Amenzile pentru defrisarile ilicite sunt drastice – 18.000 lei

Raidurile de contracarare vor incepe din data de 14 decembrie 2004 si vor continua pina la expirarea perioadei sarbatorilor de iarna. La aceste activitati sunt invitati toti voluntarii ecologi. Din ei deja si-au expus dorinta de a participa Asociatia Obsteasca "Viitorul Verde" care deja de 4 ani participa la astfel de activitati.

Legislatia in vigoare considera incalcare comercializarea fara documente ce ar confirma provenienta marfii comercializate (art. 156 Codul cu privire la Contraventiile Administrative al Republicii Moldova). Dar totusi cea mai considerabila infractiune este vatamarea plantelor din spatiile verzi, taierea sau stramitarea lor samovolnica in alte locruri fara permisiunea organului executiv al administratiei publice locale (art. 151, CCA al RM).

Dar cea mai grava raspundere este in urma articolului nr.65 al CCA al RM care stipuleaza taierea ilegala si vatamarea arborilor si arbustilor, distrugerea sau vatamarea culturilor de padure, a puietilor sau arborilor tineri di pepenieriile silvice si plantatii, precum si arborilor tineri de origine naturala si a semintisului natural pe suprafetele, destinate regenerarii padurii. Amenda pentru persoanele fizice de 50 salarii minime iar pentru cele cu functii de raspundere pina la 200 salarii minime. Mai mult ca atit, modificarile efectuate stipuleaza completarea cu alineatul 2 si 3 a prezentului articol care se completeaza cu urmatoarele "… Actiunile rpevazute in alineatul 1 al prezentului articol, savirsite de persoane responsabile de protectia si paza vegetatiei forestiere", atrage dupa sine aplicarea unei amenzi in marime de 300 de salarii minime. Autorizarea de catre persoane responsabile de protectia si paza vegetatiei forestiere a recoltarii masei lemnoase cu incalcarea prevederilor actelor legislative si ale altor acte normative atrage dupa sine aplicarea unei amenzi in marime de UNA MIE de salarii minime.

Astfel dragi cetateni care considerati ca sunteti mai presus decit legea, sunteti in stare sa platiti o amenda administrativa considerabila.

The Bulletin for Environmental Activists

1. ENVIRONMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
In response to last week’s special alert, you sent more than 9,300 messages
urging your representatives to approve several pro-environment amendments to
the FY05 Interior Appropriations bill (thank you!). Although the results are
mixed, your messages helped produce one significant victory, as the House voted
222-205 to restrict roadbuilding for commercial logging in the Tongass National
Forest. Continue reading The Bulletin for Environmental Activists

Call for tenders for the National and European Solar Prizes 2004

The award of the National and European Solar Prizes in 2004 – as in the years before – has the purpose, to widely spread the subject of Renewable Energies. Outstanding innovative projects and initiatives as to the use of Renewable Energies are awarded in different categories.  The call for tenders for the European Solar Prizes by the respective national EUROSOLAR-sections is running simultaneously in several European countries and the prizes are awarded by EUROSOLAR in cooperation with the KfW. The winners of the European Solar Prizes will be chosen among the applicants for the respective national Solar-Prizes. Continue reading Call for tenders for the National and European Solar Prizes 2004

Construction Works at the New Bridge Over the Danube Will Begin in July

Romanian and Bulgarian premiers, Adrian Nastase and Simeon Saxa-Coburg Gotha, have attended on Sunday a ceremony marking 50 years since the opening the existing bridge linking Giurgiu and Ruse.

The bridge was inaugurated on June 20 1954, after two years and three months of works and at that time it was one of the longest bridges in Europe, with a total length of 2.2 kilometers.

Adrian Nastase and Simeon Saxa-Coburg Gotha have symbolically met in the middle of the bridge and have attended ceremonies organized on both banks of the river.

INTERNATIONAL UTILITY EFFICIENCY PARTNERSHIPS INC.

This RFP is sponsored by the International Utility Efficiency Partnerships, Inc. (IUEP). The IUEP has been a leader among the industry groups that have supported voluntary initiatives to address global climate change. The IUEP maintains its leadership by supporting international GHG reduction projects under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Initi?tive on Joint Implementation (USIJI), and by partnering with U.S. and international organizations. Continue reading INTERNATIONAL UTILITY EFFICIENCY PARTNERSHIPS INC.

CHILDREN’S HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT IN LIMELIGHT OF CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS

REC coordinator for Azerbaijan Ilkin Kengerli noted that the main documents to be submitted to consideration of ministers are Ministerial Declaration and European action plan? Environment and Children’s Health?. Ministry of Health representative Fuad Mardanli spoke of such important things as access to quality of drinking water, elementary toilet conditions, safety of children?s food etc. Continue reading CHILDREN’S HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT IN LIMELIGHT OF CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS

RESOLUTION of the Forum of the NGOs from the Danube River Basin

We, the representatives of NGOs from 7 European countries, have concluded
thefollowing:

RECOGNISING the efforts of the Ukrainian Government to promote the socio-economic development of the Danub? region and to increase the well-being of its people by revitalizing the shipping on the Danube;

TAKING INTO ACCOUNT the high internatioinal status of the Danube Delta as one of the most important European wetlands, part of the UNESCO “Danube Delta” Biosphere Reserve, the biggest reedbed complex in the world, Ramsar Wetland Site of International Importance, and one of the 200 Global ecoregions selected by WWF; Continue reading RESOLUTION of the Forum of the NGOs from the Danube River Basin

Climate change puts pressure on London defences

"The biggest indicator of change that is already happening is usage of the Thames Barrier," King told the conference late on Monday.

"The Thames Barrier was designed to be used once every two or three years and in that period after it was built in 1980 it was indeed used once every two or three times a year. We’re now using it six times a year."

The direct cost of a breach in the flood defences would exceed 30 billion pounds ($52.70 billion) directly, King added, not including the "indirect" damage to people’s lives.

Scientists predict that heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2), produced by burning fossil fuels, can raise the temperature of the Earth, melt ice caps and cause flooding.

The most recent time that CO2 levels were higher than now was 55 million years ago, when CO2 was more than double current levels and the sea about 100 meters higher, King said.

King saw climate change posing the biggest threat to Britain from changes to rainfall patterns and storm damage to coastlines.