Legal problems of environmental safety of Kazakhstan

Abstract

The purpose of the state policy in the field of environmental safety is to ensure the protection of natural systems, the vital interests of society and the rights of the individual from threats arising from human and natural impact on the environment. The President’s Address to the people of Kazakhstan noted the health, education and well-being of the citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan as the fourth long-term priority. Among this priority are the issues of disease prevention and promotion of healthy lifestyles, combating drug addiction and drug trafficking, reducing tobacco and alcohol consumption, improving
the health of women and children, improving nutrition, clean environment and ecology. In accordance
with this, it is very appropriate to signal scientists and the whole society in connection with the contradictions
between the importance of the use of natural resources for humans and the need to protect the
natural environment. The task arises to mitigate the negative consequences and damage caused to the
environment by particularly important natural resources, to minimize their consequences and to create
measures for the reproduction of natural resources. To do this, there are needs to address the following
challenges: reducing the anthropogenic impact that leads to climate change and ozone depletion; preservation
of biodiversity and prevention of desertification and land degradation; rehabilitation of ecological
disaster zones, military space polygons and test complexes; prevention of pollution of the Caspian sea
shelf; prevention of degradation and pollution of water resources; elimination and prevention of natural
pollution, air pollution, radioactive, bacteriological and chemical, including transboundary pollution;
industrial and household waste; prevention of natural and man-made emergencies.
Key words: environment, national security, natural resources, national interests, threat to water
security.