Sustainability

The European Commission may open an infringement procedure against Bulgaria due to the lack of oversight of small hydropower plants, according to WWF-Bulgaria.

Locals of Dilovas?, an industrial zone close to Istanbul, have halted their three-day protest against the bad smell emanating from a waste facility, after local officials said the facility will be closed as of 2016.

The Turkish economy is grown upon state contributions, but this is not sustainable, MIT economist Daron Acemo?lu has said in an interview with Bloomberg HT.  

Turkey made a series of structural reforms between 2001 and 2007, but this trend has seriously reversed since then and there has been an increase in corruption, Acemo?lu said.

10 000 liters of diesel fuel have been withdrawn from the market following inspections by a regional unit of Bulgaria's State Agency for Metrological and Technical Surveillance at filling stations on the territory of the Silistra municipality.

The inspections were conducted in the period June 22-25, according to a media statement of the Agency.

Global Impact Turkey Chairman Y?lmaz Argüden has addressed the importance of trust in maintaining good governance and sustainable development in his speech at the United Nations headquarters on June 25. 

Bulgaria's National Audit Office has cautioned in a report that the country is falling to meet biofuel production and use targets.

The US-based think tank IREX on June 24 presented in Belgrade its annual study on the media situation in 80 countries, stating that Serbia had recorded a downgrade in almost every measured category.

Investments in biogas are not profitable in Romania at a 4 million euro cost per MW installed, Deputy Rodin Traicu, member of the committee on industries and services, said on Thursday.

Deputy Rodin Traicu, member of the Committee on industries and services

The Cadmus Group announced that it has entered into an exclusive strategic partnership with Özgül Holding for Turkey and neighboring countries in a written statement on June 9. 

A few days after the government put to public debate its plan to overhaul the country?s waste management, with a greater focus on recycling and a bigger onus on local government, authorities in Patra, in the Peloponnese, have warned that their trash situation risks becoming a ?terrible threat to public health.?