Sustainability

Turkey?s rebellious Chamber of Turkish Engineers and Architects (TMMOB) is set to open a lawsuit against the Environment Ministry after it hurriedly approved a highly controversial environmental report on Turkey?s first nuclear plant, ending months of legal wrangling a day ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin?s visit to Ankara last month.

BELGRADE - Serbian MPs adopted on Monday the Energy Law by majority vote, which envisages easier investing in the energy domain, ensures greater protection of buyers and adjusts this economic field with the EU regulations.

As long as Turkey remains distant from pluralistic democracy and the rule of law, and as long as it cannot secure an inclusive political atmosphere that is the most essential requirement of co-existence and economic development, all the economic gains it has achieved will be temporary and unsustainable.

BELGRADE - Current time with an increasing economic interdependence among countries and organizations, the shifting balance in the world economy, many technological changes and various security threats, seems to be more challenging than ever, Slovenia's Prime Minister Milo Cerar notes.

The European Commission opened the case because it said that Romania had breached an EU directive on environmental impact assessment when expanding a lignite mine in the Rovinari area in the south of the country.

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The retailers of FMCG (Fast Mover Consumer Goods) in Romania do not market local organic fruit and vegetables, despite the fact that the marketing degree of such produce without organic certification has increased to 55%, according to the survey 'Retailer Scorecard 2014,' issued on Thursday for AGERPRES.

Athens and Thessaloniki were named on Wednesday among 35 cities around the world that will join the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities initiative, a 100-million-dollar scheme to create a network of urban centers that will cooperate to build “their own capacities to navigate the shocks and stresses of an increasingly complex 21st century.”

Cengiz Construction is facing its second setback in a week after its project to build a coal plant on the shore of the Marmara Sea was suspended by a local administrative court, on the grounds that the assessment regarding the environmental impact of the facility was inadequate.

"Climate Change and Green Economy" conference

BELGRADE -- Vuk Jeremić opened on Thursday in Belgrade the international conference dubbed "Climate Change and the Green Economy".

BELGRADE - The model of green economy can ensure Serbia's economic growth and step up competitiveness, create jobs, reduce poverty and ensure sustainable use of natural resources, Serbian Minister of Agriculture Snezana Bogosavljevic-Boskovic stated on Thursday.