21 February 2019 21.02.2019 - The CEO of AMMK, Dr. Sc. Ilir Morina is participating in the 32nd plenary conference of the EPA Network being held in Oslo, Norway. The purpose of this meeting is the exchange of experiences on environmental issues of interest to Europe, as well as the continuation of important environmental discussions from the agenda and activities of the European Commission and the European Environment Agency (EEA), in which among the keynote speakers in the opening session were Daniel Calleja Crespo from the EC Department of Environment and Hans Bruyninckx from the EEA.
Some of the main topics being addressed within the framework of the special thematic sessions of the meeting are: the use of technologies in monitoring and reporting on the environmental situation, the current potential for utilizing technologies in favor of improving the state of the environment, and the transformation of data from the Copernicus Program into products and information usable by the public.
In this meeting, special attention is also being paid to environmental management at the local level. Some of the topics being addressed in this context are: the reduction of CO2 emissions at the local level, supporting and guiding municipalities in drafting programs for adaptation to climate change, and promoting the heating of buildings in environmentally friendly forms and ways.
An important part of the meeting agenda is also the presentation of activities carried out within the framework of the interest groups operating under the EPA, such as the Climate Change and Adaptation group, the Genetically Modified Organisms group, and the Plastics and Environment group. In this meeting, the new interest group "Green Budget" was also formed.