1 July 2021
The Parliament of the Republic of North Macedonia yesterday adopted the Law on declaring part of Shar Mountain a national park. With this act, Shar Mountain became the fourth national park in the country, but also the first to be declared since the country’s independence. The last declaration of a national park in Macedonia happened […]
14 May 2021
President of North Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski this afternoon notified the President of the Parliament, Talat Xhaferi that he decided to not sign the Decree promulgating the law for legalizing the illegally constructed buildings. Pendarovski said that this decision was made on the basis of a detailed analysis of the Law’s content, when he determined it […]
14 May 2021
There is still a great interest in North Macedonia for producing electricity from the sun and water as renewable sources of energy (RSE) compared to remaining sources of green energy. Like in the previous years, the number of newly built energy plants in the last year were photovoltaic plants, while the small hydro power plants […]
18 February 2021
Although a positive step, the activities toward reducing the air pollution in North Macedonia which were undertaken in the past three years did not reach the set goals and did not provide the desired effect, declares the State Audit Office – SAO of North Macedonia in its final audit report on the monitoring of the […]
24 January 2021
A usual morning at a bakery in Skopje… Two-quarters of burek and two cans of yogurt, says customer Tome. He came to buy breakfast for his family, but he forgot to take the cloth bag with him. Even if he had taken it with him, the saleswoman would have been surprised if Tome had offered […]
30 November 2020
Civil society organizations are urging the Ministry of Environment of North Macedonia to revise the Law for declaring Shar Mountain a national park since, as they state, the proposed draft law doesn’t offer protection from the negative influence of the mini hydro power plants. Environmentalists from 44 associations and initiatives, with a joint stance, have […]
8 October 2020
The chemical tank containing vinyl chloride monomer from the OHIS Industrial complex near Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, was transferred to Germany where the hazardous chemical will be incinerated at the SUEZ Sonderabfallgesellschaft incinerator. It’s a historical waste of around 13 tons that was repackaged by experts from the French company Curium from an […]
30 September 2020
The capture of small rivers and sentencing to death the whole biodiversity in the surrounding area is a consequence of the enormous number of concessions for micro hydropower plants that have no serious contribution to the country’s energy resources. The civil society organizations appeal to the Government of North Macedonia, even to its own detriment, […]
1 September 2020
Intensive greenification and change of the means of heating the institutions and homes, as one of the urgent responses to air pollution; then, appropriate waste treatment and new transport policies with a stress on subventions for ecological vehicles and bikes, are some of the Government’s main environmental goals in its program for the period 2020-2024. […]
31 August 2020
The destruction of water resources in order to build micro hydro power plants must stop, appeals the Civil society organization “Eko svest” (Eco Consciousness). They are reacting to the last case of destruction of Markova Reka (Marko’s River) upper stream, so that a micro hydropower plant can be built. There was also a reaction on […]
27 August 2020
The environmental organizations alarm that the planning and the building of micro hydro power plants on the Shar Mountain and the issuing of concessions for them should stop. These energy facilities provide minimal contributions to the country’s total energy balance, but are causing enormous damage to the rivers’ potentials, which due to the climate changes […]
10 August 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has put the world in crucible. The economies, health systems, and the education are in the process of creating habits for the “new normal” that, when we are at it, mustn’t ignore the environment and the fight against the climate change. There are cries that are getting louder and louder that the […]
2 June 2020
Even though it was declared a priority two years ago, the Bill on Protection of Vodno still hasn`t become a law. According to the last study of the valorization of the Forest and Park “Vodno”, the protection of this area is envisioned in the lower environmenta category. This means that Vodno, instead of protection by […]
31 May 2020
The leafy vegetables, especially the parsley, in Veles, have the highest concentration of heavy metals. The soil analyses conducted in 2018 and 2019, show that the vegetables the people in Veles consume, have 1.5 times higher concentrations of lead above the approved limits and 2.5 times higher concentration of cadmium. This pollution is a result […]
27 May 2020
The Government of the Republic of North Macedonia has unilaterally terminated the contracts for five concessions in the vicinity of Labunishta village in the Struga area, informed the Economy Minister Kreshnik Bekteshi during today’s press conference. These concessions were terminated with the aim to protect local population’s health, but also the environment in the region. […]
16 May 2019
The Government annulled the concession procedure for the hydro power plant (HPP) Zhirovnica 3 at the Mavrovo National Park. It was one of three concessions that were withdrawn at yesterday’s session, when the Government also granted 18 concessions for the construction of other small hydroelectric plants in the country. This decision of the Government comes […]
26 April 2018
Dutch ambassador Wouter Plomp, UK ambassador Charles Garrett and US ambassador Jess Baily together with Deputy Prime Minister Bujar Osmani, today cleaned the scattered rubbish along the city riverbanks in an eco-action, which was organized for the third consecutive year by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands on the Vardar river behind Luna […]
