Category: Environmental Protection

Kosovo is at an early stage of preparation on environment and climate change. Progress Limited was achieved during the reporting period, notably on environmental reporting and air quality monitoring. In order to be aligned with the Green Agenda for the Western Balkans goals, Kosovo needs to increa se its political commitment to address environmental degradation… Continue reading EU Kosovo report 2021, findings on environment and climate change

Pollution from coal-fired power plants in Kosovo increased instead of decreasing during 2020, according to a report published today by the CEE Bankwatch Network and the Center for Energy and Clean Air Research (CREA), in cooperation with the Balkan Green Foundation. Unlike other countries in the region, where sulfur dioxide is the biggest problem, in… Continue reading High pollution from coal power plants in Kosovo

Biodiversity makes the earth habitable. Biodiverse ecosystems provide nature-based solutions that buffer us from natural disasters such as floods and storms, filter our water and regenerate our soils. The clearance of over 35% of the world’s mangroves for human activities has increasingly put people and their homes at risk from floods and sea-level rise. If… Continue reading Biodiversity and its impact on environment

Number of Mandatory Fines of the Administrative Instruction, no. 06/2018 imposed for the five-month period (March, April, May, June and July 2021) for environmental polluters is a total of 377. In addition to Mandatory Fines, some of the municipalities have sent applications to the Court, Verbal Proceedings and Request for Court within environmental issues, as… Continue reading 377 mandatory fines were imposed on environmental polluters during the months of March – July 2021

While the world’s leading scientists on climate change published a report full of warnings this week, they continued to insist that the world still has a chance to prevent the worst consequences of climate change. “It is still possible to prevent most of the terrible impacts, but it really requires an unprecedented transformation,” said Ko… Continue reading Computer scenarios show that climate change can be stopped

Over the past two decades, a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that deforestation, by triggering a complex cascade of events, creates the conditions for a range of deadly pathogens—such as Nipah and Lassa viruses, and the parasites that cause malaria and Lyme disease—to spread to people. Forests use more water than shorter types of… Continue reading Consequences of deforestation and the need for reforestation

Communtiy Development Fund (CDF), through its HumanRightivism has supported local organisation Sustainability Leadership Kosova (SLK) in organisation of the event #MoseMerrMalin – the public event which marks the beginning of our movements for the protection and regeneration of Kosovo’s forests. Individuals, businesses, and the government, let’s all unite! United we can protect the remaining forests,… Continue reading Support in the protection and regeneration of Kosovo forests

Community Development Fund through the project HumanRightivism today has supported the ‘Alpine Club’ in the implementation of training on environmental protection. Awareness was discussed during the lecture, and actions to be taken to protect the environment. Community Development Fund – CDF Embassy of Sweden in Pristina HumanRightivism

The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti has joined the campaign “Say no to plastic bags” and has received from the association “HANDIKOS” reusable strike worked by people with disabilities. In “Skënderbeu” square in Prishtina, where people with disabilities are standing to promote the campaign, Kurti said that there is a need for institutional responsibility… Continue reading Kurti: A legislative package should be made for the protection of the environment