{"id":9770,"date":"2023-05-19T09:49:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T09:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reri.org.rs\/?p=9770"},"modified":"2023-05-20T10:01:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T10:01:52","slug":"western-balkan-coal-project-energy-environmental-democracy-and-clean-air-in-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reri.org.rs\/en\/western-balkan-coal-project-energy-environmental-democracy-and-clean-air-in-serbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Balkan Coal Project: Energy, Environmental Democracy and Clean Air in Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The objective of the project is to advance the energy transition in Serbia and a transition towards clean energy systems in the Western Balkan region with significantly reduced environmental impact, including impacts on health, climate and biodiversity and to strengthen environmental democracy in Serbia with increased civil society participation in permit proceedings and other environmental procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why?<\/strong>\u00a0Application of adopted environmental standards and law enforcement is on unsatisfied level. Constant progress in transposition of EU environmental acquis and standards is not followed by increased capacities of administration and judicial institutions which should be able to provide proper access to justice in case where rights to health and a quality environment, as well as to good governance, are endangered.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>How?<\/strong>\u00a0Renewables and Environmental Regulatory Institute aims to:\u00a0<strong>1. Advance<\/strong>\u00a0the energy transition in Serbia and further the managed closure of coal power plants;\u00a0<strong>2. Advocate<\/strong>\u00a0for a transition towards clean energy systems in the Western Balkan region with significantly reduced environmental impact;\u00a0<strong>3. Expose<\/strong>\u00a0poor compliance with EU air pollution and industrial emission laws and regulations;\u00a0<strong>4. Create<\/strong>\u00a0a broader culture of accountability and to strengthen environmental democracy in Serbia with increased civil society participation in permit proceedings and other environmental procedures;\u00a0<strong>5. Reinforce<\/strong>\u00a0the impact of legal practitioners and judicial institutions to the application of environmental protection standards.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Target groups?<\/strong>\u00a0Civil society activists and community based groups; legal practitioners; experts and professional associations in the field of environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Activities<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Monitor and participate in permit proceedings for coal activities, such as large lignite combustion plants and mines;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Initiate proceedings against the responsible Serbian authorities for not enforcing the Serbian National Emission Reduction Plan;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The project is being realized from 1 September 2019 to 31 December 2023 in cooperation with Client Earth within the ClientEarth\u2019s Energy Programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The objective of the project is to advance the energy transition in Serbia and a transition towards clean energy systems\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1545,1546],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reri.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reri.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reri.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reri.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reri.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reri.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9771,"href":"https:\/\/reri.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9770\/revisions\/9771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reri.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reri.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reri.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reri.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}