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ASTANA. January 27. KAZINFORM /Muratbek Makulbekov/ - Delivering his Address to the Nation in Parliament, President Nazarbayev assigned the Government to implement a number of major production and infrastructural projects.

TALDYKORGAN. January 27. KAZINFORM /Sandugash Duisenova/ - President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan assigned the Government to amend the Business Road Map 2020 to support new businesses.

ASTANA. January 27. KAZINFORM /Kanat Kulshmanov/ - Separate waste collection must be adopted in Kazakhstan.

ASTANA. January 30. KAZINFORM /Damir Baimanov/ - Establishment of an investment environmental fund is proposed in Kazakhstan. This idea was announced today by Mels Yeleusizov, Chairperson of Tabigat Environmental Union, at an extended session of the Board of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Environment Protection.

ASTANA. January 30. KAZINFORM /Damir Baimanov/ - Last year, major users of natural resources paid 25 billion tenge as a penalty for violations of the environmental laws.

ASTANA. January 30. KAZINFORM /Damir Baimanov/ - Serik Akhmetov, First Deputy to Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, instructed facilities subordinate to Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Environment Protection to supervise hazardous waste management.

ASTANA. January 30. KAZINFORM /Damir Baimanov/ - No industrial projects with obsolete environment protection technologies will be implemented, said Serik Akhmetov, First Deputy to Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, at an extended session of the Board of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Environment Protection today.

The Department of the Kyoto Protocol of the Ministry of Environment Protection of the Republic of Kazakhstan informs that on 15 March 2010, the office meeting of Clean Technology Fund (hereinafter - the Fund) took place in Manila (Philippines), in which the Board of Trustees approved the Investment Plan concessional co-financing for clean technology in Kazakhstan in the amount of 200 million . U.S. dollars worth of funding from international development banks 1.01 billion U.S. dollars.

This year, EcoTech, the annual exhibition held in Almaty, will take place in Astana on 21-23 September 2011 within the Seventh “Environment for Europe” Ministerial Conference, an important event for Kazakhstan that will be attended by representatives of 50 countries.

ASTANA. May 19. KAZINFORM /Askar Bimendin/ Astana "Green Bridge" Initiative will be presented at the Seventh "Environment for Europe" Ministerial Conference in Astana in September 2011.