A Commission proposal for a pesticide ban on areas set aside for nature protection was discussed at a meeting of EU agriculture ministers in Brussels on Monday 18 July, in the presence of Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan. The proposal for Ecological Focus Areas (EFAs) is just one of 15 measures the Commission will put forward[…..]
Together with its Dutch partner Both ENDS, TEMA Foundation is working on a project entitled “Connecting Sustainable Agricultural Networks in EU and Turkey ”, since February, 2016, which funded by EU and Republic of Turkey. The main objectives are establishment of links and cooperation between civil society in Turkey and the EU through a common platform[…..]
Registrations are now open for the EEB’s Annual Conference that will be organized together with EEB Austrian member Umweltdachverband in Vienna on Monday 26 September 2016. The EEB conference will be one of the first opportunities for those concerned about the environment across Europe to come together and take stock of the developments after the UK[…..]
The Turkish Env.net partner TEMA Foundation was involved in an examination for the planned nuclear power plant in Mersin Akkuyu, with many other environmental organizations and professional chambers on July 11, 2016. The field trip included all the complainant parties (13 national and local organizations and 80 citizens) of the case filed to cancel the[…..]
On July 20, 2016 – only seven months after the Paris Agreement, the European Commission published its proposal for the Effort Sharing Regulation and the rules for accounting the land use, land use change and forestry sector (LULUCF) up to 2030. This proposal is massively important. However instead of living up to the ambition of Paris,[…..]
NGO Green Home as member of ENV.net in cooperation with NGO Sunce from Croatia, Environment Protection Agency of Montenegro and Public Institution for the Management of Protected Natural Values in the Dubrovnik-Neretva County in Croatia organized five-day training (18 – 22 July) for work in a Geographic Information System (GIS) designed for divers and volunteers who deal with the mapping of species and habitats in[…..]
Green Wave, the radio show produced by the Env.netTeam in TEMA Foundation is now sponsored by Env.net for the coming six months. July, 21st was the 9th broadcast of the series. This week o ur guest for Green Wave was Prof. Kayıhan Pala from “No to DOSAB Power Plant” Platform and Uludağ University Medical School[…..]
Milieukontakt, which is the organization being awarded the sub-grant for the development of the project “Coordinated Management of Coastal Waters in Vlora Region”, has started to work with local and regional actors related to planning issues. During these two months they have several meetings with representatives of Vlora Region, the Regional Agency of Protected Areas, and[…..]
Green Wave, the radio show produced by the Env.net Team in TEMA Foundation is now sponsored by Env.net for the coming six months. July, 14th was the 8th broadcast of the series. This week our guest for Green Wave was Prof. Ali Osman Karababa from Ege University. The topic for this week’s broadcast was the[…..]
Green Wave, the radio show produced by the Env.net team in TEMA Foundation is now sponsored by Env.net for the coming six months. July, 7 was the 7th broadcast of the series. This week our guest for Green Wave was Batur Avgan on the phone, from the Association for Preservation of Natural Resources and Biological[…..]