NEW EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF THE UNITED NATIONS CLIMATE CHANGE SECRETARIAT
17 May 2010: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Christiana Figueres as the new Executive Secretary of the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat. Ms Figueres has been a member of the Costa Rican negotiating team since 1995. She represented Latin America and the Caribbean on the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism in 2007 and was elected Vice President of the Bureau 2008-2009.
SECOND ROUND OF WORKSHOPS: BUILDING ENERGY EFFICIENCY CAPABILITY IN KAZAKHSTAN
Irbaris LLP with the support of Kazakhstan’s Climate Change Coordination Centre (known as C4) is delivering a series of workshops to raise awareness of energy efficiency and accelerate the country’s progress towards a low carbon – high growth economy. The project – “Building Energy Efficiency Capability in Kazakhstan” – is funded by the UK Foreign Office through the British Embassy, Astana whose support is gratefully acknowledged.
In September 2009 Irbaris and C4, with the support of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, engaged with Kazakh business leaders in five different regions across the country in one day workshops to discuss overcoming barriers to the successful implementation of energy efficiency capacities. During each workshop, various examples of energy efficiency programmes from the international oil and gas, mining and manufacturing industries were presented together with some of the technological and operational solutions in use around the globe. Participants were encouraged to examine the business impact of current energy policies in Kazakhstan and the workshops provided an introduction to new energy legislation as well as the potential impact of the Kyoto Protocol on energy efficiency opportunities.
TRAININGS: SUPPORTING DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE AND RENEWABLE ENERGY AND CDM/JI PROJECTS IN CIS
Dear Colleagues,
Project team of the ТACIS project «Support to Kyoto Protocol Implementation in CIS» is organizing the second regional training course on supporting development of sustainable and renewable energy and CDM/JI projects in CIS with review of the EU legislation and policy, the state-of-the-art Technologies and Carbon Financing. The regional training course “Energy efficiency/Renewable Energy and CDM/JI projects” will take place at the conference hall of the Grand Park Esil Hotel in Astana from 17 to 18 November 2009 (address: 8 Beibitshilik str. http://www.grandparkesil.kz.).
We kindly invite everybody and request to fill out the attached application form and send to the Climate Change Coordination Centre to the following e-mail address: info@climate.kz or fax: 717 2 32 47 38.
International experts launch Energy Efficiency Workshops across Kazakhstan in September
Irbaris LLP with the support of Kazakhstan’s Climate Change Coordination Centre (known as C4) is delivering a series of workshops to raise awareness of energy efficiency and accelerate the country’s progress towards a low carbon – high growth economy. The project – “Building Energy Efficiency Capability in Kazakhstan” – is funded by the UK Foreign Office through the British Embassy, Astana.
SECOND NATIONAL COMMUNICATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN TO THE UNFCCC
Dear colleagues,
The Kazakhstan delegation presented its Second National Communication (SNC) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change during the sessions of Subsidiary Bodies held in Bonn, Germany. SNC was developed by national experts in the frames of the UNDP/GEF project implementation. Climate Change Coordination Centre took active part in its preparation and presentation. SNC describes tendencies of climate change in Kazakhstan, includes the policy and measures, GHG emissions forecasts and etc.
SNC of the Republic of Kazakhstan could be downloaded from our website.
17 May 2010: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Christiana Figueres as the new Executive Secretary of the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat. Ms Figueres has been a member of the Costa Rican negotiating team since 1995. She represented Latin America and the Caribbean on the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism in 2007 and was elected Vice President of the Bureau 2008-2009.
