The Living Water Exchange: Promoting Nutrient Reduction Best Practices was launched on December 4, 2008 as the next phase of the long-term commitment of the Global Environment Facility (GEF)/United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to achieving environmental health and significant nutrient reduction in water resources across the CEE and EECCA regions.
Project Objectives:
Limit the resurgence of agricultural and non-agricultural diffuse nutrient releases
Identify, capture, analyse and summarise best practices, lessons learned and technologies to reduce the impacts of nutrient loading in the region
Demonstrate successful replication strategies by facilitating pilot projects (e.g. agricultural improvements, wetlands restoration, other low-cost solutions to nutrient reduction etc.) and transferring knowledge to policy makers and practitioners in the region
Disseminate and promote nutrient reduction best practices and successful replication strategies in the region, among key decision makers, farmers, industries, other stakeholders and the general public
Beneficiary Countries: Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Montenegro, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine.
The project will work with a wide range of local, national and international stakeholders in the region to identify and evaluate the “best”, most appropriate practices and demonstrate that such practices can be cost-effectively and appropriately replicated in a very short demonstration project window of 10 months.
6-th International Congress on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Sources for South East Europe
Monday, 17 August 2009
6-th International Congress on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Sources for South East Europe - 14th to 16th April 2010 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
With world-known experts invited as key speakers and more than 600 specialists and investors expected to attend, the Congress promises to be a leading event for South-Eastern Europe. The parallel Exhibition will showcase the latest technologies, equipment and products in the field of EE and RES.
The two events give great opportunity not only to exchange valued knowledge and best practices with leading experts from EU but to meet face to face producers and traders from the Region of South-Eastern Europe for development of the local energy sources and for more energy independence by reaching the EU target 20%-20%-20%.
Traditionally Germany is the Congress Strategic Partner and Italy will be the Focus Country for 2010.
Environmental Collaboration for the Black Sea
Friday, 07 August 2009
This is the site of the EU funded regional Project on Environmental Collaboration for the Black Sea (ECBSea) launched in the EECCA countries – Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
More details could be found on official web site: www.ecbsea.org.
Last Updated ( Monday, 07 September 2009 )
World Environment Day 2009
Sunday, 24 May 2009
World Environment Day (WED) was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.
Commemorated yearly on 5 June, WED is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. The day's agenda is to:
Give a human face to environmental issues;
Empower people to become active agents of sustainable and equitable development;
Promote an understanding that communities are pivotal to changing attitudes towards environmental issues;
Advocate partnership which will ensure all nations and peoples enjoy a safer and more prosperous future.
The theme for WED 2009 is 'Your Planet Needs You-UNite to Combat Climate Change'. It reflects the urgency for nations to agree on a new deal at the crucial climate convention meeting in Copenhagen some 180 days later in the year, and the links with overcoming poverty and improved management of forests.
This year’s host is Mexico which reflects the growing role of the Latin American country in the fight against climate change, including its growing participation in the carbon markets.
Mexico is also a leading partner in UNEP's Billion Tree Campaign. The country, with the support of its President and people, has spearheaded the pledging and planting of some 25 per cent of the trees under the campaign. Accounting for around 1.5 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, the country is demonstrating its commitment to climate change on several fronts.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon states that the WED celebration will “further underline Mexico's determination to manage natural resources and deal with the most demanding challenge of the 21st century – climate change.”
Obsolete stockpiles of pesticides in the Central European and EECCA Countries and other regions – state-of-the-art of the solution of these problems 5 years after the Stockholm Convention has come into force 06 – 10 September, 2009, Brno, Czech Republic
ORGANIZERS:
International HCH & Pesticides Association (IHPA), The Netherlands
Ministry of Environment, Czech Republic
RECETOX, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Central and Eastern European Regional POPs Centre
Federal Environment Agency of Germany (UBA)
Institute of Public Health, Ostrava, Czech Republic
TOCOEN, s.r.o
HOST ORGANISATIONS:
International HCH & Pesticides Association (IHPA), The Netherlands,
Call for concept proposals in nutrient reduction best practices
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
The Living Water Exchange - A GEF/UNDP Project Promoting Nutrient Reduction Best Practices in Central and Eastern Europe - announces a call for concept proposals to support pilot demonstration projects focused on nutrient reduction practices in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) regions.
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REC Moldova :: www.rec.md :: webmaster@rec.md 
This is the site of the EU funded regional Project on Environmental Collaboration for the Black Sea (ECBSea) launched in the EECCA countries – Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. 
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