Un pacte financier pour sauver le climat séduit d’Alain Juppé à Podemos
February 19, 2019
Ce projet de traité, signé par 600 personnalités, prévoit notamment la création d’une banque européenne du climat et d’un fonds spécifique, totalisant 300 milliards d’euros par an. Un pacte financier pour sauver le climat séduit d’Alain Juppé à Podemos
Environmentalists seek tougher EU curbs on Balkan coal power plants
February 19, 2019
Environmentalists urged EU policy makers on Tuesday to take a tougher stance on air pollution from coal power plants in the Western Balkans, blaming the fumes for 3,900 deaths across Europe each year. Environmentalists seek tougher EU curbs on Balkan coal power plants.
EU action on Western Balkans’ chronic coal pollution is a unique opportunity to improve health and productivity
February 19, 2019
Brussels – Sixteen outdated coal power plants in the Western Balkans are a public health and economic liability for the whole of Europe, with people in the EU bearing the majority of the health impacts and costs, according to a new report [1] by the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), Sandbag, Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, CEE Bankwatch Network and Europe Beyond Coal. The European Union (EU) needs to use all of the tools available to improve health, prolong lives, save health costs and increase productivity both in the EU and in the Western Balkan region.
Parliament moves to make EU cohesion policy greener
February 13, 2019
The EU has moved a step closer to making its cohesion policy climate-proof after the European parliament voted to exclude fossil fuels from regional programme funding Parliament moves to make EU cohesion policy greener
Croatian coal plant must not be resurrected
February 13, 2019
The Plomin 1 coal plant, on Croatia’s Istrian coast, is already 50 years old. In 2017 it closed due to a fire. Yet the Croatian Ministry of Environmental Protection and Energy looks set to allow Plomin 1’s owner, HEP, to bring it back from the dead without even an environmental impact assessment.
Serbia synon të fillojë termocentralin e ri në fund të vitit 2020
February 5, 2019
Kostolac B3, termocentrali i ri i Serbisë me kapacitet prej 350 megavatësh, do të fillojë prodhimin në fund të vitit 2020, sipas Ministrit të Energjisë të këtij vendi. Kostolac B3 paraqet vetëm hapin e parë të Serbisë në rrugëtimin drejt pozitës së liderit energjetik ne rajon.
Castilla-La Mancha anuncia que subvencionará estaciones de servicio expendedoras de combustibles fósiles
January 30, 2019
La consejera castellano-manchega de Economía, Empresas y Empleo, Patricia Franco, anunció ayer que su gobierno va a subvencionar el establecimiento de puntos de repostaje de gas en la región (el gas natural es un combustible fósil, cuya extracción, transporte y quema produce emisiones de CO2 y otros gases de efecto invernadero, desencadenantes de cambio climático).
Towards a just transition for the Upper Nitra region
January 24, 2019
Priatelia ZEME – CEPA and CEE Bankwatch are today launching a set of recommendations to feed into the Just Transition debate taking place in Upper Nitra and at the national level in Slovakia. The recommendations come in a context when Just Transition i
New jobs in the process of transformation of the Upper Nitra region (in Slovak)
January 24, 2019
This paper focuses on a brief outline of concrete steps to turn Upper Nitra towards a low carbon future. In particular, it is to stop further public subsidies to fossil energy – especially lignite mining and burning – and urgently redirect public funds
A New Year’s resolution for Novaci – clean air
January 15, 2019
Macedonia made headlines in December when the United Nations ranked its capital city, Skopje, as the most polluted capital city in Europe. If the ranking included non-capitals, it would not miss Novaci – a small village in the country’s south that also gasps for breath.
