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Mountain newspaper wins Energy Globe Award

05.06.2017

Aiyl Demi, a monthly Kyrgyz-language newspaper designed to serve remote mountain communities, has won the Energy Globe Award in the national category for Kyrgyzstan. Also referred to as the “Oscar of the environment”, the Energy Globe Award was founded in 1999 by Austrian energy pioneer Wolfgang Neumann and is one of today’s most prestigious environmental awards for sustainability projects that conserve and protect the world’s resources or that employ renewable energy. The newspaper was selected from 2 000 submissions from 170 countries. Winning the national Energy Globe Award makes Aiyl Demi automatically eligible for entry into the 2017 International Energy Globe Awards. 

The Aiyl Demi newspaper was a sustainable mountain development initiative supported by the Mountain Partnership Central Asia Mountain Hub (CAMH) at the University of Central Asia under the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation-funded Sustainable Mountain Development for Global Change programme for regional-level work. The newspaper became an independent media platform in 2017, funded partially by the United States-based Christensen Fund. Jointly with Alliance of Central Asian Mountain Communities, Aiyl Demi is attempting to mobilize further resources to make their work sustainable.

Elbegzaya Batjargal, Programme Officer of the CAMH, said, ”We take this award as an international recognition of the Aiyl Demi team’s dedication and as an inspiration for even greater contributions to positive changes in Kyrgyzstan and the Murghab District of Tajikistan.”

The projects of all 2017 national Energy Globe Award winners were presented on 5 June, World Environment Day, on www.energyglobe.info.

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