Green jobs potential in Macedonia
This article has been developed as per the assessment of the climate change mitigation potential within the Macedonian Intended Nationally Determined Contributions on Climate Change to the UNFCCC by a group of authors: Prof. Dr. Neven Duić, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Prof. Dr. Nataša Markovska, Research Center for Energy […]
Energy development stands above politics
Countries in the region, and generally in Europe, have strained budgets because of economic and political difficulties, so investments in green energy can be spurred through public–private partnership, Aleksandra Tomić, President of the Committee on Economy, Regional Development, Trade, Tourism and Energy at the National Assembly of Republic Serbia, told Balkan Green Energy News. She […]
Green energy boost comes with policy improvement
By Katarina Uherova Hasbani, Energy Policy and Business Development Consultant, EIR Global and the lead author of REN21 UNECE Renewable Energy Status Report in 2015 E-mail: kuhasbano@eirglobal.eu South East Europe stays on the margins of global renewable energy investment despite its proximity to EU market Seventeen countries of South East and East Europe, the Caucasus, […]
UNDP publishes country snapshots on climate change
By Christoph S. Henrich, Sustainable Energy Consultant, Istanbul Regional Hub, United Nations Development Programme in Europe and Central Asia E-mail: christoph.henrich@undp.org One problem of the international climate change debate is that the information presented in technical documents, such as in national communications that are submitted by parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), […]
BioRES project wraps up first year of implementation
BioRES – Sustainable Regional Supply Chains for Woody Bioenergy is a project of 30 months which started in January 2015, financed by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation fund. In the first year of implementation, four steering comities were organized in Freising, Germany; Joensuu, Finland; Novi Sad, Serbia; and Graz, Austria. Activities consisted […]
Building energy efficient residential sector with EBRD
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is fostering energy efficiency in the residential sector of Kosovo* with an additional EUR 1 million loan to Kreditimi Rural i Kosovës (KRK), one of the strongest rural microfinance lenders in the country. The new funding is being provided under the Kosovo* Sustainable Energy Projects Framework (KoSEP) in […]
Net metering – photovoltaic sector’s only hope
Many member countries of the European Union are increasing their reliance on fossil energy, much of it imported, despite large domestic renewable resources and the fact that the European Union (EU) has pledged to develop renewables totalling 20% of all generation capacity before 2020 and 50% of all capacity before mid-century. As Lee Buchsbaum outlines […]
Serbia to ratify climate change deal within one year
The agreement adopted on December 12 at the United Nations Climate Conference (COP21) in Paris should be ratified by Serbia within one year, the country’s minister of agriculture and environmental protection Snežana Bogosavljević –Bošković said, Beta news agency’s environmental section Zelena Srbija reported. “The plan is to complete the signing and ratification within one year,” […]
