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At the Academy associates attended the lecture on Global Warming and Livestock Sector in Mongolia by the former Director of Mongolian Meteorology Center Mr. L. Natsagdorj.
At Erdenet the copper and molybdenum ore mining and processing enterprise, open-pit mine "Erdenet", which produces over 1,5% of world intake of copper was introduced to 12 Cohort. The “Erdenet” is producing 500000 tons of copper concentrate per year. The meeting with the Deputy Director on social problems took place. The agreement of joint environmental project processing has been achieved. The main output of the session is common vision of Mongolia as rapidly developing country with the great potential to be the one of the most important neighbor of the CIS region. A lot of problems will face Mongolia on this way but all of them could be overcame by unity of Mongolian people. |
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The Field Session of Cohort 12 LEAD CIS devoted to Nikita
Glazovsky took place in Mongolia from 28.08.2007 to 03.09.2007 with
the support of Mongolian Embassy in Moscow and Mongolia-Russia
Friendship society and with the great personal help of Mr. Petr
Ivanov (Cohort 2 LEAD CIS fellow). The session was dedicated to the
general problems of climate change and sustainable development of
Mongolia. During the session associates visited Mongolian capital
Ulan-Bator, aymak center Bulgan, Erdenet and mining company, somon
center Hor-Horin and the Natural Reserve at Ogii-Nuur lake.
Another
important event was the visit to affiliated branch of the famous Russian
Academy of Economics located in Ulan-Bator. This branch is giving high
education not only to Mongolian students but to the young people from Russia
and other CIS countries as well. The associates met professor Popov - the
Head of the Branch who spoke with them about the problems and perspectives
of High Education in Mongolia. It was reached an agreement on the
cooperation and involving of Mongolian participants in the LEAD CIS program.
The
participants also visited the 'GOBI' manufactory that is an example of
modern Mongolian high-tech production', where they were given the
opportunity to see all the steps of cashmere manufacturing from cutted wool
to the ready thing under the supervision and with the comments of Deputy
Director of the factory Mr. N. Jargalsaykhan.
The associates were deeply impressed by the Ogii Lake Ecosystem
Conservation Project the principal goal of which is to promote community
based conservation and wise use of wetland ecosystem. Ogii Lake wetland is
protected from April 2006 as the internationally important wetland for
waterfowl under the Ramsar Convention. The area contains 266 species of
plants, 20 species of mammals, 129 species of birds and 15 species of fish.