Energy Community’s Secretariat sends draft climate change law to ministry
The Energy Community’s Secretariat has submitted to the Kosovo* ministry of environment a draft new climate change law, according to a statement from the Secretariat. This new climate change law would be transposing Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 on a mechanism for monitoring and reporting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the Recommendation of the Ministerial Council […]
Climate change bill expected to be sent to lawmakers by end-2018
The public debate on the draft law on climate change has wrapped up, and the future bill is expected to be submitted to the parliament by the end of 2018, Environmental Protection Minister Goran Trivan said at the EU-Serbia Talanoa High-Level Conference in Belgrade, held as part of the Talanoa Dialogue for Climate Ambition. The […]
Macedonian climate change challenges and perspectives
Author: Nataša Markovska, Senior Researcher and Professor, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts The article was initially published on portal klimatskipromeni.mk The Paris Agreement represents a dramatic departure from the past 20 years of climate negotiations, providing a broad foundation for meaningful progress on climate change. It is underpinned by the intended nationally determined contributions […]
Government adopts proposal of Energy Concept of Slovenia
The Slovenian government has defined the text of the proposal of a resolution on the Energy Concept of Slovenia, a framework document laying out the country’s long-term energy goals, and sent it to the parliament for adoption. The document envisages lowering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 80% by 2050 compared to the 1990 […]
Energy Community Secretariat : WB6 countries making progress in sustainability
The six Western Balkans (WB6) countries have achieved progress in a number of measures of the Sustainability Charter, but there is also room for improvement, the Energy Community Secretariat assessed in its “WB6 Sustainability Charter Monitoring Report”. The six Western Balkans countries, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, signed a Sustainability Charter […]
Government of FBiH adopts GHG emissions agreement
Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted the Agreement on cooperation in the field of environmental protection, certification and decrease of GHG emissions, methodology for evaluation of the quality of infrastructure and energy efficiency of renewables. The agreement was concluded between the Federal Ministry of Environmental Protection and Tourism and the Center for […]
Slovenia adopts proposed draft of EU directive on renewables
The Government of Slovenia adopted the proposed draft of a European Parliament and European Council directive for promotion of energy from renewable sources. Slovenia supports the binding EU target of at least 27 percent energy from renewable sources in gross final energy consumption by 2030. Slovenia agreed that EU member states should determine by themselves […]
UNDP project for local communities more resilient to climate change
The project “Local development resilient to climate change” officially started with the signing of the project document by project’s partners representatives: Stana Božović, state secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection and Steliana Nedera, deputy UNDP representative . “The aim of the project is to identify the needs of municipal governments, primarily in […]