Climate Action Network (CAN) in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) is looking for an organiser (part-time) to join our team in 2021 within the cooperation project with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES). We are planning to have a series of workshops (online, hybrid, and possibly offline) on climate advocacy in the EECCA countries to help CSOs…
On December 12, the Paris Agreement signing anniversary, Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, the President of Kazakhstan, announced that Kazakhstan would become climate neutral by 2060. The announcement was made at the virtual Climate Ambition Summit organized by the UN Secretary General. At the summit, statements were made by the heads of more than 70 countries, including Armenian…
On December 12, 2015, a historic climate agreement was signed in Paris, uniting all countries of the world in the desire to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, switch to clean energy sources and adapt to the effects of climate change. How did these 5 years go for the post-Soviet countries? “The approved commitments and plans of…
2020 has become a challenge for the whole world, not only in terms of the climate crisis and natural disasters, but also in terms of the economic and social crisis provoked by the coronavirus pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that it is impossible to provide an adequate response to global challenges without joining the efforts of all sectors of society. This is…
The vision of the Greens Movement of Georgia and the civil society (signatories of this vision) on «Georgia’s draft Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC)». General Attitudes Towards Georgia’s (NDC) — (Published by the Ministry of Environment and Agriculture of Georgia, June 2020):
The pandemic revealed that many countries are unprepared for the crisis and are vulnerable to global problems. One such problem is climate change. The countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia (EECCA) are already facing its consequences — from heat waves and forest fires to catastrophic precipitation and permafrost melting. Olga Boiko, coordinator of…
Residents of Cheremza and the nearby town of Myski have now stopped the illegal movement of heavy construction equipment under railway bridges right along the Kalandas riverbed. The machinery was moving towards the construction of a road to the future coal loading station of the Kuznetskiy Yuzhny open pit. About 20 people stay in place…