Lack of public participation reason to challenge any permit granted for small HPP – Energy Community
Public participation is an essential part of environmental assessment procedures, which must be implemented by all Contracting Parties. If this obligation is not met the Secretariat will initiate a dispute settlement case to ensure that Energy Community (EnC) law is implemented in practice, said the EnC’s Secretariat in its statement on small hydropower (HPP) development, […]
Ride-hailing service CarGo adds 20 hybrid cars to fleet
Serbian ride-hailing service CarGo has expanded its fleet with 20 new Toyota hybrid cars, which help reduce harmful emissions and protect the environment, the company has said in a news release. This is the first part of an investment cycle that will see CarGo add another 30 hybrid cars produced by the Japanese carmaker by […]
Serbia, Croatia, BiH, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus among countries to improve green transition scores – EBRD
Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Bulgaria, Romania, and Cyprus are among countries that improved their 2018 scores in the area of green transition compared to 2017, while the scores of Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Kosovo*, Montenegro, and Turkey, among other markets, remained unchanged, according to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD) Transition Report […]
Pipistrel’s electric aircraft as solution for vertical mobility and greener aviation
Aviation is responsible for more than 2% of global CO2 emissions, which ranks it in the top 10 emitters. At the same time, the cities all around the world are trying to tackle air and noise pollution and massive traffic jams. Couple that with the facts that battery prices are rapidly becoming lower and that […]
Croatian, Greek, Irish islands selected for EU energy transition pilot project
Croatia’s Cres-Lošinj archipelago, including the Cres, Lošinj, Susak, and Ilovik islands, as well as the Sifnos island in Greece and the Arani islands in Ireland, have been selected for the implementation of an energy transition pilot project within the Clean Energy for EU Islands initiative, the office of the Croatian member of the European Parliament […]
Single-use is Collins Dictionary’s word of the year
‘Single-use’, a term that describes items whose unchecked proliferation are blamed for damaging the environment and affecting the food chain, has been named Collins Dictionary’ Word of the Year 2018, Collins said. Single-use refers to products – often plastic – that are ‘made to be used once only’ before disposal. Images of plastic adrift in the […]
Use of biomass toward low-carbon industry – challenges and prospects
Serbia’s cement industry is ready to increase the use of biomass as fuel, which would have a positive impact on reducing CO2 emissions, according to a roundtable organized by UNECOOP with the support of the Association of the Cement Industry of Serbia (CIS) and the Faculty of Applied Ecology – Futura. The roundtable on the […]
Albania bans imports of cars over 10 years old, not meeting Euro 5 emission standard from 2019
The Albanian government has adopted a decision banning imports of cars older than 10 years and not meeting the Euro 5 emission standard as of January 1, 2019, in an effort to reduce air pollution, the Albanian media reported. Under the government’s decision, cars produced more than 10 years ago and imported into Albania by […]