Serbian representative elected for two eminent European positions
At the meeting of the European Environment and Health Task Force (EHTF) of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe), Biljana Filipović Đušić, Assistant Minister for international cooperation at the Serbian Ministry of environmental protection, has become a member of the EHTF Bureau, the task force’s managing body, along with seven other […]
Macedonia has activated emergency measures against air-pollution
High concentration of air-pollutants has been gripping several cities in Macedonia in last few days, primarily Skopje, the capital, and Strumica, near the border-crossing with Bulgaria. Due to exceptional air pollution, a number of emergency measures have been activated in an attempt to cope with the consequences. According to local media reports today, the air […]
Strengthening regional cooperation towards environmental and health safety
Elizabet Paunović, Head of World Health Organization (WHO)’s European Center for Environment and Health, explains in an interview for the Balkan Green Energy News how air pollution is responsible for various diseases and hundreds of thousands of premature deaths in Europe. Paunović says that WHO’s focus in the region, apart from the air quality, is […]
Serbia needs to tackle air pollution and water quality to protect health of its citizens
Serbia will have to work on the scaling down air pollution and securing better access to clean water in the coming years in order to improve and protect health of its population. In this endeavor it can rely on the help and support of various UN agencies as well the EU, the Round table on […]