TENDERING: UNDP seeks service providers for development of SECAPs for 37 municipalities, cities in BiH
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has issued a public call for the development of Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans (SECAPs) for 37 municipalities and cities. The deadline to submit applications is May 20. The UNDP BiH is seeking service providers for the development of SECAPs for 37 municipalities […]
Macedonian activist wins Goldman Environmental Prize
The Goldman Environmental Foundation has announced six recipients of the 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize, the world’s foremost award for grassroots environmental activists, according to a press release from the foundation. One of the awards has for the first time gone to North Macedonia, to Ana Colovic Lesoska, who has successfully campaigned to halt international lending […]
Pilot sturgeon stocking carried out in Romania, Hungary
The Danube River fauna were enriched on April 18 with two important sturgeon stocking events, in Baja, Hungary and Isaccea, Romania, the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) said in a news release. The aim of this activity was to save and strengthen two highly endangered Danube sturgeon populations by state-of-the-art conservational methods. The events […]
There is no life without water, and small hydropower plants would extinguish it on Stara Planina
Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta has been fighting against the construction of run-of-river small hydropower plants (SHPPs) on Mt. Stara Planina (the Balkan mountain range) since 2016. Growing up, Jovanović witnessed much better hydrological days of the rivers and streams of Stara Planina, which have since been hurt by climate change and investors’ plans to build SHPPs. […]
Dimitrovgrad municipality proposes ban on SHPPs on its territory
The Municipal Council of Dimitrovgrad in eastern Serbia has adopted a decision to propose the expulsion of all potential locations for the construction of small hydropower plants (SHPPs) from the local spatial plan, Južne vesti reported. The 1987 cadastre for SHPPs envisages the construction of 12 facilities in the Dimitrovgrad municipality and although none have […]
Investors alone have benefits from small hydropower plants – citizens, state and municipalities have none
The authorities did not consider the possible environmental impact when they lightly issued construction permits for small hydropower plants (SHPPs) and approved incentives for privileged electricity producers. And then the adept investors saw the opportunity to make profits – they lobbied to adjust regulations and, coupled with poor inspection work on the ground, the situation […]
Croatian cities Zagreb, Novska to build EUR 50 million biowaste facility
The cities of Zagreb and Novska and the Zagreb waste management center have signed an agreement on the construction of a facility for the treatment of separately collected biowaste. The waste will be transported from Zagreb to Novska, in whose business zone the EUR 50 million facility will be built. Complete documentation, including the building […]
Sustainable urban mobility discussed in the Serbian Parliament
What some countries took decades to achieve in terms of sustainable urban mobility planning, Slovenia managed in only 10 years. Its capital Ljubljana is one of good practice examples presented to Serbian Members of Parliament and other stakeholders at an informative session organized by the GIZ Open Regional Fund for South-East Europe – Energy Efficiency […]
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