ActNow! – Here’s what you can do to save Earth from climate change
The United Nations has launched a new climate campaign called ActNow to encourage individual action on climate change. Here is what we have to add: Change your patterns and routines – to save the planet, both collective and individual change is required. This is what YOU can do as an individual to save Earth from […]
Greece, Slovenia among five EU countries to introduce new fossil fuel subsidies – report
Five EU countries including the UK, Germany, Greece, Poland, and Slovenia are looking to introduce new fossil fuel subsidies by 2030, an analysis of the 28 Member States’ draft energy and climate plans (NECPs) has revealed. In a new report, “Fossil fuel subsidies in draft EU National Energy and Climate Plans: Shortcomings and final call […]
What can President Trump learn from the Danes? Answer provided by Ida Auken
“If it doesn’t blow, you can forget about television for that night”. This remark on wind farms by Donald Trump is just one of many in his attempt to derogate green energy and to praise the fossil fuels industry. Trump withdrew the US from the Paris agreement in 2017, and rolled back many rules introduced […]
July 2019 was hottest month on record for the planet
July 2019 was the hottest month on record for the planet, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has said in a press release. The record warmth also shrank Arctic and Antarctic sea ice to historic lows. The average global temperature in July was 1.71°F (0.95°C) above the 20th-century average of 60.4°F (15.8°C), making […]
The climate bus
Author: Professor Vladimir Đurđević, PhD, the Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade Increasingly frequent floods, droughts, wildfires, and weather disasters that are no longer happening only “out there” come as no surprise to climatologists. All this was forecast decades ago, in reports whose clear conclusion is that the only way to steer a different course […]
Let the sunshine in, say civil society groups
Author: Igor Vejnović, Hydropower Coordinator, CEE Bankwatch Network Eight civil society organisations last week submitted proposals for a revamp of Serbia’s renewables support scheme to the Ministry of Energy and Mining. All across Europe, renewables incentive schemes have been transformed in recent years to take account of the growing costs of feed-in tariffs for end […]
Call issued for climate change projects to be funded by Green Climate Fund
Serbia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management, in cooperation with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), has invited all interested parties to submit project ideas for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to climate change at the national level whose implementation requires funds from the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The deadline for submitting climate […]
TENDERING: Study on economic impact of climate change on Trebišnjica hydrosystem
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Bosnia and Herzegovina has launched tendering for the development of study on the economic impact of climate change on the hydropower sector in Republika Srpska – the multipurpose hydrosystem Trebišnjica. The deadline to file bid expires on July 25. The UNDP in BiH is implementing the National Adaptation […]