Ecology

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Ecology is one of the most important focuses of the HBS work in Croatia. In our activities it implies intense work in the environmental protection, compliance with (and implementation) of the legislation adjusted to EU acquis and strengthening of legal mechanisms in the environmental protection. For us, environmental issues are inevitably and tightly linked with the human rights protection and we aim to translate this relationship into our own activities or the activities of our partner organisations. In this context, our activities can be tracked in the scope from monitoring and analysis of the developments in the environmental, energy and climate policy to the active involvement in organising actions in cooperation with our partners. more»

We need to change

November 21, 2012 - Recent study on sustainable development perspectives for Croatia after Rio 20+ is available here.

Publication

One Step Forward and Two Sideward Regional Analyses of Climate Policy in 2010 and the Cancun Climate Conference (COP 16)

- January 28, 2011 - Hereby we provide common HBF climate analysis of COP 16 in Cancun. For more click here

The Balkans: Energy Independence or Energy Interdependence?

- November 19, 2010 - In a globalised world, energy independence can not be achieved. Successful energy policies require inter-sectoral co-operation, supervision, and long-term public policies concerning employment, the environment, and investment. Ana-Maria Boromisa more»

Tipping point

From a group of spiders to a pack of starfish

- September 24, 2010 -

Instead of relying on huge capital investments, the Croatian government might focus on increasing the proximity of energy sources to its end users. A greater use of decentralized energy sources, such as efficiency technologies and renewable energy would have various positive effects.

Mak Dukan more»

Publication

Climate Change and Democratisation

- July 16, 2010 - You can download the book here, Pdf, 437 kb Peter Burnell

News

WHAT'S CLIMATE GOT TO DO WITH IT?

- May 5, 2010 - Expert round table: Climate change and new migration flows: climate migration impacts on EU migration and asylum policy

Around 20 experts and activists from climate policy field and immigration and asylum policy took part in the HBS expert talk on climate migration which was held on 23rd of April 2010 in Zagreb in premises of Goethe Institute Croatia. Lack of coherence and coordination between these two policy settings and lack of recognition of climate migrants as the new category in the international legal framework were, in adittion to discussion on security and solidarity, two most important departure points of the discussion.

Current affairs

Is Copenhagen Allowed to Kill Kyoto?

- December 19, 2009 - The redirection of financial flow to more pure and green technologies may indeed occur after Copenhagen, but will this process be managed by those who have built it? Will the principles of justice, solidarity and transparency be incorporated into this process? This concept is probably not very interesting to the delegates of about thirty of the most developed countries who have been sketching new agreements in the Bella Center in the past days. It seems that big business has succeeded in skilfully capturing the climate change discourse and has now redirected all available development and humanitarian resources by calling it reductively a solidarity to combat climate changes in developing countries. Vedran Horvat more»

Video

FADE In - Climate Change

A video produced by Fade In for the HBS Zagreb

Publication

Western Balkan countries face their first recession

The world economic system has evolved to a state in which national economies are highly interconnected and interdependent. This means that what may at first sight appear to be a US economic problem could soon develop into a worldwide phenomenon, with its consequences sparing no one.
By Dr Igor Matutinović more»