EU has lifted sanctions from Belarus, which is giving new opportunities for the country to use its Astravets nuclear power plant (NPP) which is currently in construction, writes Beata Stur.
21.03.2016 | 11:22
The Paris Climate Change Conference has finished. Belarus undertook obligation not to exceed the percentage of emissions, which we have not even reached yet.
16.12.2015 | 08:38
Lithuania is not planning to buy electricity from Astravets nuclear power plant that is being constructed close to Belarus-Lithuania border in the future.
15.11.2015 | 12:18
This weekend “U” Gallery hosted visit to the vegetable garden, exhibitions, lections, discussions, farmer market, and many other interesting and useful events.
31.08.2015 | 08:21
The Forum is organized to strengthen public ecologic movement in Belarus, as well as to provide a place for communication for the representatives of the country’s ecologic organizations.
25.07.2015 | 10:01
On May 28 at 5 p.m. a meeting dedicated to the discussion of EIA (Environment impact assessment) of the second runway under construction in the National airport will be held in Smaliavichy.
28.05.2015 | 10:53
“Green Network” Partnership invites to take part in the roundtable «Access to Justice on Environmental Issues in Belarus» that is to take place on 25 May in Minsk.
22.05.2015 | 08:47
However, environmentalists claim that the smoke from wildfires may be dangerous and lead to secondary radioactive contamination of adjacent areas.
30.04.2015 | 10:13
Annual street demonstration “Chernobyl Way” is aimed at attracting the attention of society and authorities to the problems Belarus is facing after the explosion at the Chernobyl NPP.
28.04.2015 | 10:22
Paucity of “Chernobyl Way” doesn’t mean that the society forgot about the Chernobyl catastrophe as such. It only shows how society treats opposition.
27.04.2015 | 10:58
In the map of radioactive contamination of the Belarusan territory stale data is used. The current level of pollution is measured pointwise. We don’t have documented history of Chernobyl either.
13.04.2015 | 08:54
By 2036 grass will be growing at the place of Lithuanian NPP. It seems that Russian-speaking Visaginas has stuck in time and shuns Lithuanization, and the plant looks like a grave of USSR spirit.
06.04.2015 | 08:30
The Flying University and ecological association “Green network” on October 28 in Minsk presented public lecture of Professor Aleh Cherp “Scenarios of the future: ecology vs. politics”.
30.10.2014 | 09:32
The country does not only bear material losses due to the abnormally high temperature; those who are meteodependent without any exaggeration risk their lives this summer.
09.08.2014 | 08:42
The maximum program of the “Green Forum” is to create a network of the organizations, which would be able to set and resolve ecologic tasks at short notice.
21.07.2014 | 08:42
Representatives of Belarus’ and Lithuania’s ecologic community believe that the decision of the parties to the Convention on Espoo as of June 10 in regard to the Belarusan NPP to be unreasonably mild.
12.06.2014 | 09:02
At a meeting in Geneva parties to the Convention confirmed that Belarusan nuclear power plant in Astravets breaches the UN Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context.
11.06.2014 | 11:34
All controversial issues related to the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Belarus, Russia's nuclear chief Sergei Kirienko stated.
09.06.2014 | 11:19
Last Saturday evening traditional Chernobyl path was held in Minsk to mark the 28th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. This time, the demonstration attracted very few people.
28.04.2014 | 10:59
He said Belarus would likely face economic tightening not only as a result of the coronavirus pandemic but also a Russian trade oil crisis that worsened this past winter.
In his report, philosopher Gintautas Mažeikis discusses several concepts that have been a part of the European social and philosophical thought for quite a time.
It is impossible to change life in cities just in three years (the timeline of the “Agenda 50” campaign implementation). But changing the structure of relationships in local communities is possible.