Balkan Energy Coordinator
Email: davor AT bankwatch.orgTel.: +389 71 264 087
More from Davor Pehchevski
The REK Bitola mining and energy complex in North Macedonia is one of Europe’s most lethal polluters – but, despite local protests, and clear evidence of its harm, the authorities have yet to act.
This briefing reviews the progress of five Western Balkan countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia) on the transposition and implementation of the EU’s Air Quality Directive
On the side lines of this year’s UN climate change conference in Glasgow, more than 40 people from around the world joined our initiative to run 20.30 kilometres to support the science-backed need for a coal phase-out by 2030.
The heroic dust monitor
July 22, 2021 | Read more
This year we are marking five years since Bankwatch engaged in air pollution work in the Balkans. Throughout these years, there was one constant in the work – the environmental dust monitor. It has become the hero of many communities and is known to every organisation in the region that works for cleaner air.
One of the leading reasons for the extremely polluted air are the outdated and substandard coal-fired power plants in the region. The 16 plants operating in the Western Balkan countries emit as much sulphur dioxide and dust pollution as the entire fleet of coal plants in the EU.
