environment
Europe’s Environment 2025 report: Not good
30 September 2025 - Europe’s Environment 2025 is the most comprehensive analysis on the current state and outlook for the continent’s environment, climate, and sustainability, building on data from across 38 countries, according to the European Environment Agency
WISE Serbia Annual Women’s Network Event – October 16 in Belgrade
29 September 2025 - The Center for the Promotion of Sustainable Development and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH are organizing the annual WISE Serbia Women’s Network event, which will take place on October 16 at Fabrika Events in Belgrade.
EU reaches water pollution prevention deal but with deadlines of up to 20 years
29 September 2025 - EU co-legislators agreed to update rules on surface and groundwater pollution, but with a timeline of up to two decades for member states
EU opens energy, environment cluster in accession talks with Albania
17 September 2025 - Albania started negotiations with the European Union on the so-called cluster 4, encompassing the green agenda and sustainable connectivity
Environmental approvals for 403 MW of wind power on Montenegrin mountain
16 September 2025 - Companies intend to build wind power plants of 403 MW in total on Sinjajevina mountain, a vast pastureland in Montenegro
Environmentalists warn EU that Bulgaria ignores coal plants breaching pollution rules
09 September 2025 - Greenpeace Bulgaria and Za Zemiata wrote a complaint to the European Commission as the authorities are ignoring environmental breaches at four coal plants
Eco bride Milica Lukić celebrates love with sustainable wedding
28 August 2025 - The wedding of Milica Lukić, a researcher and environmental activist, shows that celebrating love can be ceremonial and moving while remaining sustainable.
Applications for 2025 Female Leader in Sustainable Energy Award in Serbia opened
25 August 2025 - WISE Serbia, the Network of Women in sustainable energy, climate action, and environment, under the auspices of the German development cooperation GIZ, announces the call for nominations for the 2025 Female Leader in Sustainable Energy Award
Deanovec PV project near Zagreb conditionally passes environmental assessment
22 August 2025 - No environmental impact assessment or assessment of acceptability for the network of protected areas is required for the 65.7 MW Deanovec solar power project in Croatia.
EU donates EUR 240 million to Serbia for environment, energy efficiency
07 August 2025 - The EU approved EUR 240 million in non-repayable assistance to Serbia from IPA funds for projects worth an overall EUR 325.2 million
Court suspends Hidroelectrica’s hydropower project by stopping deforestation
06 August 2025 - The almost complete Răstolița hydropower project in Romania, started in the late 1980s, is stuck again over a dispute regarding deforestation
Council of Europe urges North Macedonia to improve environment, protect Romas from disproportionate risks
29 July 2025 - North Macedonia should bridge the gap between commitments and reality on human rights of Romas and environmental protection, the Council of Europe said
Turkish renewables firm to drill for geothermal lithium
26 July 2025 - Margün Energy intends to search for lithium in geothermal water in western Turkey, where it took over a 12 MW geothermal power plant
Germany supports Serbia in clean energy supply, environmental protection
22 July 2025 - Serbia and KfW signed a EUR 135 million loan for the second phase of the Green Transition Development Policy Operation (DPO II) program
Three cities reviving protests against Rio Tinto’s lithium project in Serbia
20 July 2025 - Opponents of Rio Tinto's plan to mine and process a lithium and boron ore called jadarite in western Serbia held a protest in Loznica
Ireland ends coal use – Spain, Italy, Greece set to follow
24 June 2025 - The last coal plants in several countries in the European Union are operating only barely or occasionally