just transition
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
Green resilience: How Kyiv is shaping a sustainable future amid crisis
01 October 2025 - Balkan Green Energy News, the media partner of the 2025 Just Transition Young Voices Awards, is publishing the three winning articles
Race against time to secure EU funding for waste-to-energy plants in Greece
18 September 2025 - Hostile public reactions and opposition by municipal authorities threaten to derail Greece's efforts to build six waste-to-energy plants
Bulgarian coal plant mulls replacing boiler with molten salt battery
15 September 2025 - The operator of the AES Maritsa Iztok 1 coal plant is interested in replacing one of its boilers with a molten salt reactor
Worrying results of coal, overburden production in BiH’s power utility
13 August 2025 - Increasing coal production is the only way to stabilize the energy system in the Federation of BiH, EPBiH CEO Sanel Buljubašić said
Greek coal region of Megalopolis opens new chapter after lignite
08 August 2025 - Megalopolis, in the Peloponnese peninsula, is one of Greece's two coal regions, along with Western Macedonia
Serbia adopts Just Energy Transition Plan until 2030
01 August 2025 - Serbia now has a Just Energy Transition Plan until 2030, with suggestions how to mitigate of the impact of reducing fossil fuel use
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
Ninth Energy Community Summer School gathers 40 participants in Montenegro from 28 countries
21 July 2025 - Forty young professionals and researchers from 28 countries gathered at the Faculty of Maritime Studies in Kotor, Montenegro
Energy Community marks 20th anniversary as integration pillar for Southeastern Europe
17 July 2025 - The Energy Community Ministerial Council held its annual informal meeting in Athens, where the organization was founded twenty years ago
Open call for green hydrogen high-efficiency CHP pilot plant in northern Greece
04 July 2025 - The Greek government has opened a call for a pilot CHP unit in Western Macedonia that would run on green hydrogen
NGOs request withdrawal of draft just transition action plan in Serbia
10 June 2025 - The presentation of the draft just transition action plan took place yesterday in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PKS) in Belgrade
Future Green Business conference highlights role of Croatian companies, EU-Africa partnership in climate action
09 June 2025 - The International Institute for Climate Action (IICA) held its third Future Green Business conference in Zagreb
Western Balkans urged to step up just transition measures
02 June 2025 - In its guidelines for the just transition, the Energy Community Secretariat said the Western Balkans lack policies and measures
Serbia drafts just transition action plan
30 May 2025 - The Ministry of Mining and Energy has published a draft just transition action plan and launched a public debate
BEF 2025: Regional cooperation can facilitate energy transition, energy security
22 May 2025 - Belgrade Energy Forum featured representatives from the governments of Montenegro, Croatia, Hungary, the Republic of Srpska, and Serbia, and from UNECE