Kyrgyzstan
Posted on October 2, 2012.
Milieukontakt International is one of the partners in the new EU funded FAO project Improving capacities to eliminate and prevent recurrence of obsolete pesticides as a model for tackling unused hazardous chemicals in the former Soviet Union, together with the International HCH and Pesticides Association and Green Cross Switzerland. The overall objective of the project [...]
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Posted on December 15, 2009.
ON PROBLEMS OF PERCISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS (POPs) IN REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN AND THE METHODS OF THEIR SOLUTIONS At the conference of United Nations for the environment and development (Rio-de-Janeiro) and World Summit on sustainable development (Johannesburg, August – September, 2002) special attention was given to security issues of the use of chemical substances of the [...]
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Posted on December 7, 2009.
Tauw, Witteveen & Bos, the International HCH & Pesticides Association, Milieukontakt and Green Cross – Switzerland publish the interim reports of the Obsolete Pesticides Technical Study in the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, and the Republic of Uzbekistan. The project is financed by the Canada Persistent Organic Pollutants Fund, through the World Bank. Local [...]
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Posted on August 18, 2009.
In May this year the consortium of Tauw, Witteveen & Bos, the International HCH & Pesticides Association, Milieukontakt and Green Cross – Switzerland was selected by the World Bank to implement the project: Obsolete Pesticides Technical Study in the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, and the Republic of Uzbekistan. The project is financed by [...]
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Posted on December 29, 2008.
Op 20 december is een bericht verschenen van de hand van Sacha Kester in de Volkskrant, gebaseerd op interviews met Sandra Molenkamp, Wouter Pronk en John Vijgen, met als titel : Sovjet-Unie liet giftige erfenis na. Hieronder vindt u een quote van dit artikel: Duizenden tonnen gif liggen onbeschermd in landen van de voormalige Sovjet-Unie, [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2008.
Maar liefst 300.000 ton landbouwgif liggen onveilig opgeslagen in de voormalige Soviet Republieken en bedreigen de leefomgeving van de lokale bevolking. Milieukontakt vindt dat dat niet kan en helpt mee met het opruimen van deze chemicalien. Het programma “Villa VPRO” interviewde Wouter Pronk In De Ervaring Van praten we met Wouter Pronk, projectleider van Milieukontakt [...]
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Posted on September 23, 2008.
September 26th 2008, Milieukontakt will officially start the campaign to attract more supporters for initiatives to improve the environment. The Milieuhelden (Environmental heroes) campaign features strong individuals that want to make a difference for the environment in their country. In this first stage of the Campaign Milieukontakt cooperates with four heroes: Khatuna Akhalaia from Georgia, [...]
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Posted on September 22, 2008.
Friday 26th of September Milieukontakt will organise an expert meeting on alternatives for the incineration of obsolete pesticides. International experts will discuss two options for destruction of pesticides without burning them. One option is a Japanese technique using a mechanochemical instrument and the other is called super critical water oxidation. During the meeting both techniques [...]
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Posted on September 17, 2008.
Osh Region – After the Moldova campaign of 2006 and the Georgia Campaign of May 2008 Milieukontakt starts to repackage old stocks of pesticides in the Osh region of Kyrgyzstan. Trained by experts from the Dutch engineering company Tauw and the Hungarian Agruniver Holding a local team from the Kyrgyz Emergency Ministry has repackaged approximately [...]
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Posted on December 31, 2007.
2005-2007 Obsolete pesticides MD, KG, GG Elimination of acute risks of obsolete pesticides in Moldova, Kyrgyzstan and Georgia Aim: the elimination of acute risks of dissemination of obsolete pesticides, through storage and elimination of the pesticides.
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Posted on October 4, 2007.
Milieukontakt International recently started its new four-year programme in the Western Balkans called “Joining Forces for a Sustainable Future in the Western Balkans”, in short Green Agenda in the Western Balkans. Besides Bosnia and Herzegovina , the programme will be implemented in Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo. The project started on 9 February 2007 [...]
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Posted on September 21, 2007.
At this moment Milieukontakt is looking for CSOs that are interested in setting up a Green Agenda process in their community (or a (nearby) community with which they already have good contacts). Milieukontakt will offer support and advice on how to set up a Green Agenda in close cooperation with a team of trainers and [...]
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Posted on September 14, 2007.
2005-2007 Kyrgyzstan Green Agenda Green Agenda in Kyrgyzstan: Improvement of local democracy and applying sustainability in practice Aim: To improve communication and co-operation between civil organisations, municipalities and other stakeholders in four communities in Kyrgyzstan through supporting the development of Green Agendas. The Green Agendas will improve environmental and nature conditions locally. The method will [...]
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Posted on June 28, 2007.
Today Milieukontakt organises a conference on obsolete pesticides in Amsterdam. In the former USSR there a still a lot of old and broken storages containing huge amounts of poisonous pesticides. The pesticides are often not properly stored anymore and the pesticides are leaking into the soil and water. These pesticides are a ticking time bomb [...]
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Posted on June 1, 2007.
Milieukontakt International recently started its new four-year programme in the Western Balkans called “Joining Forces for a Sustainable Future in the Western Balkans”, in short Green Agenda in the Western Balkans. Besides Albania, the programme will be implemented in Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo. The project started on 9 February 2007 and will end [...]
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Posted on June 1, 2007.
Milieukontakt International recently started its new four-year programme in the Western Balkans called “Joining Forces for a Sustainable Future in the Western Balkans”, in short Green Agenda in the Western Balkans. Besides Macedonia, the programme will be implemented in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo. The project started on 9 February 2007 and will end [...]
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Posted on May 18, 2007.
Milieukontakt has organized an international conference on the problems of Obsolete Pesticides. The conference will take place on June 28th in Amsterdam. During this conference, Milieukontakt will present a Moldovan documentory film on the multi-stakeholder way that the organization is trying to solve this problem in Moldova, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan. For an impression of the [...]
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Posted on May 15, 2007.
On the 2nd of May, EU parliamentarians, scientists and professionals gathered in Brussels for the Public Hearing on the dangers of obsolete pesticides. The event was hosted by Wieslaw Kuc, a member of the European Parliament and an active supporter of initiatives aimed at the elimination of acute risks posed by obsolete pesticides. The discussion [...]
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Posted on April 13, 2007.
Not all gold mining companies learn fast from local communities that ask for the right to decide on their own future. Milieukontakt expert on Local Public Participation Galina Cheban (based in Bishkek) gave an interview and described the current situation on the Andash Gold Mining Case. State Agency for Environment and Forestry Protection under the [...]
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Posted on April 1, 2007.
Unless otherwise stated, the publications below can be ordered by transferring the indicated amount to: Milieukontakt Oost-Europa, P.O. Box 18185, 1001 ZB Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Bank: Postbank, P.O. Box 94780, 1090 GT Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Account: 3503 / Swiftcode: INGB NL 2A / IBAN: NL 98 PSTB 000 000 3503 Manual Green Agenda (by Milieukontakt [...]
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