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The participating States work towards restoring and maintaining a sound ecological balance in the air, water and soil.

The OSCE's environmental initiatives raise the awareness of environmental risks and their impact on security. By enabling environmental co-operation, the OSCE helps to improve sustainable resource management. Its programmes for regional water management and strategies deal with pollution effects caused by toxic and radioactive waste.

In 2002, the OSCE joined forces with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and other UN agencies and NGOs to promote environmental management as a strategy for reducing insecurity in South-Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

OSCE Institutions co-ordinating environmental activities:

Features

OSCE Mission to Serbia supports sustainable development in Vrsac

Budimir Babic, President of the NGO Avalon, based in Vrsac, Serbia, indicates development plans for the area around a local church which will result in several trees being chopped down, 10 August 2008. (OSCE/Maja Micic)

Preserving the unique character of the eastern Serbian city of Vrsac is the aim of a project being implemented by local environmental NGO Avalon with the support of the OSCE Mission.
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OSCE Mission helps young Georgians protect their environment

The active young members of the ECO Club in Chokhatauri, Georgia, get together regularly to plan clean up and awareness-raising activities, 28 May 2008. The OSCE Mission to Georgia has supported the work of ECO Clubs around the country since 2006. (OSCE/Claus Bekker Reinholdt)

The young members of 'ECO Clubs' supported by the OSCE Mission to Georgia are showing their communities the importance of caring for the environment.
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OSCE helps young people find employment as tour guides in Kyrgyzstan

Tour guide trainees take a lunch break while touring Kyrgyzstan as part of an OSCE-supported training course, May 2008. (OSCE)

Thanks to an OSCE project, young people in Kyrgyzstan are developing the skills they need to become tour guides, helping also to address the lack of professionals working in the country's growing tourism industry.
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An OSCE environmental expert (right) and a National Academy of Science representative (left) sample the water of the Kura River in Mingechevir, Azerbaijan. (OSCE/Ilgar Hasanov)

An OSCE environmental expert (right) and a National Academy of Science representative (left) sample the water of the Kura River in Mingechevir, Azerbaijan. (OSCE/Ilgar Hasanov)