On April the 25th (2024)a stakeholders’ meeting was held at the Balkan Hotel in Sofia on the progress of the Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) - right before its finalization by June 30th. The meeting was jointly organized by Za Zemiata, the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) and the Center for Energy Efficiency "EnEfect"...
The first NECP draft is a timid and partial plan to meet climate goals by 2030...
Za Zemiata Friends of the Earth Bulgaria has taken the initiative to send a letter to the Minister for Energy and Minister of Environment and Waters about the need to increase the national contribution to the 2030 EU-wide energy efficiency target before 1 February under the EED...
Bulgaria has not yet submitted its draft National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) update, nor started any form of public consultation, as of 30 September 2023. It is not clear what the progress on the update is, as no draft or relevant related studies have been released so far. With the new government, a first draft might be expected in late Autumn. Based on previous experiences and available information, civil society organisations have developed a set of recommendations...
Za Zemiata and 8 more Bulgarian NGOs signed the international open letter calling for timely public participation in the NECP revision process.The letter was supported by Members of the Climate Coalition of Bulgaria, the Coalition for Green Restart, by the Municipal Energy Efficiency Network EcoEnergy and other. The organizations reached out to the newly elected regular ministers of Environment and Energy, demanding immediately all draft version of the NECP, models and analyses done so far to be made public and a consultation process to finally start...
The public launch of the Together For 1.5 Project in Bulgaria happened on 30th March 2023, as part of the monthly thematical in-person meetings with volunteers and supporters of Za Zemiata, called "Code: GREEN". The event coincided with the last day of the election campaign for the 6th-in-a-row Parliamentary elections. There are many hopes of forming a regular government that can pursue ambitious climate actions as one of its priorities..
Beneficial for municipalities and citizens - cycling initiatives are hindered due to national level undecidedness...
Shared electric mobility is boosting with almost no public support, if institutions join forces with private investors even more citizens would will get out of their fossil- fuel-runned-vehicles..
While the RES share in electricity generation is still very modest and Bulgaria has 33% protected territories, the interim government has huge plans for green hydrogen production for...
100 thousand renovations of energy-poor households is a feasible target for the initial Energy poverty Mechanism implementation. This firstly to improve the energy efficiency...
The newly introduced good practice on multilevel dialogue for the implementation of the Green Deal in Bulgaria have been almost suspended under interim governments..
Allow the coal regions that understand the benefits of just energy transition to access the resources to do it..