November 25, 2015   Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KNU) held the first interdisciplinary workshop on a permanent basis "Global Challenges of the XXI Century", which was held in the Library of al-Farabi.
Currently, under the global challenges and issues of our time should be understood set of problems, the solution of which depends on the continued existence of civilization.Global challenges are the result of the uneven development of different areas of the life of modern humanity's interaction with nature and the environment, as well as the contradictions posed by socio-economic, socio-natural, political, ideological, and other people's attitudes. These issues affect the lives of humankind in general and Kazakhstan in particular.This seminar is designed to combine the constant versatile specialists, scientists and public figures who will discuss global problems facing humanity, and propose ways to resolve them, following the objectives of the UN in the field of sustainable development.During the first workshop addressed the following questions: current trends of climate change in Kazakhstan, the environmental problems of the Aral Sea and the state of fish fauna in the conditions of anthropogenic press.The seminar was attended by KNU scientists, representatives of research institutes (zoology, genetics, botany, etc.), UNESCO experts, Kazakhstan Agency of Applied Ecology (KAAE) and discussed the problems of sustainable development, ecology and environmental protection.