Promises for coal jobs in southeastern Europe greatly exaggerated – study
Proponents of coal have overall claimed that 10,030 jobs would be maintained and 17,600 new jobs created, while according to new analysis a reduction of workplaces by around 5,170 is more likely, CEE Bankwatch Network said in a press release. A study The great coal jobs fraud covering eight southeast European countries – Bosnia and […]
Long-term energy and climate planning in Southeast Europe
Authors: Mak Đukan (second from left), Starfish Energy, mak@starfishenergy.org, and Andreas Tuerk (first from left), Joanneum Research, andreas.tuerk@joanneum.at The new Energy union governance regulation was finally agreed upon and it applies both to Southeast European EU member states and Energy Community countries. Under these new regulations, member states and EC countries will have to develop a National Energy […]
Energy Community and WISE project: women have a significant role in energy transition – support them!
Women are increasingly significant in the energy transition of South-East Europe (SEE) and their role is growing in importance, but it is necessary to support them and work to further strengthen their capacities, visibility, and representation. Following the successful realization of the first phase in Serbia, the Women in Sustainable Energy SEE (WISE SEE) project […]
Petition handed to EBRD calling on IFIs to drop “destructive hydropower in the Balkans”
Representatives from the Save the Blue Heart of Europe campaign to save the continent’s last undammed rivers have handed in a petition endorsed globally by more than 120,000 people, calling on international development banks to rein in financial support for hydropower projects in the Balkans, according to a press release from CEE Bankwatch Network, one […]
Environment and biodiversity working groups meet back to back in Skopje
Conservation of biological diversity is a specific, yet crucial, part of the wider all-encompassing umbrella of environmental protection. With the objective of stepping up cooperation and combining efforts, Biodiversity Task Force members of the six South East European economies met on 29 May to confirm a joint Work Plan and agree on future cooperation, which […]
Multi-stakeholder approach in achieving clean energy transition important and necessary, second Sustainability Forum hears
The second Sustainability Forum took place on June 22 in Vienna, gathering more than 120 participants from a multi-stakeholder environment actively engaged in the process of the energy transition of the Energy Community’s contracting parties. The Forum’s participants agreed that energy transition has already started bringing new models into focus of the energy sector development, […]
Energy Community issues guidance on preparation of National Energy and Climate Plans
Integrated National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) should cover the period from 2021 to 2030, including a perspective until 2050, in order to ensure consistency with long-term relevant policy objectives at the EU, UNFCCC and Energy Community level, the Energy Community Secretariat said in a guidance on the preparation of NECPs. The Secretariat has issued […]
Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria have no plans for introducing tenders for renewables – CEER
Eleven European countries, including Slovenia, Romania, and Bulgaria, have no concrete plans for introducing tenders for renewable energy sources (RES) in the short term, while Croatia has indicated it will start with tendering procedures for biomass this year, according to the Council of the European Energy Regulators’ (CEER) Tendering procedures for RES in Europe: State […]