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Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulic and representatives of Italian companies yesterday signed agreements on the allocation of a portion of funds, i.e. €200,000, for Project Design Document (PDD) regarding Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects.
Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulic and representatives of Italian companies yesterday signed agreements on the allocation of a portion of funds, i.e. €200,000, for Project Design Document (PDD) regarding Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects.
Following the signing Dulic thanked the Italian government and their Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea for their donation, that will help finance three environmental projects.
He specified that these are projects for collecting and burning landfill gases at the Jovanovac landfill site, increasing energy efficiency at the Hipol factory and producing biomass to be used for energy production.
The Minister recalled that the projects will be implemented by three Italian companies, adding that a total of 80 projects were submitted to the Serbian Ministry of Environmental Protection and Spatial Planning, but only six of them will be carried out, for now.
Dulic stressed that these are small-scale projects, significant for the environment of local communities, adding that thanks to them the harmful effects of landfills on the environment will be removed and investors will be able to garner €40–80 million.
The Minister said that investment in the green economy is profitable and important for sustainable national development, adding that this will also create more jobs.
Both sides stated that CDM projects are important for the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and that they will contribute to sustainable national development, the reduction of harmful emissions and the acquisition of modern and energy efficient technologies.
Italian Ambassador to Serbia Armando Varricchio, who attended the signing, said that a department of the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea located in Serbia is helping Serbia to harmonise regulations with EU standards.
Varricchio said that cooperation also exists for the rehabilitation of certain extremely polluted areas and there are plans to implement important environmental projects in Pancevo and Kragujevac.
