Environment
Serbia digitalizes permitting in energy sector
10 July 2024 - Serbia rolled out digital services for energy permitting and the procedure for environmental impact assessment studies
Serbian police charge local activists for resisting revival of Rio Tinto’s lithium project
08 July 2024 - Seven people were arrested and criminally charged in Loznica at a protest against Rio Tinto's project for a lithium mine and processing plant
Beo Čista Energija officially starts producing energy from waste at Vinča landfill in Belgrade
03 July 2024 - Beo Čista Energija started the waste incineration in February 2023 as a final phase of testing its waste-to-energy facility
Environmental activists, citizens to intensify protests against lithium mining in Serbia
29 June 2024 - The movement against Rio Tinto's lithium project demanded a ban on exploration and mining, threatening to radicalize resistance
Montenegro, BiH agree to repeat environmental study for HPP Buk Bijela
28 June 2024 - Negotiations on the dispute between BiH and Montenegro around the Buk Bijela hydropower project are yielding results
Green Steel from Sremska Mitrovica – responsible industry for sustainable future
24 June 2024 - Serbian company Metalfer Group, whose production portfolio includes the so-called Metalfer® Green Steel, has demonstrated that steelmaking can be sustainable and responsible
French firms to build, operate Belgrade’s first wastewater plant
24 June 2024 - The large-scale wastewater plant in Veliko Selo would help preserve the water quality and biodiversity of the Danube and Sava rivers
Vučić: Serbia to reapprove Rio Tinto’s stalled lithium project with EU guarantees
17 June 2024 - Serbia is ready to again endorse Rio Tinto's lithium mining and processing project, according to President Aleksandar Vučić
Rio Tinto releases draft environmental impact assessments for Jadar Project
13 June 2024 - Rio Tinto has said it has voluntarily released preliminary drafts of environmental impact assessment studies for its lithium mining project Jadar
Prime Minister Vučević: Serbia should discuss all development projects, including lithium
12 June 2024 - Serbia's new government supports all development projects, including mining, which includes lithium, says Prime Minister Miloš Vučević
Electric buses are taking over Europe – they outran diesel bus sales in 2023
07 June 2024 - Electric buses have reached 36% of new city bus sales in 2023 in the EU, overtaking diesel as the main type for the first time
World Oceans Day 2024: Awaken New Depths
07 June 2024 - Awaken New Depths is the slogan for this year's World Oceans Day, which has been celebrated every June 8 since 2008
Serbia halts wind farm project for first time
05 June 2024 - This is the first case in Serbia where the construction of a wind power plant has been effectively prohibited
World Environment Day 2024: Our land, our future
05 June 2024 - World Environment Day 2024 slogan is “Our land. Our future. We are #GenerationRestoration.”
CBAM ante portas – the ball is in Serbia’s court to facilitate conditions for its companies
12 May 2024 - Industrial players in Serbia have all the knowhow for minimizing emissions and participating in the country's environmental renewal, according to Lafarge Serbia's CEO Dimitrije Knjeginjić
Artificial intelligence can detect toxicity of chemicals
03 May 2024 - Swedish scientists have developed a method using artificial intelligence (AI) to identify toxic chemicals based solely on knowledge of their molecular structure