SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The new Energy Portal Magazine on SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT will not disappoint any reader who cares about the environment, nature, and future. To all of you who think of nature as a support, this magazine will yield new insights into how far our civilization has shaped up into applying the principles of sustainable development in various areas where they have been applied for decades. In the opening article, we are presenting you Goran Trivan, the Minister of Environmental Protection, who got this position after having been the City Secretary for Ecology and chairing his City team that had been putting a lot of effort to make Belgrade greener. We continue to publish stories of good practice examples from countries where they are fighting climate change in an innovative and resolute way. In …

ECOHEALTH

We have dedicated the new number of our magazine to an important topic on Eco-Health that is not sufficiently represented in our public, as opposed to global institutions and media, where data and interpretations on the interaction between ecology and general health are almost daily. The decision to deal with the cause-effect relationship between the state of the environment and public health has brought us the challenge to cover the ecosystem in an integrated way, analyzing its individual parts according to the information available in our country. As the institutions define the concept of EcoHealth and systematic care about it, we presented through a “two-way” interview with representatives of the key institutions of the Republic of Serbia in this area – the Batut Institute and Environmental Protection Agency. We also …

ECOMOBILITY

For this issue we have chosen a very current topic of ECOMOBILITY that has the fastest development rate in the world and is about to play increasingly important role in the region and in the Republic of Serbia) in an interesting way. For the first time we have public figures from our county and region as interlocutors who have tried to present the progress in eco-mobility as well as their contribution to this plan such are Jan Lundin – the Swedish Ambassador, Rambo Amadeus, Nikola Rajaković – professor at ETF and Saša Cvetojević, but that is not all. We also talked to General Managers of the leading car manufacturers: Milan Lazić – General Manager of VW, Milan Belin – General Manager of Renault and Aleksandra Đurđević – General Manager of Delta …

Energy Efficiency

Energy portal prepared new bulletin entitled “Energy Efficiency” at the right time. Centre for Energy Management Training at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade has just started with its operation. We talked to Professor Maja Todorović about this project. Projects for the improvement of energy efficiency in municipalities have also started, the funds were allocated and aimed at concrete facilities. Representatives of the municipalities Babušnica, Žagubica and Kragujevac gave us more information on this topic. GIZ successfully gathers documentation and implements very significant project in the field of implementing energy efficiency in public buildings. We also have the honour to publish the interview with Mr Đorđe Raković from the Guarantee Fund of AP Vojvodina and to present to you the company SIKA. The ground for the implementation of the EU …