Aarhus Centres in Kyrgyzstan
Aarhus Centre Naryn
Kyrgyzstan
Activities: Sustainable Development, Youth empowerment , Environmental legislation , Access to justice in environmental matters, Public awareness
Aarhus Centre Issyk-Kul
Kyrgyzstan
Activities: Environmental legislation, Good environmental governance, Access to environmental information
Aarhus Centre Osh
Kyrgyzstan
Activities: Water resources management, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Hazardous waste, including uranium tailings, Urban waste, Extractive industries, including mining, Sustainable development, Environmental impact assessment, Environmental legislation, Eco-journalism, Youth empowerment
Aarhus Centre Bishkek
Kyrgyzstan
Activities: Water resources management, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Climate change, Hazardous waste, including uranium tailing, Urban waste, Extractive industries, including mining, Green economy, Environmental legislation, Youth empowerment
There are four Aarhus Centres in Kyrgyzstan: one in the city of Osh (since 2004), one in the capital Bishkek (since 2014), one in Issyk-Kul (since 2017) and one in Naryn (since 2019). The primary focus of the Aarhus Centres is to monitor the pollution in environmental hotspots and to facilitate dialogue between mining industries and local communities, facilitating access to information and informed decision-making on the Aarhus Convention Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR), promote community-based disaster risk reduction and foster stakeholder engagement in uranium legacy remediation.