Parliamentary Appeal for Nuclear Abolition
Parliamentarians, mayors, disarmament experts, and civil society representatives meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan at the international conference “From a Nuclear Test Ban to a Nuclear Weapons Free World” held on the International Day Against Nuclear Tests 29 August 2012, make the following appeal to parliaments and governments around the world:read more...
About Kazakhstan Rio+20
| Rio+20: Kazakhstan calls for ‘Green Bridge’ to maintain growth in emerging markets and beat economic |
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Kazakhstan has called on nations, businesses and NGOs to give the global economy a green boost by uniting behind the nation’s Green Bridge initiative at the Rio+20. The Green Bridge initiative is a practical mechanism to achieve an international shift to a green economy, through promoting technology transfer and environment management experience, and putting in place improved legal, economic and institutional conditions to encourage a new wave of green industry. The adoption of the Green Bridge Partnership Programme at Rio+20 would create a vast new market for green goods, services and new technologies, providing a massive green economic stimulus to the global economy. At the Summit in Rio, Kazakhstan’s Minister for Environmental Protection, Nurlan Kapparov, commented: “In these difficult economic times, the Green Bridge is one of practical solution to grow and accelerate the green economy around the world. This transition is the only sustainable way for emerging markets to maintain their current growth and for developed nations to grow their way out of recession”. Proposed by Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev at the UN General Assembly in September 2011, the Green Bridge Partnership Programme for 2011-2020 is supported by the members of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). This represents 95 countries and almost three quarters of the population of the planet, including over 1 billion of the world’s poor. Central Asia faces a number of environmental challenges including water scarcity and inefficiency of energy use. In Kazakhstan alone, the Government has calculated that the Green Economy has the potential to increase energy efficiency by 40-60%, water saving by 50%, and reduce industrial waste by 30 billion tons. At the same time, the Government predicts huge opportunities for green industry, including organic agriculture, eco-tourism, renewable energy, and a potential fishery industry worth over $1Bn a year. In addition to the Green Bridge initiative, Kazakhstan will also use the Rio Summit to put forward a Global Energy and Environment Strategy, aimed at managing the long-term transition from conventional to sustainable energy. |
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