Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan outlined the country’s decarbonisation plans at the opening of the COP31 leaders’ summit. He also described the situation in Gaza as an environmental crisis.
Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov met with the heads of delegations from the Central Asia–China format. Kazakhstan was represented by Yersayin Nagaspayev.
Accel has led a $30 million Series A for SE3, which builds spatial intelligence software for autonomous systems. The company is initially focused on European defense.
A 109-km section of the republican Zhezkazgan–Arkalyk–Petropavlovsk road in Ulytau Region has undergone medium repairs. The work included installing or renewing 17 culverts and repairing the Balga Bridge.
Ten projects in literature, publishing and digital reading technologies have won grant support in Kazakhstan. About 50 million tenge has been allocated for their implementation.
KazTransOil transported 38 million 306 thousand tonnes of oil in the first 10 months of 2026. That was 1 million 323 thousand tonnes more than in the same period last year.
Kazakhstan’s Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Alibek Kuantyrov met with Mukhtar Babayev, the Azerbaijani president’s representative on climate issues. They discussed the Caspian Sea’s environmental state and ways to strengthen cooperation to protect it.
A project in the Turkistan and Kyzylorda regions will restore 2,200 km of canals and automate 1,400 km of irrigation systems. It aims to improve the environmental condition of the Aral Sea region.
Improved accounting for oil in trunk pipelines resulted in 3.3 billion tenge in tax payments to the state budget. Similar measures are now under way on the Atasu–Alashankou pipeline.
Kazakhstan plans to build five multidisciplinary children’s hospitals with 200 beds each. A 500-bed national scientific children’s hospital is also under consideration in Almaty.
KazMunayGas received the Grand Prix at SDG Champions 2026 for its contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The company won in the Large Business category.