Environment
Slovenia launches online platform for preparation of coal phaseout strategy
05 August 2020 - The Ministry of Infrastructure has set up an online platform as the main communication channel...
Environmentalists alert UNESCO of ‘ecocide’ of Tara river in Montenegro
03 August 2020 - Activists in Montenegro informed UNESCO of the destruction of wildlife in the Tara, a world...
Earth Overshoot Day is August 22 but Balkans already spent most of 2020 environmental credit
31 July 2020 - The COVID-19 pandemic reduced the overconsumption of nature’s capacity to levels from 15 years ago,...
Dubrovnik to abolish single-use plastics by 2030
31 July 2020 - The City of Dubrovnik has committed itself to reducing its environmental footprint by eliminating single-use...
Abandoning single-use plastic is possible – let’s follow this good example
31 July 2020 - As the global Plastic Free July campaign is drawing to a close, people are becoming...
EU preparing CO2 tax for products from other countries
29 July 2020 - The European Commission launched public consultations on taxation rules that would help its climate agenda....
Croatia gets its first ministry of sustainable development
29 July 2020 - Croatia got its first ministry of sustainable development, which merged the sectors of environmental protection,...
Energy companies in Montenegro to invest EUR 734 million by 2024, EUR 1 billion in total
27 July 2020 - Energy companies in Montenegro plan to invest more than EUR 1 billion, of which EUR...
E-waste is mostly landfilled, harming environment instead of being recycled
24 July 2020 - The world is far behind international targets in tracking and recycling e-waste, a comprehensive report...
Climate change challenges for chemicals sector are increasing
23 July 2020 - Storms, floods, droughts and heat will disrupt the supply of chemicals as climate change impact...
Norway sets aside EUR 2.1 billion to develop carbon capture, storage
22 July 2020 - Equinor is working with Shell and Total on transferring liquefied CO2 through a pipeline to...
EU cuts Just Transition Fund to EUR 10 billion in COVID-19 recovery deal
21 July 2020 - The European Council reached an agreement on the seven-year budget through 2027 including a mechanism...
Ten units of Western Balkan thermal power plants must be shut down by 2023
21 July 2020 - Ten units of coal-fired power plants in total will be shut down by the end of 2023 in BiH, Montenegro and Serbia, according to the Energy Transition Tracker
Reducing use of coal to get cleaner air in Sarajevo
20 July 2020 - Authorities in Sarajevo plan to limit the use of coal in order to start solving...
CINS: Official air quality monitoring data for Serbia are unreliable
20 July 2020 - Some automatic stations that measure air pollution in Serbia were out of service for years...
Fool’s Gold: Financial institutions waste billions on coal, undermining climate action
15 July 2020 - European financial institutions and international investors and banks including BlackRock and Japanese megabanks are keeping...