greenhouse gas emissions
Serbia proposes taxes on greenhouse gas emissions, imported carbon-intensive products
03 October 2025 - The draft Law on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Tax and draft Law on Carbon-Intensive Product Imports Tax in Serbia both envisage EUR 4 per ton of CO2 equivalent
EPBiH receives EUR 2 million from KfW for green, market-oriented transformation
24 September 2025 - Germany's KfW Development Bank is donating EUR 2 million to Elektroprivreda Bosne i Hercegovine (EPBiH) in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zagreb rolls out public bike system
28 August 2025 - Croatia's capital has introduced a public bike system aimed at reducing traffic congestion, emissions, air pollution, and noise.
EU outlines measures for 90% emissions cut by 2040
02 July 2025 - A proposed amendment to the European Climate Law sets a 2040 target of a 90% reduction in net greenhouse gas emissions
Montenegro publishes NECP for public consultation – sole coal plant planned for shutdown in 2041
30 June 2025 - The retirement of the Pljevlja coal plant is planned for 2041, but it depends on a just transition and supply security, the draft NECP reads
Slovenia sells Europe’s first sustainability bond, worth EUR 1 billion
27 June 2025 - Slovenia's inaugural sustainability-linked bond, and the first sovereign one in Europe, was oversubscribed by more than 6.5 times
World Bank: Carbon pricing schemes cover 28% of global emissions
16 June 2025 - Carbon pricing schemes include about half of global emissions from electricity generation and industry, the World Bank says.
Ember: Warming’s 2024 share of global power demand rise was covered with fossil fuels
09 April 2025 - Renewables and nuclear energy met 79,1% of 2024 global power demand growth. The fossil fuels share was bigger than the part attributed to the annual rise in temperatures.
Croatia among EU’s top three emitters of methane from oil, gas industry
08 April 2025 - The first large independent analysis in Croatia of methane emissions from the oil and gas infrastructure was carried out, according to Greenpeace Croatia
Croatia earmarks EUR 1.6 billion for Social Plan for Climate Policy
08 April 2025 - The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Green Transition has presented the Social Plan for Climate Policy and the EU ETS 2
Trump administration suspends USD 20 billion in emissions reduction funding
12 March 2025 - The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has frozen USD 20 billion in funding for greenhouse gas reduction projects.
Croatia raises 2030 renewables target to 42.5%
15 November 2024 - Croatia increased all the most important targets in its updated National Energy and Climate Plan for the period 2021-2030