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Forum Alexandra Ewing, USAID On Environmental Issues in the Caspian Basin You are cordially invited to a forum on Environmental Issues in the Caspian Basin sponsored by ISAR: Initiative for Social Action and Renewal in Eurasia. ISAR, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC, has been working in the Caspian Basin for the past two and a half years, bringing together Caspian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) as they work to address regional environmental problems in the basin. As the world focuses its attention on oil and gas reserves in the Caspian region, environmental issues have been largely ignored. However, a growing group of local and international activists, scientists, funders and policy makers are turning their attention to environmental concerns including the role of nongovernmental organizations and other community-based groups in addressing local problems, threats to sturgeon, seals and other species native to the Caspian basin, and regional efforts to join governmental and nongovernmental actors in the region. Please join us as we discuss environmental problems in the region with experts from the World Bank, Caspian Environment Programme, Green Salvation (a Kazakh environmental NGO), and the US Agency for International Development. PLEASE RSVP to Michelle Kinman by May 18. Contact |
