The Deputy Minister of Environment and Water Reneta Koleva and NGO representatives discussed investment intentions for the construction of additional facilities for waste utilization by incineration. “We cannot stop legal entities from making investment proposals, but we can assess them and prevent potential risks to the environment,...

  The Ministry of Environment and Water and the regional administrations will take joint actions to ensure the conductivity of riverbeds in order to prevent and protect against floods. This became clear at an online meeting attended by the Minister of Environment and Water Rositsa Karamfilova, the Deputy Minister Petar Dimitrov, regional gove...

  62 million BGN have been provided by the Operational Program “Environment 2014 – 2020” (OPE) to improve the environmental protection status of forest natural habitats through afforestation. The funds will be used to fulfill Bulgaria’s key commitment for the EU initiative to plant three billion new trees in fulfillmen...

  Given the challenges of the energy crisis, we need joint efforts, shared responsibility, and cooperation among stakeholders to ensure that the transition to a green economy is fair for all. This was said by the Deputy Minister of Environment and Water Reneta Koleva at the opening yesterday of a forum for green business, organized by the Bri...

  The Monitoring Committee for the “Environment” Program 2021-2027, at its first meeting held on December 2, 2022, approved an indicative annual work program for 2023 worth over 2 billion BGN. The head of the Program Environment 2021-2027 Management Authority Galina Simeonova presented the program as approved by the European Comm...

  December 5 was designated by the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) and officially celebrated as World Soil Day for the first time in 2014. This year’s World Soil Day (World Soil Day 2022) initiatives are under the theme “Soils: Where Food Begins” and aim to raise awareness of the importance of maintaining health...

  The Minister of Environment and Water Rositsa Karamfilova issued an order to declare the protected area “Alpine Newt habitats in Ruy Planina” in the lands of the villages of Rani lug and Nasalevtsi, municipality of Trun, district of Pernik, with a total area of nearly 50 decares. The protected area was declared on the basis of ...

Operational program “Environment 2014-2020” reported on the results achieved in terms of completed activities at an annual information event at the Water Tower in Sofia. The Minister of Environment and Water Rositsa Karamfilova welcomed the participants at the Annual Information Event of the Operational Program "Environment 2014-2020" ...

The Standing Committee of the Berne Convention decided to close the file on the Kaliakra case related to the construction of wind farms in the region of Kaliakra and Balchik. This happened at a meeting of the Committee, which took place in the period November 28 - December 2, 2022 in Strasbourg. The file is from 2004, and in 2007 the Standing Commi...

The new center of the Mountain Rescue Service at the Seven Rila Lakes will shorten rescue operations by at least two hours. The premises are part of the Control and Information Center of the Rila National Park Directorate and will be used jointly with the mountain rescue team in Dupnitsa. The premises are already being equipped with the necessary s...

“The challenges ahead of us are to increase the amount of recycled waste in the future,” said Deputy Minister of Environment and Water Reneta Koleva at a conference on the topic “From waste management to resource management”, organized yesterday by the French Institute in Bulgaria. Attaining resource efficiency means achiev...

  Implementing environmentally-friendly practices, improving tourist infrastructure in a sustainable way, and encouraging more hotels to introduce “green” solutions - these topics were discussed by the Minister of Environment and Water Rositsa Karamfilova and the Minister of Tourism Ilin Dimitrov at a working meeting today at the ...