This report looks at three countries in southeast Europe that have been sometimes seen as reluctant to embrace the transition towards the European Green Deal: Bulgaria, Greece and Romania. The analysis considers the status of their wholesale and retail markets; interconnectivity and market coupling; the independence of national regulatory authorities, and the obstacles to the adopting the energy acquis.
This brief proposes policy recommendations to ensure that forest-based solutions be considered for recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and building back better.
United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme Fourth session. Nairobi, 11–15 March 2019
The report lays out specific financial strategies that utilities and policy-makers can use to engineer a faster phase-out of coal in various regions of the world.
This series of factsheet (in Portuguese) from UNEP provides guidelines on how to deal with COVID-19 related wastes and provides alternative information needed to assess the problem.