Excessive air pollution in Valjevo triggers Air Quality Alert
The air quality in Valjevo has been in the highest category, designated as "very polluted," ever since measuring began in 2012. According to official data, the city had the highest annual level of suspended particles PM10 and PM2.5 in Serbia last year.
Belgrade University professors warn politicians failure to phase out coal will be more costly than any decarbonization measures
It will be more expensive for the country to did nothing to reduce CO2 emissions, than to implement decarbonization measures.
Global warming is on pace for catastrophic 3.3º C without drastic measures
Up to USD 130 trillion in new investments is necessary to avert the current global warming scenario.
CINS: Official air quality monitoring data for Serbia are unreliable
Some automatic stations that measure air pollution in Serbia were out of service for years and others recorded partial or unreliable data amid a lack of funding. The state lowered reporting standards since the system was rolled out ten years ago. The capacity of domestic automatic monitoring stations has been decreasing since 2010, when they […]
Environmentalist groups unite to protest small hydropower, pollution in Serbia
More than forty environmentalist organizations participated at the demonstration in front of the building of the Government of Serbia in Belgrade against the construction of thermal power plants on coal and demanding a ban on the run-of-river or derivative-type hydropower plants. The movement that has been urging authorities in Serbia to abolish the construction of […]
The climate bus
Author: Professor Vladimir Đurđević, PhD, the Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade Increasingly frequent floods, droughts, wildfires, and weather disasters that are no longer happening only “out there” come as no surprise to climatologists. All this was forecast decades ago, in reports whose clear conclusion is that the only way to steer a different course […]
Serbia’s first Fridays for Future climate protest held in Belgrade
Serbia’s first Fridays for Future climate change protest was held in Belgrade on April 5. The global Fridays for Future protests were inspired by the now 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, who in 2018 held what she called a school strike for climate for three weeks outside the Swedish parliament, demanding CO2 emission cuts in accordance with […]
Climate Change: Simple Stories about a Complicated Problem – lecture series begins today at Kolarac
Professor Vladimir Đurđević, PhD, of the Institute of Meteorology, the Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, will hold three lectures in a series titled Climate Change: Simple Stories about a Complicated Problem at the Foundation of Ilija M. Kolarac on October 11, 18 and 25, from 6 pm. The first lecture, scheduled for October 11, […]