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Bitter conflicts stop Eastern Europe from choosing next year’s COP host

Conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and Armenia and Azerbaijan have stopped the group of Eastern European nations from picking the host of the COP29 climate talks next November. At a group meeting in the German city of Bonn, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan and Armenia each made the case for why they should host the annual climate summit which rotates between the United Nations’ five regions each year. But, according to two sources with knowledge of the meeting, the group could not come to a decision and postponed their choice until a later date. The uncertainty gives the eventual host less time to prepare for the crunch summit. The host for COP30, Brazil, has already been effectively decided. The decision for COP29 must be made by COP28 in November.

Tajikistan: Resource-saving equipment - a gift for Yagnob villagers

On the eve of the Idi Kurbon holiday, Little Earth provided 20 sets of energy-saving equipment to the most vulnerable families in the villages of the Yagnob Valley. 20 women - participants of the project "Sustainable use of natural resources and women's participation in the mountain communities of Yaghnob" and their families (more than 100 people in total) received long-awaited energy-efficient equipment. “Our trip was postponed several times due to problems with the only road that can get to the valley. There was still a lot of snow in the spring, and the road was closed for a long time. Closer to summer, several large avalanches and rockfalls descended here. We again had to wait until the road was cleared using heavy construction equipment. And only at the end of last week we were able to reach our target communities,” says Anton Tymoshenko, executive director of the Little Earth.

The Role of Renewable Energy in Armenia’s Energy Market

Armenia, a landlocked country in the South Caucasus region, has been making significant strides in recent years to diversify its energy sources and reduce its dependence on imported fossil fuels. With its abundant renewable energy resources, Armenia has the potential to become a regional leader in clean energy production and contribute to global efforts to combat climate change. This article explores the role of renewable energy in Armenia’s energy market and the potential for growth in this sector. Armenia’s energy market has traditionally been dominated by natural gas and nuclear power, with the latter accounting for around 30% of the country’s electricity generation. However, the Armenian government has recognized the need to diversify its energy mix and reduce its reliance on imported fuels, particularly in light of geopolitical tensions in the region and the potential for supply disruptions. As a result, the government has set ambitious targets for the development of renewable energy, aiming to increase the share of renewables in the country’s energy mix to 26% by 2025 and 38% by 2030.

Kazakhstan to raise RES share to 15%

On June 30, Prime Minister Alikhan Smailov chaired the 12th session of Kazakhstan-European Union dialogue platform with the participation of top officials of the central executive bodies and foreign diplomats, Kazinform reports. Addressing the participants, Alikhan Smailov said the expansion of partnership with the European Union had been one of the priorities for Kazakhstan. The country is interested in using all existing opportunities for further expansion of trade-economic and investment cooperation. The promising areas here are ‘green’ transition and strengthening the transport interconnectedness. In his words, environmental issues became key ones in Kazakhstan’s sustainable economic development. By 2030, the country plans to raise the share of renewable energy sources in its energy balance from 4.5% to 15%.

Azerbaijan starts installing first major solar power plant

Azerbaijan has begun installation of solar panels at its 230 MW Garadagh plant, the country's first major solar power plant. Developed by United Arab Emirates-based renewable energy company Masdar, the plant is expected to be operating by the end of this year, producing 500 gigawatt hours (GWh) annually. Azerbaijan has been encouraging the development of new renewable energy projects with the aim of meeting 30 percent of the country's power demand from renewables by 2030. Baku believes that by developing its renewable energy potential, it can reduce its dependence on natural gas for power generation, freeing up more gas for export thus maintaining its export revenues as production from the country's oil fields declines.

Kyrgyzstan To Boost Its Renewable Energy Potential With Support From The World Bank And The Green Climate Fund

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved today $67.7 million to help finance the first phase of the Kyrgyz Renewable Energy Development Project that aims to increase renewable energy generation and promote private sector participation in the Kyrgyz Republic. The project has a multi-phase programmatic approach with a financing envelope of $125.7 million over 10 years.The first phase of the project will focus on supporting the Kyrgyz Republic to increase hydropower generation and enable renewable energy integration by strengthening the country’s transmission systems. It includes $12.5 million in grants and loans from the Green Climate Fund mobilized by the Sustainable Renewables Risk Mitigation Initiative (SRMI).

Challenges and prospects of energy efficiency discussed in Uzbekistan

More than 100 stakeholders, energy policymakers, representatives of academia and civil society from the Republic of Uzbekistan, the European Union (EU) and its Member States, as well as international financial institutions gathered at the International Conference “Energy Efficiency in Uzbekistan: prospects and challenges”. The Conference was organised jointly by the Agency for Strategic Reforms (ASR) under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the EU-funded SECCA project as part of the European Union – Uzbekistan Sustainable Energy Days 2023. It aimed at providing an action-oriented forum for decision-makers to share experiences in the implementation of energy efficiency policies in practice.


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Ukraine’s Zelensky Meets With Greta Thunberg to Discuss the War’s Effect on Ecology

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met Thursday with Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg and prominent European figures who are forming a working group to address ecological damage from the 16-month-old Russian invasion. The meeting in the Ukrainian capital came as fighting continued around the country. The governor of the Kherson region, Oleksandr Prokudin, said two people were killed in the region’s capital in a Russian strike that hit residences, a medical facility and a school where residents were lined up to receive humanitarian aid. Another person was killed in a morning strike on the village of Bilzoerka, the regional prosecutor’s office said.

Eastern EU countries veering away from 2030 climate goals, report says

Central and Eastern European countries display low ambitions with their National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs), raising concerns about the region’s ability to meet EU climate goals, campaigners warn. NECPs are an essential building block in the EU’s climate policy architecture because they lay out the specifics of how each country plans to achieve the collective goals agreed upon at a European level. Only three EU countries – Spain, Croatia and Slovenia – have met the EU’s annual 30 June deadline to submit their updated national energy and climate plans, campaigners say.

The world cut down 11 football fields of forests every minute in 2022 – study

Researchers from the University of Maryland found that in 2022, about 11 football fields of forest were cut down every minute, and the total area reached the size of Switzerland, that is, more than 4 million hectares This released an amount of carbon dioxide equivalent to India's annual fossil fuel emissions, the BBC reported. It is noted that the largest amount of forests was destroyed in Brazil. The article said that such a trend does not correspond to the Glasgow Declaration, which was signed by more than 100 countries at the COP26 climate summit in 2021. The signatories pledged to stop forest loss and land degradation by 2030.

Apply for the Climate Journalism Award

With the Climate Journalism Award we will acknowledge outstanding climate journalism that adopts an innovative or original storytelling approach. Stories can be submitted in five categories and winners will each receive a cash prize of €2,000. The Award is managed by the European Journalism Centre, in partnership with Google News Initiative.  The submission process starts on 14 June 2023, and ends on 17 July 2023 at 17:00 CEST. Print, online, video, and multi-platform storytelling formats are eligible to win an award and these may have been published behind a paywall. You can enter more than one submission but with a maximum of two categories per submission.

These are the best and worst cities in Europe for eco-friendly transport links

When it comes to eco-friendly public transport, it won’t surprise many that cities in Denmark, Norway and Sweden made the top ten. In fact, Copenhagen tops the chart, followed by Oslo, Paris, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Helsinki. Milan comes in seventh, with Lyon, Ljubljana and Lisbon rounding out the top spots. Paris, Helsinki, Lisbon and Brussels all scored a ten on their shared bikes and e-scooters ranking, while Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Ljubljana scored the same for electric car sharing. Not one city received full marks for zero-emission buses. The five worst overall scorers are Edinburgh, Birmingham, Granada, Dublin and lastly, Greater Manchester.

The climate change-denying TikTok post that won't go away

Earlier this year, TikTok vowed to clamp down on climate change denial. But a BBC investigation tracked one video that has been viewed millions of times - and found the company is struggling to stop false climate information from spreading across the platform. If you searched for "climate change" on TikTok in recent months, you might have come across a video featuring Dan Peña, a self-styled "business success coach" with thousands of followers on social media. The video, shot during the 2017 London premiere of a documentary film about Mr Peña, shows a heated exchange between the American businessman and a member of the audience.

China urges developing countries to oppose ‘unrealistic’ shipping levy

China has urged poorer countries to oppose a levy on shipping emissions and stronger targets for decarbonising one of the world’s most polluting industries, criticising wealthy nations for setting “unrealistic” goals with “significant” financial costs. Beijing distributed a “diplomatic note” to developing nations as they prepared for a critical meeting at the UN’s International Maritime Organization in July, according to four people present at IMO discussions. The lobbying effort comes days after France rallied 22 allies behind a shipping emissions levy. China warned that “an overly ambitious emission reduction target will seriously impede the sustainable development of international shipping, significantly increase the cost of the supply chain and will adversely impede the recovery of the global economy”. 

Watch One Year Of Carbon Emissions Take Over The Planet

It’s hard to miss something that weighs 37 billion tons—especially when it’s all around us. Thirty-seven billion tons is the amount of fossil-fuel-related carbon dioxide humans release into the atmosphere every year. We see the damage it does everywhere—from heat waves to floods to droughts to wildfires and more. But the CO2 itself? Entirely invisible. Until now. In a striking new video, NASA has made visible the production—and, in some cases, absorption—of human-produced carbon dioxide for the entirety of the year 2021. Over that period, the CO2 in the atmosphere rose by 2.13 parts per million (PPM), marking the eleventh year in a row in which the increase exceeded 2 PPM. 

The choice between a poorer today and a hotter tomorrow

The thought experiment is a simplified version of a dilemma currently facing global institutions and developing countries. On June 22nd politicians arrived in Paris for a summit to design “a new global financial pact”. The aim was to work out how to spread the cost of climate change. Leaders from poor countries turned up in droves; aside from Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, no Western head of state made it. Little surprise, then, that the jamboree ended without rich countries contributing a single extra dollar. Instead, attendees tinkered with the World Bank and the IMF, the biggest of the multilateral agencies that seek to reduce poverty. The lack of action means painful trade-offs lie ahead.

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