🌱 On July 25, the Manzherok Resort in the Republic of Altai hosted the International Environmental Conference.

Eight countries participated: 🇷🇺 Russia, 🇦🇲 Armenia, 🇧🇾 Belarus, 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan, 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan, 🇹🇯 Tajikistan, 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan and 🇹🇲 Turkmenistan.

The international conference opened with a plenary session, Environmental Challenges: Sustainable Development Strategies, that covered the participating countries’ conservation and environmental agendas.

🎙 Excerpts from Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin’s remarks:

“Billions of people live across Eurasia. Unfortunately, the environmental toll has been especially severe in recent years. Certainly, if we want to preserve our natural heritage for future generations, it is important to take collective action to address the environmental challenges together. People’s health and wellbeing depend on it.” <...>

“The Russian Federation remains deeply involved in environmental cooperation through both bilateral and multilateral frameworks, including platforms such as the #CIS, the #SCO and #BRICS. It is important that all existing agreements be fulfilled and expanded with new initiatives.”

Ministers of natural resources, environment and ecology spoke during the expert session noscriptd Preserving Global Water Balance. The ministers discussed how climate change affects water resources and what measures must be taken today to minimise the impact.

A session noscriptd Environmental Tourism: Showcasing the Country was dedicated to human impact regulation in tourist destinations, the role of eco-tourism in the economic development, building eco-trails, and managing cross-border nature reserves, national parks, and joint projects.

Other discussion points included the development of trans-border eco-tourism, natural territories under special protection, and biodiversity conservation. One example is the joint initiative by five countries to restore the population of snow leopards inhabiting Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin also held meetings on the sidelines of the International Environmental Conference with:

🇷🇺🇧🇾 Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin;

🇷🇺🇰🇿 Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov;

🇷🇺🇦🇲 Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.

📷 © RIA Novosti / Dmitry Astakhov

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