Society 363 / 2013
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kasachstan<br />
expo 2017<br />
held in Canada in 1967 cost 283 million Canadian<br />
dollars (178 million euro), but also resulted in international<br />
tourism growth of 480 mil lion Canadian<br />
dollars (303 million euro) in the same year.<br />
Fotos: Embassy of Kazakhstan in Vienna<br />
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Kazakhstan Fund<br />
Back in Paris, as soon as Astana was chosen as<br />
the EXPO 2017 host city, Mr. Kairat Kelimbetov, the<br />
Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, spoke at a<br />
press conference where he announced the establishment<br />
of the Kazakhstan EXPO 2017 Fund to support<br />
energy research. The Fund, comprising more<br />
than 62 million euro, will be used to fund scientific<br />
research projects to develop renewable sources of<br />
energy in more than 69 developing nations.<br />
The financial benefits of holding the EXPO are<br />
felt not only by the host city and country, but also<br />
by nations choosing to put up their own exhibits<br />
at the main event. The case of a 10-fold profit was<br />
recorded with the Netherlands through its exhibition<br />
pavilion at EXPO 2010 in Hannover, Germany.<br />
After investing up to 35 million euro on their pavilion,<br />
the Dutch economy received 350 million<br />
euro of investments. However, this is not always<br />
the case, as Germany learned from hosting EXPO<br />
2000 at a loss of 1.2 billion euro. Instead of the expected<br />
40 million people, the exhibition was visited<br />
by only 18 million. The losses recorded by EXPO<br />
2000 became one of the reasons why France (the<br />
organizer of the next show) refused to hold EXPO<br />
2004 in Seine-Saint-Denis.<br />
It should also be kept in mind that hosting the<br />
EXPO is not only about receiving direct economic<br />
gain, but also other additional benefits. An EXPO<br />
Bajterek-Tower in Astana<br />
Info<br />
EXPO 2017<br />
expo 2017<br />
Official webpage of EXPO<br />
in Astana<br />
www.expo2017astana.com<br />
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New Sights<br />
Astana will gain new architectural attractions<br />
as a result of hosting the EXPO. As a reminder, the<br />
world-famous Crystal Palace in London's Hyde Park<br />
was built for the exhibition in 1851, while the Eiffel<br />
Tow er, the symbol of France, was designed by<br />
French engineer Gustave Eiffel especially for the<br />
Paris EXPO 1889. Astana, for its part, will also unveil<br />
new architectural marvels in time for EXPO 2017.<br />
World renowned architects, including Kisho<br />
Kurokawa and Norman Foster, have designed numerous<br />
buildings and structures in Astana, which<br />
became Kazakhstan’s capital only in 1997 (before<br />
that, the capital was Almaty), expanding almost<br />
three times in size from an area of 258 to 710.2<br />
square kilometers. Kazakhstan is expecting to attract<br />
significant amounts of private investment<br />
into the construction of new exhibition facilities<br />
and the necessary infrastruc ture. The holding<br />
of EXPO 2017 is viewed as the next evolutionary<br />
stage in the city’s development.<br />
Land for the construction of the fu ture EXPO<br />
Center has already been selec ted. The total area<br />
for the venue will comprise 113 hectares, of which<br />
25 hectares will be allocated for the Center, and<br />
the rest for parking, outdoor construction, and<br />
the EXPO 2017 Village. Among other things, the<br />
architectural objects being built for EXPO will<br />
allow Kazakhstan and Astana in particular to become<br />
a major internati onal exhibition and information<br />
presentation platform in the future. It is<br />
worth noting that the Kazakhstan Government<br />
intends to further develop its processing industries<br />
and has adopted a po licy of rapid industrialization.<br />
The positive results yielded by these<br />
State measures will introduce new industries and<br />
lead to energy consumpti on growth. Kazakhstan’s<br />
significant reserves of coal (3.6 percent of world<br />
reserves) play a role in determining the country’s<br />
energy balance.<br />
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Outlook for the future<br />
Kazakhstan builds its energy po licies around<br />
the notion that by 2030 the share of renewable<br />
energy sources (RES) will increase to 11 percent<br />
in the structure of the generating capacity of the<br />
country. Kazakh authorities hope that with the<br />
development of renewable energy in the world,<br />
these technologies will become cheaper. It is symbolic<br />
that the EXPO 2017 venue in Astana will be<br />
powered exclusively by renewable energy sources,<br />
effectively making Kazakhs tan’s capital a city of<br />
the future. EXPO 2017 in Astana will showcase<br />
world alternative energy de velopments and expand<br />
the horizons of renewable energy in Kazakhstan<br />
and abroad.<br />
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