Press releases

2009

Asia-Europe Public Panel on the Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Climate Change May 08, 2009 The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), in partnership with the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC), presented the Asia-Europe Public Panel “Competing Crises: An Asia-Europe Response to the Economic Crisis and Its Impact on...

Turkish Grand National Assembly decides to accede to the Kyoto Protocol February 16, 2009 Turkey acceded to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2004, ten years after its entry into force. Turkey has today acceded to the Kyoto Protocol four years after it came into force in 2005. Through the law now adopted by...

Young Energy Savers February 09, 2009 YES is the first of three animation projects that will be developed over the next two years with the support of the European Commission. The second project, ACTIVE, will create a series of animations to help children understand the importance of healthy...

Boosting local biodiversity action in Southeastern Europe January 29, 2009 The project - which focuses on small municipalities in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo/a (under UNSCR 1244) - aims to assist in reducing the downward spiral of poverty, biodiversity...

2008

Energy and Climate Change: The Role of Business and Government - How to Define a Joint Operational Approach? November 20, 2008 Norway started taking global warming seriously quite early with the adoption of a CO2-tax in 1991. Since then, a range of additional policy instruments have been implemented to reduce domestic greenhouse gas emissions. Today, as much as 70 per cent of...

REC Conference Center Opens June 26, 2008 Krüll-Ung Kft. – shades and blinds Oktoklima Kft. – heat pumps and air-handling units Philips Lighting – lighting system Rheinzink – building envelope Sanyo Hungary Kft. – solar panels Sauter Automatika Kft. –...