Buk Bijela dam and the Upper Drina cascade
December 13, 2021
Planned as a joint project of public utilities owned by the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, Buk Bijela on the upper Drina is being pushed forward in violation of local legislation and international conventions.
Neretva ugrožena planovima za izgradnju hidroelektrane – potrebna hitna procena stanja
December 6, 2021
Izvršni odbor Bernske konvencije o zaštiti evropskih divljih životinja i prirodnih staništa zaključio je da je neophodna hitna procena …
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Failure to protect the upper Neretva river from eight planned hydropower plants
December 5, 2021
The EFT Group’s 35 MW Ulog plant, with a 53-metre high dam, is already being built by China’s Sinohydro. Construction works were already …
Planirano da se 38 kilometara Neretve pretvori u niz brana, cijevi i rezervoara
December 3, 2021
Održana sjednica izvršnog odbora Bernske konvencije
Neophodna hitna procjena stanja u gornjem toku Neretve
December 2, 2021
Na sjednici koja je održana danas, izvršni odbor Bernske konvencije o zaštiti evropskih divljih životinja i prirodnih staništa zaključio je …
Series of damaging hydropower plants on the Iskar river shows why the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive needs to be tightened
December 1, 2021
More than half of European rivers are on red alert – failing to reach good health as required until 2015 by the Water Framework Directive. …
EU funds should never harm nature, climate or the environment Statement of the Green 10 on the ‘do no significant harm’ principle
November 18, 2021
This statement, written together with the Green 10 and EuroNatur, outlines our main concerns about the application of the ‘do no significant harm’ principle to EU public funds. The EU intends to expand the application of this principle to a variety of
Bulgarian recovery plan improves after six-month impasse
November 5, 2021
After a six-month delay and three revisions, the EUR 6.6 billion Bulgarian national recovery and resilience plan has finally been submitted to the European Commission. Although this delay postpones its implementation, the plan is markedly improved particularly in terms of biodiversity protection, following dialogue between environmental groups and the authorities. The process shows the key role public participation can play in delivering a green recovery.
Aktuelle EU-Wasserpolitik fischt im Trüben
October 28, 2021
Ob die neue deutsche Regierung die Wasserrahmenrichtlinie wohl ernster nimmt als ihre Vorgängerinnen? Das fordern …
Lithuania – where ‘biodiversity funding’ is cutting down trees
October 22, 2021
The wooded picturesque old town of Trakai in Lithuania is part of the Trakai Historic National Park (Photo: Žygimantas Abromavičius)nListen …
