BELGRADE - Head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission to Serbia and Montenegro Hans Ola Urstad (see the photo), said that there was a tremendously high level of pollution in Serbia and that something had to be done urgently to protect this beautiful country and make it more appealing for the development of tourism. “I have been living in Serbia for more than five years and have visited almost every place in the country. Environmental problems are, unfortunately, acute in several fields. The...
BELGRADE - Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Serbia and Montenegro has organized a roundtable ‘Reporting on the environment’ on the 17th and 18th of June in Belgrade. It was the final activity of one-year program of the same name for the journalists of printed and electronic media from Serbia and former Yugoslav republics. The roundtable was opened by the Chief of the OSCE Mission in Belgrade, Hans Ola Urstad. The moderators were Paul Iredale, longtime journalist of Reuters, now trainer at Reu...
CAMBRIDGE, MA - Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are trying to unleash the promise of an old idea by converting light into electricity more efficiently than ever before.
The research is applying new materials, new technologies and new ideas to radically improve an old concept -- thermophotovoltaic (TPV) conversion of light into electricity. Rather than using the engine to turn a generator or alternator in a car, for example, the new TPV system would burn a little fuel to create super-bright light. Effic...
COPENHAGEN - The former Director General of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), Achim Steiner, said that the organization adopted a "very purposeful decision" to open its programming regional office for the Southeast Europe in Belgrade, with the goal to provide assistance through advise, but also to help the approximation of national environmental protection policies with EU legislation, under the process of European integrations.
"The long-term contemplation of environmental protection has suffered over the past seve...
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