BELGRADE - Pancevo, on the outskirts of Belgrade, is Europe’s most polluted town.
Belgrade itself, where traffic is the main pollutant, is in a very bad condition, as is the town of Bor, home to a copper mine.
Experts at an environmental safety and protection conference have warned that other places most affected are those in the vicinity of power stations with ash filters, and metal and chemical factories.
The air, land and water in Serbia are full of ammonia, iron, manganese, methane, carbons and carb...
BELGRADE - The Serbian Ministry of Environmental Protection stated that on behalf of Serbia, Minister Sasa Dragin took over the chairmanship over the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) from his Romanian colleague Attila Korodi.
Dragin will be ICPDR president and activity leader this year, according to a statement.
As someone who is responsible for environmental protection in Serbia, I know well how difficult it is, and also necessary to harmonise the needs with sustainabl...
BELGRADE - Bozidar Djelic said last night that a strategy for sustainable development would be drawn up by late February.
"The government is preparing a strategy that will make it possible to balance the economic, social and environmental goals of development", the deputy prime minister said.
In a public debate on the document at Belgrade University’s Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, Đelic said that the strategy rested on three pillars - the environment, the economy and social policy.
BELGRADE - The Society for protection of wild birds filed to Special Prosecution criminal charges against former officials of the Republican administration for protection of the environment and Veterinarian Administration for suspicion that they were issuing permits for export of several hundreds of protected birds of prey.
President of the Society Aleksandra Tadic told ‘Blic’ yesterday that hundreds of falcons and eagles were exported illegally.
The price of these birds as well as of the hybrids that comes to...
PANCEVO - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic attended the opening of a public debate in Pancevo, as part of the campaign themed “Sustainable Progress“, and stated that the Serbian sustainable development strategy reflects a balanced relation of ecology and economy, as well as of economic and social progress.
In the course of the debate, in which Minister of Environmental Protection Sasa Dragin, State Secretary of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy Ljiljana Lucic and Deputy Prime Minister’s advisor fo...
BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister’s advisor for sustainable development Srdja Popovic stated today that waste water in Belgrade flows into the Sava and Danube because not a single filter has been set up in the city.
At the presentation of the sustainable development strategy held at the Serbian government, Popovic said that according to a survey conducted by the Strategic Marketing agency, Serbian citizens are not sufficiently informed on pollution-related issues and a third of them feels threatened by the un...
BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic said today that the German government is ready to turn Serbia's debt of €17 million into assistance for projects in the field of environmental protection and sustainable growth.
Djelic told the press after a meeting with German Ambassador to Serbia Wolfram Maas that that is a part of Serbia's debt to the Paris Club of Creditors and that Germany is the only country that has decided so far to renounce that debt and turn it into concrete assistance to Serbia.
BELGRADE - Climate change has had a negative effect on the economy, according to the Serbian Chamber of Commerce.
At an international conference on climate change in south-east Europe today, Franz Prettenthaler, from the Austrian research institute Joanneum, said that global production had fallen by 1.33 percent, following a doubling of carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere.
He said that cooperation between countries in the region was necessary in order to limit the damaging effects of climate cha...
BELGRADE - The Serbian Ministry of Environmental Protection stated that Serbian citizens are most troubled by unemployment, living standards and social problems, whereas for the first time they mention ecological and environmental problems according to a survey conducted by International Republican Institute (IRI) and Strategic Marketing.
According to research, when voting in elections, 2% of Belgraders and 1% of Novi Sad residents would vote for the party that cares most about environmental protection.
One...
BELGRADE - Serbia has 2,000 to 2,300 sunny hours per year, enough to apply solar collector technology.
And while other countries offer incentives for introduction of solar energy equipment, in Serbia a solar collector can only be bought with all the relevant taxes incorporated in the price.
Despite this, some households have opted for this environmentally friendly source of energy, slashing their electricity bills by 60 percent.
On of them, Ljubisa Stankovic from Pozarevac, currently residing in Aus...
BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Environmental Protection Sasa Dragin and his Slovenian colleague Janez Podobnik signed a memorandum on environmental cooperation between the two countries.
Dragin told the journalists after the signing that Serbia wants to learn from those who are the best and noted that the sound Slovenian experience will be used to build a fast and successful environmental protection according to European standards.
On the occasion of the completion of the sixth ministerial conference "Enviro...
BELGRADE - The international conference on environment for Europe drew to a close in Belgrade today.
It was concluded that all countries should step up work on achieving progress in the area of environmental protection, through common projects, and through the implementation of international conventions and agreements relating to this area, Environment Minister Sasa Dragin said on Friday.
Speaking at the closing news conference, the minister expressed satisfaction that all the conference participants had supp...
BELGRADE - The five ministers responsible for water management in Ukraine, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary and Serbia announced their support for actions protecting the Tisza River Basin from pollution, floods and drought. The announcement was made at a 14:00 press conference today during the second day of the Sixth ‘Environment for Europe Conference’ in Belgrade, Serbia.
The ministers specifically supported the main recommendations of a report launched at the press conference entitled Tisza River Basin Analysis 2007 --...
BELGRADE - Balkan countries must pay as much attention to environmental protection as they do on economic development if they want to join the European Union, a United Nations report said on Wednesday.
Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Albania spent the 1990s in war or economic turmoil, and are rushing to catch up with ex-communist neighbours that are now EU members.
More concerned with privatisations and restructuring big communist-era companies, they now risk coming up short of EU standar...
BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic presented Serbia’s sustainable development strategy at the sixth ministerial conference “Environment for Europe” and announced its adoption in February 2008 and implemented immediately after that.
Djelic said that the work on drafting the national sustainable development strategy took two years and that the whole job should be finished by November, which is a deadline for all those who are interested in submitting comments and proposals.
The strategy fo...
BELGRADE - A two-day ministerial conference named “Environment for Europe” opened in Belgrade today.
Prior to the event, which is taking place in Belgrade’s Sava Center, ministers attending the conference went for a symbolic bicycle ride outside the Sava Center building, with Environment Minister Saša Dragin, Deputy Prime Minister Božidar Đelić and Agriculture Minister Slobodan Milosavljević leading the way.
President Boris Tadić opened the event saying that the conference was one of the most important event...
VIENNA - The Sixth Ministerial Conference "Environment for Europe" in Belgrade will bring together environment ministers and high level government officials from the region as well as representatives of international and non-governmental organizations to discuss sustainable development issues and improving environmental protection in Europe.
Some 3,000 participants are expected to attend this key conference, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Mission to Serbia, as part of its activit...
BELGRADE - Serbian Assistant Minister of Environmental Protection Milan Stegic said today that decisions reached at the sixth ministerial conference "Environment for Europe", which will be held from October 10 to 12 in Belgrade, should lead to increased funding for environmental protection in participant countries.
Stegic told a press conference that inadequate funding for environmental protection is one of the main reasons for unsatisfactory results in this area. He added that in the Serbian budget only 0.1% of the ...
BOR - Dragan Djilas, Serbian Minister without Portfolio in charge of implementing the National Investment Plan announced today that works on the clear-up of flotation-caused barren land Veliki Krivelj in the Mining and Metallurgical Basin (RTB) Bor in Eastern Serbia will commence on October 20.
During his visit to the Bor municipality, Djilas said that due to its extremely poor condition and particularly the damaged collector, this barren land is a huge potential polluter of the Bor and Zajecar regions, adding that t...
SOMBOR - Deputy Prime Minister Božidar Đelić launched a public debate on drafting Serbia’s Sustainable Development Strategy.
Đelić was in Sombor yesterday to mark the beginning of a campaign named “Sustainable Way Forward”, organized with assistance from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.
The debate will be carried out in sixteen towns in Serbia in October and November, as Đelić’s office looks to introduce...
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