Tag: green economy

EBRD and EU finance Serbian businesses via OTP Banka Serbia

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing 60 million euros in financing to OTP Banka in Serbia. As part of the financial package, 10 million euros will be lent...

RENEWABLE SOURCES KEY TO ENERGY SECURITY

Warm sea, pleasant climate and authentic architecture - this is perhaps the shortest description of one of the most popular tourist destinations on the European continent and the largest country on the...

SDGs & me: Responsible consumption and production

Consumption and production patterns have wide environmental and social impacts. The Sustainable Development Goal 'Responsible consumption and production' (SDG 12) calls for action on many fronts. These include the adoption of sustainable...

EBRD Provides USD 127 Million Loan to Turkey’s Isbank

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing USD 127 million in new funding to Isbank for on-lending to women-led businesses and to facilitate Turkey’s transition to a green economy. The...

Young People Call for Intergenerational Solidarity on the Climate Crisis

Young people bear a disproportionate burden of the environmental crises the world faces today, which will impact their future. Research shows that many young people feel frustrated and unheard, creating a sense...

EBRD Supports Small Businesses and Female Entrepreneurs in Kosovo

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is backing women entrepreneurs and small businesses in Kosovo with a new financing package to Agency for Finance in Kosovo (AFK), a microfinance institution. Some...

EBRD Loan and EU Grants to OTP Leasing to Support SMEs in Serbia

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is extending a EUR 10 million loan to OTP Leasing Serbia doo Novi Beograd to support the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)...

Energy and Ecology Together to Strengthen Nature

International Energy Fair is the largest and most respectable annual regional get together of companies, corporations, entrepreneurships, institutions and professionals in the sectors of electricity, coal, oil and gas, renewable energy sources,...

With the Power of Nature to a Better Life

16 th International Energy Fair, which is being held at the Belgrade Fair from the 23 rd to the 25 th of November, comes at a time of deep and global energy...

What Skills do Youth Need for Green Jobs of the Future?

In the next decade, millions of new “green” jobs will be created in new-wave industries, like solar energy, and established fields, like architecture, fashion and farming. For young people, these jobs will represent...

Cleantech Entrepreneurs Driving a Green Recovery in Barbados

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Eastern Caribbean island nation, famed for its beautiful landscapes, pristine white-sand beaches and temperate climate, attracted around a million tourists each year. But with travel restrictions across...

Jadarite Between Business Secret and Public Interest

The American information site Bloomberg published an estimate that lithium demand will increase eight times in the next ten years. This forecast does not seem surprising, since there is already an almost...

EBRD, EU and Donors Support SMEs and Green Homes in North Macedonia

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing two loans of €3.5 million combined to ProCredit Bank Skopje in order to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to reach EU standards...

Serbia Completes Modernisation of Water and Wastewater Network in Subotica

Serbia’s northern city of Subotica is now equipped with a modern water and wastewater network and facilities thanks to a decade-long engineering endeavour supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development...

What Are the Biggest Risks to Business? New Data Shows Climate Concerns Are Rising

An overly simplistic view of global economics has fuelled climate denial and skepticism for decades. Some opponents of climate change mitigation policies argue that achieving any progress would require an impossible retrofitting...

A Future in Recycling: From Street Waste Collector to Entrepreneur

Young people on parts of the African continent sometimes turn to waste management as an ad hoc or extra job to make small money when they are struggling with unemployment, but often...

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