Nazarbayev instructed Environmental Protection Minister on switching to green economy

Minister of Environmental Protection Nurlan Kapparov. Photo courtesy of pm.kz

Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev met with Minister of Environmental Protection Nurlan Kapparov and gave him instructions on development of a strategy for transferring to the “green economy”, President’s press-service writes.The Minister reported to the President on the results of the UN conference on sustainable development RIO +20 and the perspectives of development of the “green economy” in the country. “Kazakhstan has achieved good results in entering the President’s initiatives - the Global Energy-Ecological Strategy and the Green Bridge Partnership Program - into the final documents of RIO +20,” Kapparov said.