Tag: environment

Are there differences in the assessments of Serbia's progress when it comes to harmonizing legislation with the EU acquis related to Chapter 27, in the Coalition 27 Report and the Report of the European Commission? How far has Serbia really come in the field of environmental protection? All things considered, what is the line between limited progress and regression

Are we getting further away or getting closer to the EU? Are we taking a step forward, but two steps back when it comes to Chapter 27 - the area of environmental protection and climate change? Our country's progress in Chapter 27 was discussed at the presentation of the Shadow Report for Chapter 27: One step forward, two steps back, organized by the Coalition 27.

Looking into the beginning of the heating season and months in which air pollution is increased, we are organizing a panel discussion on air quality in Serbia and civil society initiatives in advocating for the solution to this problem.

Belgrade Open School is organizing an online regional conference "Cooperation to sustainable development at the local level - Bor, Zajecar and Knjazevac", December 16th at 11:00 AM.

The Coalition 27 will hold a press conference at the Media Center on 14 December to mark the opening of Cluster 4, which negotiating Chapter 27 – environment and climate change is a part of.

Belgrade Open School has prepared an online lecture on Sustainable Development Goals, namely those concerning the protection of the environment in which we live. These are the goals that tell us how to stop the galloping consequences of climate change, how to keep our seas and oceans blue, and how to stop taking from nature more than we can give back.

The proposal to amend the Law on Integrated Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution, which has been sent to the National Assembly without public discussion, shows that the Republic of Serbia and the competent ministry of environmental protection do not have the capacity to implement the regulations. The deadline for issuing integrated permits to major polluters has been pushed back, this time until the end of 2024. The re-immanting of the deadline for issuing integrated permits is a cl

In Serbia, the air is officially excessively polluted in 15 cities and agglomerations. This is the assessment of air quality for 2020, which we received from the Environmental Protection Agency in September 2021. For the assessment of the air in the previous year, 2021, we will wait for September this year. What kind of air we have been breathing so far this year, we will officially find out, you guessed it, only in the fall of 2023.

Belgrade Open School, together with the local partner organization - Association of Young Researchers Bor, in the previous period worked on the Contribution to the Development Plan of the City of Bor. This document is a proposal for parts of the Development Plan of the City of Bor in the field of environmental protection.

Belgrade Open School with pleasure announce list of selected project proposals for support in the Civil Society Support Program for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development of local communities – Green PowerUp.

Air pollution is among the causes of increased infertility and growing sterility rates in women and men across the Western Balkans. It particularly affects women living in polluted areas, since poor air quality may cause a reduced number of healthy egg cells and thus decrease fertility rates, also lowering in vitro fertilization success rates. Long-term exposure to polluted air in the Western Balkans can decrease female fertility by more than 10 percent; periods of high pollution levels reduce c

After a two-year standstill, European integration has moved from a dead end. At the Intergovernmental Conference in Brussels on December 14, Serbia opened Cluster 4, which refers to the Green Agenda and Sustainable Connectivity.

On December 16, the Belgrade Open School, with the support of partners within the Platform "SDGs for All", organized a Regional Conference "Cooperation to Sustainable Development at the Local Level - Bor, Zajecar and Knjazevac". The aim of the conference was to promote regional cooperation in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and regional development at the local level.

In order to raise awareness of the importance of this global problem, every year in November World Climate Change Day is celebrated. This year's celebration of this day is especially important, because the European Union's service for monitoring climate change, Copernicus, recently announced that the average temperatures last summer in Europe were the highest ever measured. Also, the 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26) was held in Glasgow, at which the countries of

A total of 400 tree trees were planted in several cities in the region as part of this year’s "Trees of Friendship" action, which was jointly implemented by European Fund for the Balkans (EFB) and its local partners.