On 7th of October 2016, ENV.net partner in Albania (Co-PLAN) in collaboration with the Belgium partner EEB (European Environmental Bureau), organized the second round of training with the civil society organizations. The training was organised in one day and the thematic was dedicated to Industrial pollution, the legal framework and practices in EU countries. In[…..]
On 22nd of September, ATRC together with Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning, Municipality of Prishtina and Kosovo Police gathered in front of Ministry of Environment to mark “International Day Without Vehicles”. Around 50 volunteers joined in marking this day together with some primary school children. After the speech, people that participated in the event[…..]
On 22.09.2016, at the square “Goce Delchev” in Strumica was organised the final event of the project “Local campaign against climate change” implemented by Planetum,f Strumica, supported within the call of ENV.net Macedonia 2016 sub-granting scheme “Active Citizens for Greener Future ” The event was organised by Planetum, Strumica, in cooperation with the Macedonian ENV.net[…..]
On 15-16 September, a two-day Conference on IPA 2 mechanism for CSOs was held in Skopje. The conference was part of the “IPA 2 mechanism for CSOs” project, funded by the European Union within the IPA program for supporting civil society and the media. At the opening session Mr. Nicolas Bartolini, representing the European Union[…..]
On 14.09.2016, the Minister of Environment and Physical Planning, Mr. Bashkim Ameti held a meeting with representatives of civil society organisations that work on environmental issues. The aim of the event was for the new Minister to meet the organisations active in the field of environment and to hear more about their projects and initiatives[…..]
On 20 August 2016, the Turkish parliament passed Law No. 6745 which is a “bag law” covering many issues related to investments. Article 80 of the law has raised serious concern among the public and is specifically protested by many environmentalists. This article will potentially lead to exemptions from licences, permissions and appropriations to projects[…..]
On 19 September 2016, Turkey’s largest environmental trial, which has 751 real and legal entities including TEMA Foundation as complainants and 61 lawyers representing them, was held in Rize Administrative Court. To give a brief introduction about the lawsuit: the struggle in Artvin started in early 90s when gold was first discovered in the area.[…..]
Green Wave, the radio show produced by the Env.net Team in TEMA Foundation is sponsored by Env.net for the coming two months. September 15th was the 17th broadcast of the series. This week on Green Wave we talked about WWF Turkey’s newly implemented Kaş-Kekova Sustainable Tourism Project. Our guest, Yaprak Arda, WWF Turkey Nature Protection[…..]
Green Wave, the radio show produced by the Env.net Team in TEMA Foundation is sponsored by Env.net for the coming two months. September 22nd was the 18th broadcast of the series. This week on Green Wave we talked about the “Adım Adım Initiative” and TEMA’s own “Fellowship of the Trees” Project. Adım Adım is a[…..]
This week our broadcast was about the newly formed sinkhole in Konya Karapınar and our guests were Assoc. Prof. Fetullah Arık from the Chamber of Geology Engineers’ and Assoc. Prof. Erhan Akça from TEMA’s Science Committee. Prof. Arık stated that although sinkholes are naturally occurring phenomena, the formation of sinkholes in residence areas is[…..]