Airbus uses biomass for heating
The French aircraft manufacturer Airbus uses woodchips to heat its production facilities after Polytechnik company has installed a new biomass fueled boiler to produce thermal energy. The Austrian company renowned for its advanced combustion solutions using biomass to provide energy has reported that the installed boiler is to produce saturated steam with the heat output […]
Greece only EU member from Balkans that cuts emissions in 2015
While carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion increased by 0.7% last year in the European Union, results in countries followed by Balkan Green Energy News are mixed. Bulgaria fared the worst, fifth in the group registering an increase, according to data released by Eurostat. Slovakia led the jump with 9.5%, followed by Portugal, Hungary […]
City of Gaziantep unveils climate change action plan
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said it is supporting the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep in an ambitious set of policies to tackle climate change by cutting emissions by 20% by 2023. The plan for dramatic improvement in the environment is laid out in a comprehensive document launched by deputy mayor Latif […]
Crisis alerted firms, citizens about wasting of energy
In the three-day congress held last month in Nicosia, gathering more than 800 participants from 41 countries, the representative of Cyprus was Anthi Charalambous, the director of Cyprus Energy Agency (CEA). She presented the country’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions and transition towards renewable sources of energy, In-Cyprus reported. Municipal authorities achieved a reduction of […]
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,” […]
Oil belongs in the soil, environmentalists say
Friends of the Earth (FoE) Cyprus organised an event in Nicosia to highlight the upcoming Climate Summit in Paris by symbolically burying fossil fuels and saying: ‘Oil must be kept in the soil’, Cyprus Mail reported. Members of the public who took part wrote down solutions and actions to tackle climate change, and build a […]
Agricultural biomass in the Western Balkans
Authors are members of Serbian National Association SERBIO: Vojislav Milijić, president, Tomislav Micović, vice-president and Zorica Gluvakov, secretary. Most of the Western Balkans are situated in mountain areas, however there are significant portions of agricultural and arable agricultural land utilized for growing crops such as wheat, corn, soya, sunflower and others. Arable agricultural land used […]
Earth’s energy imbalance and climate change
By Vladimir Đurđević, Institute of Meteorology, Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, vdj@ff.bg.ac.rs Planet Earth is in energy imbalance. More energy is coming into the system than leaving it. It is a fact that can be measured, thanks to the many observations of the state of the climate system that we have today. Natural quasi-equilibrium state […]