Turkey declared 2012 as the ‘Year of Coal’ and announced that by 2023, all coal reserves in Turkey will be used for electricity production. In November 2013, during the UN Warsaw Climate Change Conference COP 19, this brought Turkey ‘the Fossil of the Day Award’ from participating civil society organizations. CSOs justified the award stating[…..]
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Co-PLAN in cooperation with the Municipality of Tirana and IFC, under the ENV.net project, funded by European Commission organized the Roundtable “On Integrated Management of Solid Waste in the City of Tirana”, aiming the presentation of the feasibility study on integrated waste management in Tirana, and to open a discussion with stakeholders, civil society organizations[…..]
On March 2013, ENV.net staff conducted a survey in Western Balkans and Turkey to assess training needs of environmental CSOs acting in these countries. It emerged the need of improving knowledge and skills on EU funding mechanisms and possible channels for CSOs to monitor the approximation process to EU environmental acquis. For this reason, the[…..]
Building envelopes contribute to both qualitative and quantitative measure of a building’s sustainability while still guaranteeing the required comfort standards. An efficient thermal envelope minimizes the heat loss in the winter and the heat gain in the summer. Most of the solutions can be found combined together and integrated in the facades or cladding elements.[…..]
The first Conference of the Platform for Green Macedonia established with the support of ENV.net project was held on 24th October in Veles. Over 50 participants, representative from the NGO sector, national and local governments discussed the problems and progress of the situation related to 3 of the detected 10 hot spots. The key topics[…..]
Integrated Management of Solid Waste (MMNU) represents one of the most important and serious problems, which currently the country is facing. Although the legal framework for integrated waste management in recent years has improved significantly, clearly anticipating in the legislation ways of processing major waste streams and final treatment alternatives for waste, concrete results in[…..]
Yesterday, October 14th 2014, the Department for Agriculture and Forestry in Ferizaji Municipal in collaboration with the Kosovo Police and inspectorate of Forestry seized seven tractors with 23 cubic meters illegal woods. This action comes after the regional workshop organized from ATRC as part of Env.Net project with the municipalities of Ferizaj region, and after[…..]
Association of Young Ecologists of Niksic implemented the final action of the project “Preserving and increasing the level of protection of water resources in accordance with the standards of sustainable development”, which included the organized visit to the estavelle and a lecture. 35 cyclists took participation in this action, from which the youngest participant was 4[…..]
On 10 October, 2014, Advocacy Training and Resource Center (ATRC) in collaboration with Eco Vision in Podujeva Municipality, within the regional project Env.Net, organized a regional workshop on the theme “Forest management and measures dealing with the prevention of illegal logging.” Participants in the workshop were representatives from Podujevo Municipality, representatives from Basic Court of[…..]