Advanced support on climate action legal framework discussed within the EU4Climate workshop in Ukraine In the framework of the EU4Climate project, Ukraine’s climate policies and legal framework were examined against the EU climate acquis to reveal the gaps and present recommendations. Based on the findings of the review, the Roadmap outlining the EU4Climate support in…
Baku, 24 August 2020 – This weekend, representatives from the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, EU and UNDP announced the winners of the Ozun Yarat competition. Over 200 submissions were received on Azerbaijan’s first upcycling platform, launched this World Environment Day, with the aim to encourage more people to upcycle products they’d normally throw away. “Ozun…
On 17th of August, the “National workshop on climate change budget tagging” was held online in the framework of “EU4Climate” regional project, funded by the European Union and implemented by the UNDP in Armenia. Among the six EaP countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine – Armenia hosts the first pilot study on climate…
The European Union continues strengthening the protection and sustainable use of biodiversity in Armenia in line with the European green principles. On 20 July 2020, the award ceremony of the three winners of the “Time #ForNature” youth poster contest took place in the Armenian Tree Project’s Ohanian Center for Environmental Education in Margavovit village, Lori region. The Contest was organized in celebration of World Environment Day on…
Rural Communities in Armenia Prove Forest Restoration is Everyone’s Responsibility – the EU’s Sustainable Model of Lowering Emissions ARMENIA. 15 June 2020 – Armenia and the other Eastern Partnership countries account for 1.17 percent of the world’s carbon emissions, yet almost 80 percent of these countries’ energy supply comes from fossil fuels. This is why EU supports…
Baku, 5 June 2020 – A new platform has been launched to encourage more people in Azerbaijan to ‘upcycle’ products they would normally throw away. Users of the platform – called Ozun Yarat, meaning ‘do-it-yourself’, or DIY – can find and share creative ideas for repurposing and reusing items. The best three ideas will be eligible for…
Trees Are Just Like Humans: they Require Love and Care-the EU Promotes Community-based Forest Management and Restoration ARMENIA. 5 June 2020-Almost thirty-thousand-hectare wood lies in a two-thousand-meter high area of what is known as the “Noyemberyan forestry enterprise”, the branch of HayAntar (ArmForest) in Armenia’s Tavush region. Oak trees, ashes, horn beams, beech, wild pear…
Georgia makes progress in adopting laws and policies to monitor and reduce greenhouse gas emissions The battle against COVID-19 is at the top of the policy agenda, but measures to fight climate change should not be forgotten in the pandemic. This was the consensus today as Georgian representatives met with European Union (EU) and Energy…
The urgent need to mitigate climate change and adapt to its impacts is increasingly clear, as reflected in the Paris Agreement (PA). As stated in Article 2, the Paris Agreement “aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, […], including by making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas…
The Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment presented to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) the second Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC2) of the Republic of Moldova and accompanying information to facilitate clarity, transparency and understanding with reference to the Paris Climate Agreement. “We are proud to announce that…
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