Still stuck in the air-pollution dodgeball
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency published the Annual Report on the State of Air Quality in the Republic of Serbia for 2023. The report provides an overview that indicates…
Tracking Progress at SB60: Energy, Finance, and Climate Action Insights
Author and photo credit: Zvezdana Božović At this year’s SB60, the 60th Meeting of the Subsidiary Bodies to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Bonn…
Can we afford to continue investing so little in solving a problem so costly: how to finance household heating upgrades?
Author: Rafael Pupovac, Business analyst and consultant Inefficient heating devices are the primary source of PM2.5 emissions in the Western Balkans. The total number of annual premature deaths in the…
Does your house have a coat for the winter?
Author: Zdravko Stefanovski, grad.mech.eng. Senior Technical Energy Efficiency Expert The building stock is both unique and heterogeneous in its relation to the cultural diversity and history of the Western Balkans.…
What is the future of biomass-based household heating devices in the Western Balkans?
Author: Dušan Kitanović The market for heating systems in the Western Balkans used to be traditionally dominated by solid fuel appliances which were cheap to buy and supplied with fuel…
Mass change-out scheme? Who’s going to do it?
Author: Pavle Golicin You’re smart… You change the old for the new… You change the bad for the good… You change the wrong for the right… Thinking about the change-out…
Publicly funded change-out schemes for wood-fired stoves must be conditional on the safe and efficient turnover of old devices: Here’s why
Author: Rebeka Božović Throw-away society, but No-throw-away stove “Smederevac?” scrap metal dealers were almost puzzled when we interviewed them for the quantities of scrap metal coming from disused solid fuel…