As part of efforts to reduce the impact of pollution, a permit for greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) was handed over to Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport by the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Environmental Protection. This is the first such permit issued by the Ministry of Environmental Protection to a company, which lays the foundation for further steps in the regulation of GHG emissions in the industrial sector of Serbia.
The minister pointed out that issuing GHG permits is a key step towards establishing an efficient system for monitoring, reporting and verifying these emissions. The initiative is aimed at the long-term reduction of emissions from industrial plants and the acceleration of the decarbonization of the economy, which is in line with the Green Agenda, according to the website of the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
It was emphasized that Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla Airport was the first to go through the entire procedure and successfully obtain a permit, and the goal is to issue more than 100 such permits by the end of the year. Serbia thus becomes one of the first countries in the Western Balkans to implement a GHG monitoring system in accordance with the Law on Climate Change and accompanying regulations.
The new e-GHG platform enables submission of requests and accompanying documentation online, which facilitates communication between operators and the Ministry and speeds up the process of issuing permits.
In addition, the Climate Adaptation Program was recently adopted, and a digital climate atlas was developed, which will be a useful tool in planning adequate adaptation measures.
Such projects and initiatives are concrete steps that Serbia is taking in order to face the problem of pollution, in this case of industrial plants and similar companies, striving towards the goals of reducing GHG emissions by 33 percent by 2030 compared to the 1990 level.
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Source: energetskiportal.rs
