Deputy Minister of Environment and Water Nikolay Sidzhimov participated in the Sixth Session of the UN Environment Assembly, which took place from 26 February to 1 March 2024 at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. In his national address during the high-level segment, Deputy Minister Sidzhimov emphasized the need to...

The Minister of Environment and Water Julian Popov and the Vice President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Kyriakos Kakouris today signed a service agreement for advisory support for projects in the field of environment. The agreement provides for the EIB to provide to the Programme "Environment" 2021-2027 expert support on the effective impl...

Minister of Environment and Water Julian Popov participated in a follow-up meeting with representatives of stakeholders to report on the progress of introducing a deposit system for certain packaging waste in Bulgaria. The system will at a minimum include beverage packaging for bottled water, soft drinks, beer and cider from 0.1 to 3 litres of plas...

Eco-innovation plays a leading role in addressing the challenges of resource efficiency, the circular economy, and zero pollution "Sustainable transformation and the green transition of enterprises are seen as challenges, but these are also opportunities. Eco-innovation has a leading role to play in overcoming the challenges of resource efficiency...

The Minister of Environment and Water Julian Popov is part of the Bulgarian delegation led by the Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov on the visit to Kiev, which is to express Bulgarian support for Ukraine two years after the Kremlin's ruthless aggression. Members of the delegation expressed their confidence that Ukraine should benefit from the justice ...

Representatives of institutions, scientific and civil society organizations join forces to restore rivers to good health "We will develop an action plan for the ecological restoration of urban rivers, starting with focusing on Sofia's rivers." This was announced yesterday by the Minister of Environment and Water Julian Popov when he opened a meeti...

Bulgaria is among the countries where the traditions in the field of nature conservation have not been broken, and the Rila National Park is one of our most significant national achievements. It is the largest of the three national parks country-wide and one of the largest parks in Europe with an area of 81 046 ha. It was proclaimed on 24 February ...

"Preventive measures to tackle the challenges of climate change must be our top priority. We need to adapt and make our agriculture and forestry much more resilient". This was stated by the Deputy Minister of Environment and Water Reneta Koleva at a conference on the topic "Climate change - opportunities for transition to a sustainable food system ...

"Vitosha is a valuable natural asset in the green system of Sofia. There is a serious political, and now civic commitment to find a solution for both its development and protection." This is what the minister of Environment and Water Julian Popov said after today's round table on the topic "Sport and Tourism on the Territory of the Vitosha Nature P...

"The trend in Europe is to have the consumption of natural gas and coal decrease." This is what Environment and Water Minister Julian Popov said at the Energy Forum 2024 organized by the Capital newspaper. He noted that every year there is a decline in coal-fired power generation by 26%. "The data over the last 10 years show that gas is not a tran...

"Forest fires are a growing threat to the environment, related to droughts and climate change, so the Ministry of Environment and Water (MOEW) and the Ministry of Interior (MOI) are improving prevention." This was said by the Minister of Environment and Water Julian Popov, who today together with the Minister of Interior Kalin Stoyanov attended the...

The Minister of Environment and Water Julian Popov hosted a meeting for a public discussion of the draft Charter for Sustainable Tourism in Bulgaria, which was held today at the Ministry of Environment and Water. The document, drafted jointly with experts from the Ministry of Tourism, was presented and discussed among a wide range of participants. ...