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“Green” economy for journalists of Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstani journalists learnt key concepts of the "green" economy at a special training held in Osh on August 28-29, 2017.

Experts on green economy, Bakyt Askarbekov and Zhanybek Kulumbetov, disclosed to journalists the nuances of the "green" economy, its pitfalls that may put humankind at risk. Journalists got knowledge on how the “green” economy issues covered around the world. They also learnt about advanced green technologies in the world and in Kyrgyzstan.

The organizers of the training say the training is targeting at revealing the core of the “green” economy to journalists. “Keen understanding of the “green” economy will elicit mass media’s potential in covering its issues. Today, the local mass media leave topicality of the “green” economy behind the scene. Mass media putting this issue on the back burner deprive the population and the business community of receiving up-to-date information about this quite important and strategic problem of our society. We initiated this training to draw the media's attention to the issues of the “green” economy,” they say.

Journalist of Osh oblast newspaper “Echo of Osh”, Sakhira Nazarova, emphasizes the importance of the training. “It is important that mass media correctly understand fundamentals and terms of the “green” economy and correctly cover them in their materials. Mass media should grasp the essence of the “green” economy in order to share their knowledge with the people,” she says.

The day after the training, the journalists participated in a fascinating press trip across objects of the “green” technologies. They personally met with the pioneers of the “green economy” in Kyrgyzstan who implement “green” technologies in practice.

The training and the press trip were held under the campaign “Green Economy” of the Ministry of Economy of the Kyrgyz Republic with the support of the Promotion of Sustainable Economic Programme of GIZ, UNDP-UNEP Initiative “Poverty and Environment”, UN Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) in partnership with BizExpert Analytical Center.