“It is time to realize that waste is not to stay in the landfills. This is a resource that should continue its cycle - to be utilized and recycled,” said Deputy Minister Reneta Koleva during the Forum “Green Solutions for Municipalities” within the framework of the annual meeting of local authorities, organized by th...

  The Minister of Environment and Water Rositsa Karamfilova issued an order declaring protected five centuries-old trees in the districts of Blagoevgrad, Pernik, Kyustendil, and Lovech. Two of the newly announced centuries-old trees are of the species blagun (Quercus frainetto). One is 356 years old, with a height of 13 m, trunk circumferenc...

  The Deputy Minister of Environment and Water Reneta Koleva insisted that preventive and ongoing actions should be urgently taken in case of concerning data from the early warning system, so as to prevent and reduce air pollution with sulfur dioxide. The meeting with representatives of the four power plants in the “Maritsa East” ...

  The Minister of Environment and Water Rositsa Karamfilova met with the Chargée d’Affairs of the German Embassy in Sofia Mrs. Irene Plank. The two discussed current issues related to the upcoming 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), which will be held on November 6...

  Over BGN 715 million will be invested directly in activities and measures to improve air quality under the Program “Environment” 2021-2027. This was clarified during a working meeting yesterday, which was attended by the Deputy Minister of the Environment and Water Reneta Koleva, the director general of the Directorate General &...

  The Program “Environment” 2021-2027 has been officially approved by the European Commission. Its planned budget amounts to 3 565 881 509 BGN and the official confirmation came a month earlier before the deadline, which is a result of the consistent efforts by the leadership team of the Ministry of Environment and ...

  The Minister of Environment and Water Rositsa Karamfilova met with the Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning of North Macedonia Nasser Nuredini. The meeting took place today in the fringes of the Ninth Ministerial Conference “Environment for Europe”, which is held in Nicosia, Cyprus. The two agreed on future joint project...

  “Our children have a real chance to drive the processes so that we all live in a better and cleaner environment. I hope that it is through children and education from an early age that in the future, when we announce statistics on progress on environmental goals, the numbers will speak for some very good results that we have achieved&...

  The Minister of Environment and Water Rositsa Karamfilova participated in the Ninth Ministerial Conference “Environment for Europe”, which is held today and tomorrow in Cyprus and marks 30 years of environmental cooperation in the pan-European region. More than 1,000 delegates from over 60 countries will participate. The first m...

  The management body of the Program “Environment” 2021 - 2027 under the Ministry of Environment and Water launched a selection procedure for nonprofit legal entities to apply for membership in the Monitoring Committee of the new “Environment” Program 2021-2027. The monitoring committee of the program monitors program...

  The state and the municipalities need to work jointly to identify measures for air quality, so as to achieve more sustainable and effective results. The aim is to identify actions for the short, medium, and long term, but also for immediate implementation. This was stated by the Deputy Minister of Environment and Water Reneta Koleva at the ...

  Changes in the regulatory framework oblige the operators of large combustion plants to ensure continuous submission to the Executive Agency for Environment of the half-hourly or average hourly values of emissions of harmful substances released into the atmospheric air, as measured and validated through their own monitoring systems according...