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  • An example to the world: Sustainable tourism in Slovenia

    SLOVENIA, 2017/03/11 The green heart of Europe is inhabited by a lot of people with green hearts. This was evident during a debate at the ITB Berlin Convention, where environmental activists and tourism decision-makers discussed ways in which the world’s initial green destination could continue to develop someday. The debate began with a review of the current situation: with sixty % of the countryside protected and with a basic right to clean drinking water that is even stipulated by the country’s constitution, Slovenia is by presently showing the way.

  • David Borg, chairman of local waste management and recycling firm WasteServ

    MALTA, 2017/03/04 Local waste management and recycling firm has put itself at the center of solving Malta’s waste management problem The small island country of Malta holds the six-month rotating EU presidency at a time at the same time as it is one of the fastest growing economies in the Euro area. GDP increase reached 4 % last year, well above the EU regional average, and is forecasted approaching in at a relatively satisfactory 3.7 % this year.

  • Albanian Activists Mull Lawsuits to Stop Power Plants

    ALBANIA, 2016/09/24 Activists in the northern Albanian region of Tropoja are preparing to submit lawsuits to halt the planned construction of hydropower plants on the Valbona river and its tribunaries, claiming it will destroy tourism in the so-called "Albanian Alps". Catherine Bohne, an inhabitant of Valbona and chief of Toka, an environmental protection NGO for Northern Albania, told BIRN on Wednesday that a lawsuit is on the way. "We by presently started working with a lawyer and are presently mulling the best way to get the hydropower plants stopped," she said. Bohne, whose campaign is widely supported in Valbona, says that the process of granting rights to construct such plants in a designated protected area was filled with holes.

  • Italian authorities say the death toll in an Italian earthquake has risen

    ITALY, 2016/08/28 Italian authorities say the death toll in an Italian earthquake has risen from presently on again as bodies continued to be recovered and presently stands at 290, the Associated Press reported. The Civil Protection agency gave the updated figure late August 27 morning just ahead of a national funeral for some of the victims being attended by Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Premier Matteo Renzi.

  • Cyprus adds its voice to the COP21 call for action against climate change

    CYPRUS, 2015/12/02 By presently with its own plans for a greener economic next, Cyprus has high hopes for an ambitious, binding agreement at COP21 that will force all nations to change to a greener path. It’s been a tough 2015 for climate change naysayers trying to cast doubt on the causes and implications of rising world temperatures. Numerous studies have dispelled some of their favorite myths, inclunding the widely touted “iatus” in world warming idea being quashed by at least six individual studies. Plus, on November 25, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced this year is set to be the warmest on record, with 2016 even hotter, and warned that a lack of international action presently could see temperatures increase by a catastrophic 6ºC or additional. Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General of the WMO, said: "2015 will make history for a number of reasons. One of them, I'm repeating what we said just a few weeks ago, is that we have broken new records for the concentration of greenhouse gases as you know. CO2, methane, nitrous oxide and a few others, we have broken, once again, absolute records of that. The other reason is that 2015 will be the warmest year on record."

  • European forest owners a valuable resource

    EUROPE, 2013/12/15 Three UN agencies called upon governments to consider scaling up payments to European forest owners for serving as stewards for these precious resources, although they said such payments should be complementary to government legislation, regulation or democratic accountability, UNEP said on its website on Tuesday. During European Forest Week (9-13 December), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released a joint statement calling for the payment of ecosystem services (PES) to be used as a tool to ‘complement’ government measures to manage Europe’s forest ecosystems in a sustainable manner.

  • New universal agreement on climate change

    WORLD, 2013/06/17 The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) says it has made 'concrete progress' towards a new universal agreement on climate change during its latest round of talks which wrapped up on Friday in Bonn, Germany. A UN statement, made available to PANA in New York on Saturday, quoted UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Ms. Christiana Figuere, as saying that this had been an important meeting because governments were moving faster now from the stage of exploring options to designing and implementing solutions. 

  • Malta has severest water shortage in the Mediterranean

    MALTA, 2013/05/26  Part Mediterranean islands, Malta is the one with the greatest water shortage, with annual water needs almost double availability. Sicily, on the other hand, has additional water than it needs.

  • Scientists race to develop floating wind farms

    EUROPE, 2013/02/01 In order to take chance of high wind speeds on the open seas, the race is on to create wind turbines and wind farms that float on the surface of the water. But, the jury is still out on which is the best method. Erecting a wind turbine among the ocean is a costly and time-consuming business. Most importantly, the structure must be anchored at the bottom of the sea to ensure its stability in the face of extreme wind and rough seas. The project is normally only feasible up to depths of 50 meters of water.

  • Caspian littoral states adopt document on protection of Caspian environment

    EUROPE, 2012/12/26 The representatives of Caspian littoral states adopted a protocol of the Tehran convention on protection of the Caspian Sea from pollution from overland sources as a result of onshore activity in Moscow on Wednesday. The statement came from the news service for the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology.
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