Tag: industry

EU: Citizens Can Now Seek Compensation from Polluters

The European Union has adopted an amended directive on industrial and livestock emissions, 2024/1785 (IED 2.0), granting citizens greater rights than the directive adopted in 2010. Now, the European Commission announced they...

Environmental Labelling and Eco-Labels

The fact remains that the stability of our planet has been irreversibly damaged and that human civilization has contributed to this state with its activities, especially in terms of energy and resource...

Is it Possible to Combine the Chemical Industry and Circular Economy?

The chemical industry is an important segment of the global economy because it employs more than 15 million people worldwide and has global annual revenues of 5.7 trillion dollars, according to data...

Can Heavy Industry Rely on Solar Energy?

The decarbonization of heavy industry is one of the biggest challenges in fighting climate change because this sector consumes huge amounts of energy. For this reason, the use of fossil fuels is...

EU: NET ZERO INDUSTRY ACT COULD THREATEN THE EUROPEAN WIND INDUSTRY

Wind energy is important for the European Union Member States, considering that 19 percent of the energy consumed in the EU comes from this renewable source. Although almost all European wind turbines...

Costs of industrial pollution from largest facilities decline in Europe but remain at two per cent of EU GDP

The 2024 update of the EEA briefing ‘The costs to health and the environment from industrial air pollution in Europe’ presents the latest assessment of the trends in externalities of industrial air...

EU economy emissions in 2022: down 22 percent since 2008

In 2022, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by economic activities of EU resident units stood at 3.6 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalents (CO2-eq), indicating a 22 percent decrease compared with 2008. The activities with the highest GHG emissions in 2022...

It’s time for governments and industry to act on energy efficiency

Amid a global energy crisis, policy makers, industry executives and consumers are all talking about how to bring down the cost of energy and reinforce security of supply. Often that conversation focuses...

NEW LIFE FOR OLD THERMAL POWER PLANTS WITH CEEFOR

Although the Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS) still relies on coal, for the most part, the idea to shut down certain thermal power plants (TPP) and build solar ones instead is...

EU Lawmakers Vote to Include Maize, Meat Imports in Anti-Deforestation Rules

The European Parliament has voted to extend the agricultural goods covered by the bloc’s new law against imports linked to deforestation to include maize, poultry and pig meat in a move hailed...

As Fuel Prices Rise, Companies Look to Energy Efficient Solutions

With fossil fuel prices reaching record highs, companies around the world are focusing on energy efficiency to save money and reduce the emissions driving the climate crisis. Research shows that a safe future...

Fuel Price, Excise, Strategic Reserves of Oil and Petroleum Products – What Do We Know About It?

Fuel prices plummeted again in February, causing concern in the local market, especially after additional forecasts that the cost of crude oil will continue to rise. Although it is impossible to stay...

Record Heat Sends Sea Ice Into Retreat, Worrying Scientists

The recent collapse of a 1,100km2 ice shelf in Antarctica came at a time of record high temperatures and is a symptom of a planet in a climate crisis, experts say.   The...

Energy and Ecology Together to Strengthen Nature

International Energy Fair is the largest and most respectable annual regional get together of companies, corporations, entrepreneurships, institutions and professionals in the sectors of electricity, coal, oil and gas, renewable energy sources,...

With the Power of Nature to a Better Life

16 th International Energy Fair, which is being held at the Belgrade Fair from the 23 rd to the 25 th of November, comes at a time of deep and global energy...

Western Balkan municipalities kick off the development of Local Air Quality Plans

After launching the Clean Air Regions Initiative (CARI) at the Just Transition Forum on 30 June 2021, representatives of the participating municipalities have come together for the first two-day workshop to kick...

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