Nations, and technical experts from 13 countries across the Eurasia-Pacific region gathered this week to share knowledge and discu...Read more

ASTANA, 22 November 2016 – BIOFIN in Kazakhstan conducted a workshop on “Mobilization of financial resources for conservation of biodiversity in Kazakhstan”. The purpose of the Workshop was to discuss the different existing opportunities for new biodiversity finance solutions. This is an important s...Read more