Public transport is one of the lowest carbon ways to travel. However, it is not always easy to get people to use it, reports Euronews. The Austrian KlimaTicket will be free for one year for all 18-year-olds from 1 July. Such a pass will be available to anyone who has turned 18 from January 1...
15 EU countries published a joint working document calling on the European Commission to prioritize the decarbonisation of heating and cooling processes in order to increase the EU's energy independence and achieve its climate goals, reports Euractiv. Key actions the 15 countries have asked the Commission to take include publishing the long-awaited action plan…
The European Commission wants to tighten the rules for the emergency use of pesticides banned in the EU. That's according to a draft of a new guidance document seen by Euractiv. Under the proposal, member states cannot authorize the use of substances that are expressly banned within the bloc. The Commission's revised guidelines, last updated in 2021, will be discussed…
House Democrats have launched an investigation into a meeting between oil executives and Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago home and club last month, after reports the former president offered to roll back Joe Biden's environmental rules and asked for that $1 billion for his presidential campaign in…
514 project proposals were submitted under the "Development of Innovations in Enterprises" procedure under the "Competitiveness" program. The companies' projects are for a total of over BGN 250 million. Of these, the companies have requested BGN 144 million in grants, the Ministry of Innovation and Growth (MIR) announced. The total budget of grants that companies can receive under…
Public companies in Bulgaria will be able to get an ESG rating completely free of charge from LSEG Data & Analytics. The news of its creation was announced by the executive director of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) and chairman of the Center for Sustainable Finance and Energy, Assoc. Dr. Manyu Moravenov, who opened the second think-tank meeting of the year, part of the GreenTalks initiative, organized by...
The accession of Bulgaria to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is among the main goals of our country's foreign policy. On January 25, 2022, a decision was adopted by the OECD Council to start talks on joining the Organization with Bulgaria and the other candidate countries. The official opening of membership talks was set…
In the context of the war in Ukraine, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania want to speed up the desynchronization of their electricity grids from Russia and Belarus and complete it by February 2025 at the latest, reports Euractiv. Twenty years after the three countries joined the EU, their electricity grids remain synchronized with Russian and Belarusian grids,…
The Minister of Environment and Water, Petar Dimitrov, signed an Agreement with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria for the hosting of the 61st session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is planned to be held in Sofia between July 26 and August 2, the Ministry of the Environment announced...
A group of 11 countries, led by Ireland, made a last-ditch effort to push through the EU's flagship nature restoration policy. The move comes amid concerns that the law could be delayed after the European elections in June, reports Reuters. The law will be among the EU's biggest environmental policies, requiring countries to introduce measures…
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