EBRD newsletter - Friday 09 April EBRD President Renaud-Basso pays virtual visit to Kazakhstan Over the course of three days, EBRD President Odile Renaud-Basso virtually met with Kazakhstan’s senior leadership, including Prime Minister Askar Mamin and First Deputy Prime Minister and EBRD Governor Alikhan Smailov. During her engagement, President Renaud-Basso also spoke to private-sector investors and representatives of the diplomatic core, and hosted a round table for women entrepreneurs. EBRD and Kazakhstan sign five-year cooperation agreement and set to reach carbon neutrality by 2060 The EBRD and the government of Kazakhstan agreed a five-year Enhanced Partnership Framework Arrangement (EPFA) to boost the resilience, modernisation, digitalisation and regional integration of the national economy, with a view to speeding up its recovery following the Covid-19 pandemic.