THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS OF TODAY -

Every year, the world experiences different problems that are getting more worse when we don't take initiative on curing it. Worldwide, we suffer different environmental issues that only us can solve it because what happens to the world is also our own fault of not doing our responsibilities of taking good care of it. We have forgotten that God had given us the duties of being the world's caretaker. Therefore, in our hands rely the duties of being reliable and responsible.

Even other continents experience climate change, forest destruction, and massive continual pollution that is due to the use of machinery that contributes to the release of more carbon dioxide in the air. The question is, CAN WE STILL EASE THIS PROBLEM?

This is just an example of an article on the environmental issues Asia is facing today:

source: http://eurodialogue.org/eu-central-asia/Environmental-Problems-of-Asian-Region-have-Reached-a-Critical-Point

The OSCE is literally the only regional organization, which includes the most influential countries in the world.

On May 24th -26th  the final part of the 18th OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum took place in Prague. One of key problems that Kazakhstan consider necessary to pay attention to with regard to environmental dimension of OSCE activities is environmental security of the region.

By now (in the beginning of the XXI century) the environmental problems of Asian region have reached critical point, obliging the international community to focus on them. The scope of these problems is very broad, including Semipalatinsk and Caspian region, the Aral Sea, degradation of pastures and arable land in different regions of Central Asia, water pollution from sewage and anti-desertification and drought mitigation measures. These problems affect millions of human lives, and to date, OSCE is literally the only regional organization, which includes the most influential countries in the world, particularly those in Asia, and has an ability to assist within environmental challenges of the new millennium. Thus, the OSCE chairmanship of Kazakhstan in 2010 is an opportunity to make significant steps to solve these problems.

The objectives of agricultural development and overcoming global food crisis –stated in 2008 in the message of President to the people of Kazakhstan has made the condition of agricultural land particularly important. Since the mid-XXth century an extensive development of agriculture along with unsustainable land management technologies used in the USSR have led to loss the of significant part of fertile layer of soil. According to experts’ estimations, the loss of humus amounted to about one-third of the original stock since the beginning of the virgin land cultivation. Wind and water erosion led to soil degradation, resulting in desertification of more than 65% of the territory of Kazakhstan. In addition, mass cultivation was one of the reasons for increased frequency and severity of drought, which subsequently accelerated drying up of lakes and rivers. The regulation of runoff in an arid climate conditions brought to the shortages of water in rivers and lakes in Southern region.