Status of the Territorial Just Transition Plans in central and eastern Europe: July 2021 update
July 8, 2021
This briefing is the third in our series of updates on the Territorial Just Transition Plan (TJTP) preparation process in seven central and eastern European (CEE) countries: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.
Assessment of Bulgaria’s recovery and resilience plan
May 21, 2021
This briefing provides an overview of Bulgaria’s proposed measures (as of 16 April) for spending funds from the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility. Although the plan proposes some positive measures for the environment and climate, it also includes i
Opportunities for biodiversity and environment missed in Bulgarian recovery plan
April 15, 2021
Instead of reforms, the country plans to rehab an irrigation system that can potentially destroy wetlands, and without transparency and public dialogue, the plan cements business-as-usual. With a 30 April deadline for submitting national recovery plans approaching and recent parliamentary elections, the Bulgarian government is failing to propose reforms and measures for biodiversity, sustainable agriculture and low carbon economy. Instead, actions such as rehabilitating state-owned irrigation systems not only contradict national strategies but might damage valuable wetland habitats. A lack of transparency and public dialogue casts a further shadow on the process.
Demonstrators demand cleaner skies as Bulgaria presses on with incinerator
March 26, 2021
Close to one hundred people from Sofia and the industrial northern town of Devnya took to the streets of the capital in protest against incineration and the air pollution affecting both towns, where the government pushes ahead with false solutions to the EU’s circular economy agenda.
How Bulgaria’s Mining Strategy can make the ICT industry more sustainable
May 11, 2020
Bulgaria’s National strategy for development of the mining industry was adopted in 2015 and identifies the country’s great potential to be a regional leader in the mining sector. However, before this can happen, the Strategy must be revised to take new sustainability standards, market factors, and environmental stressors into account.
The wind of change is still far from Galabovo
May 5, 2020
The Maritsa East Complex in Bulgaria, the largest energy complex in South-East Europe, has become notorious in the region and in the European Union for its complete disregard for environmental and social safeguards.
Bulgaria’s EU presidency off to rocky start, as protests highlight EU funds for nature destruction
February 19, 2018
Unwanted limelight shines on Bulgaria as country plows ahead with Cohesion funds for the destruction of the Pirin National Park
Ponovo razmotriti planove
August 19, 2017
Države koje planiraju nove elektrane na ugalj, među kojim je i Crna Gora, moraju ponovo da razmotre investicione planove, kao i finansijske implikacije ovih projekata kako bi se osiguralo da su oni zaista u skladu sa novim, strožim standardima EU, poka
Grin houm: EU objavila nova pravila o zagađenju iz TE, vlade regiona nijesu spremne za primjenu
August 17, 2017
„S obzirom na to da većina zemalja Zapadnog Balkana usvaja zakone koji se eksplicitno odnose na standarde EU za najbolje raspoložive tehnike, od sada se dozvole za nove elektrane moraju zasnivati na BREF-u LCP-a (Large Combustion Plants)“, kaže se u s
Drugi blok TE mora na popravni
August 14, 2017
Prethodno je analiza CEE Bankwatch mreže pokazala da gotovo nijedna planirana TE na zapadnom Balkanu, među kojima i je i drugi blok TE Pljevlja, neće ispuniti nove, strože standarde zagađenosti Source: Drugi blok TE mora na popravni – Vijesti.me
