| © Government of SwedenDo we remember the catastrophic consequences of the Hurricane Katrina throughout the United States of America in 2005? Or maybe the tornado outbreak in mid-May 2013, which produced several damaging tornadoes in a row in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Alabama. All of these devastating e ...
| © КРИБWith a significant delay, the European Commission finally approved Bulgaria's National Carbon Allowances Allocation Plan for the period 2008-2012. The document has been approved by the government in the end of 2009. Are the Bulgarian companies ready to take part in the trade of carbon emissions ...
| © euinsideFive myths, compromising global efforts for a transition to low-carbon economy, aimed at fighting climate change, were presented in an article for the Washington Post by Robert Bryce. The author is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and his fourth book, "Power Hungry: The Myths of 'Green ...
| © Council of the European UnionThis is what EU environment ministers have agreed upon at their regular meeting in Brussels on Monday. Then, for the first time, they discussed the new strategy of the European Commission for future actions after Copenhagen. Most ministers insisted though, that in order the EU to be able to comm ...
| © Audiovisual Service of the European UnionThe European Union is not giving up assuming a leading role in achieving a legally binding global agreement on climate change, in spite of its failure to prove as such during the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen in December. The European Commission kept its promise and initiated its ac ...
The state of California is preparing to introduce the first statewide system of monitoring devices to detect global-warming emissions, installing them on towers throughout the state, the New York Times reports. The network will initially focus on pinpointing the sources and concentrations of met ...
| © nullOut of 163 countries, Iceland ranks first in addressing pollution control and natural resource management challenges. Among the first are also Switzerland, Costa Rica, Sweden and Norway. At the bottom of the chart are some of the poorest nations in the world like Togo, Angola, Mauritania, the Ce ...
| © nullGermany has announced a reduction of subsidies for solar energy because of the fast growth of the photo-voltaic market. A week earlier France did the same. The German environment minister Norbert Röttgen said that the government was proposing to cut feed-in tariffs for new roof-mounted solar pow ...
| © Audiovisual ServiceIceland fully joined the EU's Climate and Energy package, in spite of not being a member of the Union yet. This is what came up of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council in Brussels. Iceland which because of the crisis filed an application for EU membership, has requested to join the package, pro ...
| © euinsideMore than a month ago a group of activists for reaching a legally binding climate change agreement in the Danish capital at the UN conference that starts today in Copenhagen, played with the name of the city. They have created a website called Hopenhagen, thus illustrating their hopes that a se ...
| © nullOnly 11 days before the beginning of the climate conference in Copenhagen and a day after president Obama announced that he would participate, China presented its plans for greenhouse gases reduction. According to the formulation, quote by the BBC, Beijing would aim to reduce its "carbon intensi ...
| © Swedish PresidencyAlthough the US climate change bill is still not approved Washington will go to Copenhagen with a concrete proposal. After yesterday it was announced that president Obama will participate in the climate conference in Copenhagen, the White House specified that Barack Obama will announce an initia ...
| © The White HouseThe American president Barack Obama will go to Copenhagen for the global climate conference next month, despite the conference's failure to secure a binding worldwide treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, an administration official was quoted by the Washington post as saying. The news is go ...
| © Swedish PresidencyIf the United States do not join the global efforts of the industrialized countries for clear and measurable targets to reduce carbon emissions, this would trigger the domino effect and will make a lot of countries fall away, the Swedish Presidency of the EU said in a statement after the Asia-Pa ...
| © ASEANAlthough there were fears that the climate change summit in Copenhagen is threatened by a failure, now only 20 days before its beginning the failure is almost certain. This became clear after the Asia-Pacific summit in Singapore which ended on Sunday. The American president Barack Obama conceded ...
| © ConsiliumThe price of adaptation, mitigation and investment in clean technology for the developing countries will be something like 100 bn euro per year until 2020. The is the amount of money, calculated by the European Commission and endorsed by the EU leaders at their European Council on Thursday and F ...
| © British embassy in BulgariaLast week Britain has announced its serious concern of the lack of progress in the international climate change negotiations that will come up with a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. The main concern of Britain comes from the fact that it is an island country and would suffer severely by the mel ...
| © euinsideThe Bulgarian Ministry of environment and waters has already sent the reworked National Plan for Carbon Emissions Trade (National Allocation Plan)) for coordination among other ministries and when this procedure is over, the plan will be sent to the Council of Ministers for approval. This plan w ...
| © the UK Meteorological OfficeDo you know what will happen if the temperature of Earth increases with 4 degrees Celsius? The question is as difficult as many different theories there are. Yesterday the UK presented a climate change map, prepared by the UK Meteorological Office with the cooperation of 27 scientists. According ...
| © ConsiliumThis is written in the conclusions of the Environment Council of the EU, which ended on Wednesday in Luxembourg. The conclusions are based on the latest inventory for 2007. The inventories are made for a period of 2 years behind. Nevertheless, the European ministers of the environment insist in ...
| © Adelina Marini | www.euinside.euAccording to a report by the National Academy of Science of the US, published on Monday and quoted by the New York Times, nearly 20,000 die annually from complications, caused by air pollution. The most frequent reasons for premature death are small soot particles, which cause lung damage, nitro ...
| © nullAccording to an inventory data from 2007, Bulgaria has somewhere around 50 mn tonnes of carbon dioxide surpluses, measured according to the targets, set for Bulgaria in the Kyoto Protocol. The target is Bulgaria to reduce its emissions with 8% with 1988 used as a basis which means some 128 tonne ...
| © euinsideThe wind park "St. Nicola" near the Bulgarian Black Sea town of Kavarna is now officially plugged in the national electricity system of Bulgaria. The Bulgarian prime minister Boyko Borisov attended the official ceremony on the 6th of October. He said that with this wind park Bulgaria will now be ...
| © euinsideBulgaria generally supports a common European position in the negotiations for a new climate change deal which is expected to be signed in Copenhagen in the beginning of December. The negotiations are very intense and that is why the EU is holding on the 17th of September an extraordinary Europe ...
For the first time since for more than 6 months the new deal on climate change is being discussed, Bulgaria officially announced that it is preparing for the agreement. This will happen today during the session of the European Affairs Council, which under the auspices of the government. It is ex ...
| © InternetThe position of Bulgaria about the new global climate agreement which is supposed to replace the Kyoto protocol, will be part of the common European position. This is what Mr. Kalin Iliev, an expert at the Ministry of Environment and Waters explained to euinside. The Kyoto protocol expires in 20 ...
| © InternetThe discussions about preventing climate change sometimes can be classified as real science fiction because of their inevitability and also, because of the certainty that politicians will not manage to agree reasonable reduction of carbon emissions which, on their part, will lead to restraining ...
For a third time within a month the European Commission representation in Bulgaria is organising a campaign, called "Climate", dedicated to climate change and environment and organised in partnership with the federation "Green Balkans" and the Bulgarian network of European information centres Eu ...
| © InternetNigel Purvis, a senior Transatlantic Fellow at The German Marshall Fund of the United States is trying to find the answer to this question in his 9th consecutive blueprint. In it he claims that the US and Europe are finally finding common ground for action on climate change. Unlike past years, t ...
| © InternetThe US wind energy industry installed 1,210MW of new power generating capacity in the second quarter of this year, bringing the total added this year to just over 4,000 MW, an increase from the 2,900 MW added in the first six months of 2008, the American Wind Energy Association said in its secon ...
| © InternetSteel and metal producers are the biggest polluters in Europe, the first of its kind research shows which also includes a map of EU polluters. Unfortunately the map does not cover Bulgaria and Malta. Bulgaria is not included probably because its National Action Plan for the period 2008-2012 is s ...
The European market of solar thermal systems (STS) is developing significantly for the last 4 years and, according to a report of a private company, the incomes from STS sales will double because of the long-term perspectives and the introduction of new participants. According to the report, the ...
Less than 6 months before the big UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen where it is expected an entirely new agreement for decrease of greenhouse gas emissions to be concluded, several big states started introducing radically new national legislation, directed toward support of greenhous ...
| © Swedish PresidencyThis is the proposal of Nobuo Tanaka, executive director of the International Energy Agency who took part in the meeting of EU environment and energy ministers in the Swedish town of Are. At this meeting the European Commission announced that an entirely new energy efficiency plan will be prese ...
| © DesertecContrary to the expectations, young people, aged between 15 and 24 years are less interested in climate change although they are going to be the main victims. This is the result of an opinion poll the European Commission ordered and which led to organising a campaign with the help of the MTV tha ...
| © InternetThe magnificent Ms. Candidate for vice president of John McCain in the fierce battle for the White House last year that continued for 2 years, managed only to increase the sales of the design of her eye-glasses. No one could remember her with anything else - either because media in the US focuse ...
| © G8 photos/ANSAThe question is how the battle for the real aversion of climate change will finish? The problem is that although difficult, a compromise has been reached at the G8 summit in L'Acquila. A compromise that was far from its initial goal - the leaders of the most developed industrialized countries of ...
| © G8Since most industrialized countries as well as some developing countries announced their own plans for fight against climate change, today it appeared that the issue is the main obstacle in their summit in L'Aqcuila, Italy. The main dispute is that the developed nations insist the greenhouse gas ...
| © ConsiliumThe US has demonstrated for a consecutive time since Barack Obama became president, its ability to change revolutionary its policies. The subsequent revolution has started with the House of Representatives approval of a climate bill which would establish national limits on greenhouse gases, crea ...
