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Home > Archives for environmental protection

environmental protection

World set to miss critical biodiversity 2020 targets

May 15, 2020

International targets to tackle nature loss under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity are likely to be missed because “environmental protection has been incomplete, restoration has been smale-scale, and the implementation and enforcement of legis


Environmental organisations deplore ‘lost year’ for environmental protection

November 2, 2015

Brussels, November 2 – One year since the entry into office of the current European Commission headed by Jean-Claude Juncker, environmental groups have criticised the EU executive for a paralysis in policymaking on issues related to the environment.


European Commission opens infringement procedure against Romania over coal mine

December 4, 2014

Bucharest — The European Commission has opened an infringement case against Romania regarding the lignite quarry extension at the Rovinari complex in Gorj County. The Commission suspects Romania of not complying with the EU Directive concerning the environmental impact assessment of projects.


Bogus logic in Ukraine: A nature reserve not worth protecting

February 13, 2013

If you thought the purpose of a nature reserve is to protect wildlife from disruptive human interference, then you’re wrong – at least when it comes to nature that’s in the way of electricity infrastructure in Ukraine.


The European Commission, an EBRD shareholder that should start acting like one

March 1, 2012

Recent Balkan hydro projects suggest the European Commission could make much better use of its shareholder role in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.


BTC pipeline court case in Tbilisi, Georgia on January 20

January 15, 2004

The democratic values of Mikhail Saakashvili’s Georgia will come under scrutiny next week when Georgian environment group Green Alternative brings legal proceedings against the Georgian government and the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline Company (BTC Co).


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