GGF provides EUR 1 million loan to MI-BOSPO for energy efficiency in BiH

The Green for Growth Fund (GGF) has secured a senior loan of EUR 1 million to MI-BOSPO to promote energy efficiency among microbusinesses and private households in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). MI-BOSPO is a microcredit institution committed to expanding green finance to otherwise underserved customers, and which promotes energy efficiency measures among these customers with […]

Expressions of interest sought to build, finance 160 MW Dabar hydropower plant

Hidroelektrana Dabar, part of hydropower plant operator Hidroelektrane na Trebišnjici (HET), has invited expressions of interest (EOI) in a turnkey/engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for a 160 MW Dabar hydropower plant (HPP Dabar). The estimated value of the project to build and finance HPP Dabar’s remaining facilities is around EUR 200 million, according to […]

River flow regulation, sedimentation, renewable energy investment core of new project in the Drina River Basin

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia have agreed to jointly investigate options for formalizing river flow regulation, occurrence of erosion and sedimentation, as well as ways to promote investment into renewable energy in the framework of a new project funded by the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea and implemented by United Nations […]

Study on Bosut Forests’ ecosystem services: How to achieve better flood protection, income from wood production, traditional animal husbandry

If environmental flooding of the forest complex of the Bosut Forests and an increase of traditional animal husbandry are implemented along with the joint management and establishment of a protected area, the value of four ecosystem services selected as the most important for the area, which lays between Serbia, BiH, and Croatia – wood production, […]

Republika Srpska government adopts packaging, waste packaging management decree

The Republika Srpska government has adopted a decree on packaging and waste packaging management. The decree regulates matters such as packaging design, production, and use, packaging and waste packaging management, and permit issuance for operators, according to a news release on the Bosnian Serb entity government’s website. The decree is aimed at helping conserve natural […]