Full Coverage: Europe

30.04.2006 London Sustainability Weeks (4-18 June) celebrate local projects that help make the city a cleaner, greener, healthier place. The campaign, timed to concide with World Environment Day (5 June), includes large outdoor festivals, pond dipping, nature walks, bike rides, business breakfasts and fair trade stalls.

29.04.2006 from Dvorak Uncensored blog:
A new windfarm, south of Glasgow, will produce enough electricity to power 200,000 homes. But what about the NIMBYs?

28.04.2006 London's long-term average rainfall is lower than that of Istanbul, Dallas, or Nairobi, yet residents use more water than anyone else in Europe - 165 litres per person per day compared to 120 litres in other European cities such as Copenhagen and Berlin. Learn more about the issues on an evening Thames cruise on 11 May. The event will also see the launch of the "Ripple Effect", an online action campaign to encourage Londoners to do more about water conservation.

28.04.2006 COPENHAGEN, Apr 28 (IPS) - Before anyone can clean up the earth and its atmosphere, an administrative clean-up might be necessary in the house of those tasked with the cleaning job, a leading environmentalist says.

28.04.2006 Mary Kayitesi Blewitt lost almost her entire family in the Rwandan genocide and subsequently set up a fund for the 365,000 survivors who continue against the odds, haunted by memories and under threat from perpetrators now released from prison. To accompany the production of The Overwhelming at the National Theatre in London, on 27 June she will discuss the work of the charity and the continuing effect of the atrocities.

28.04.2006 While Creative Commons has entered, is practiced and regulated in the other countries in the region and the world - in Kosovo its application still depends on individuals' desire to push it forward.

28.04.2006 The Croatian Law on Copyright and Associated Rights was adopted in 2003, and is harmonized with the majority of international treaties in that area, as well as with EU directions and recommendations. This was confirmed through the screening of legislation in the area of intellectual property rights and copyrights, conducted under the auspices of negotiations on Croatian membership in the EU, in February of this year. The only objection on this Law refers primarily to the inefficient implementation.

28.04.2006 The copyrights in Albania are protected by law and is statutory in article 58 of the Albanian Constitution. On the other hand, Albania is signatory of a series of international conventions and treaties (the Bern, Rome, Geneva, Paris conventions) and member of OMPI (Organisation Mondiale de la Propriété Intellectuelle) as well.

28.04.2006 The Metamorphosis Foundation for Sustainable ICT Solutions signed, on April 26, 2006, a Memorandum of Understanding with Creative Commons Corporation, for legal porting of CC licenses in Macedonia.

28.04.2006 Sweden is to push for European Union support for a UN moratorium on high seas bottom trawling, Environment Minister Lena Sommestad announced.

28.04.2006 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development should demand effective environmental protection measures for oil spills from Shell or decline funding for its Sakhalin project in Russia's Far East, says a leading environmental group.

28.04.2006 The peace activist Caravan entitled Objection for Peace, organized by the Regional Network of initiatives for Conscientious Objection (CO) in Southeast Europe is starting its journey through the cities of the region on Tuesday, May the 2nd and will travel until the 15th of May 2006. The Caravan will begin in Skopje and then continue through cities of Prishtina, Belgrade, Novi Sad, Osijek, Banja Luka, Sarajevo, Mostar, Šibenik, ending in Zagreb.

28.04.2006 I'm not a Tory but if the Party were to embrace Contraction and Convergence internationally and carbon rationing domestically, I would happily tear up my Green Party card and come aboard the Cameron bandwagon, says Mark Lynas.

28.04.2006 All the major political parties say climate change is the biggest threat we face. They all have ambitious targets for cutting the main cause of it - carbon dioxide gas. Yet emissions of carbon dioxide keep on rising. Ask your MP to support a new law to cut carbon dioxide every year by 3% from now on.
*The Big Ask campaign

28.04.2006 Research by motor insurer MORE TH>N reveals that motorists would be willing to switch to greener hybrid cars, provided the right incentives were provided.

27.04.2006 The UK parliament’s International Development Committee has blamed the EU and Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson for the current crisis at the World Trade Organisation, in a new report published today.

27.04.2006 A leading UK development group today welcomed MPs' criticism of Britain's presidency of the EU on trade issues and called for the collapse of talks at the World Trade Organisation.
* British MPs accuse Mandelson of causing WTO crisis
* Oxfam report warns poor countries against agreeing bad trade deal

27.04.2006 The Mission to Serbia and Montenegro of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Council of Europe (CoE) Office in Belgrade express their concern about certain provisions of the recently adopted Serbian Law on Churches and Religious Communities which appear to be inconsistent with standards set by the two organizations, in particular the European Convention on Human Rights, ratified by Serbia and Montenegro in 2004.

27.04.2006 from Carmelo Ruiz's bilingual blog:
"It is not enough to think of technological solution or substitute one source of energy for another, but instead we need to think of new sustainable decentralized and just societies," concludes Carmelo Ruiz (scroll down the page for this article).

27.04.2006 Zelena Istra warned yesterday that the General Urban Plan for Istria Districts includes plans for construction of no less than 23 golf courses, which are used as an excuse for further urbanization and “apartment-ization” of undeveloped sections of nature and coastal land.