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EU Urged to Support Stronger Limits on POPs in Waste

EU Urged to Support Stronger Limits on POPs in Waste

IPEN, Arnika, and 16 European NGOs call on leaders to lower threshold values for POPs in waste, which enter recycling and waste exports.

Transparent pollution in Indonesia as an accelerator to achieve sustainable development goals

Transparent pollution in Indonesia as an accelerator to achieve sustainable development goals

Nexus3 Foundation and Arnika Association organized their first workshop on transparent environmental pollution and data in Indonesia, covering its urgency, benefits, the role of...

Heavy metal content also confirmed in the Akhtala and Alaverdi communities

Heavy metal content also confirmed in the Akhtala and Alaverdi communities

Publishing the results of studies carried out by the Czech organization for chemical safety Arnika together with organizations from Armenia - the NGO Center for community...

Moldovan environment lacks protection and citizens power to defend it, new report reveals

Moldovan environment lacks protection and citizens power to defend it, new report reveals

Moldovans do not have sufficient access to environmental information and their right to participate in decision-making is often restricted. The responsibilities of the state...

Regions hold the key to cleaner air in Ukraine: Oblast strategies are being prepared right now

Regions hold the key to cleaner air in Ukraine: Oblast strategies are being prepared right now

Across Europe, the number of deaths caused by air pollution has steadily declined in recent decades. And yet air pollution levels, especially in cities, are still dangerously...

The results of the analysis of samples from the Shnogh and Teghut communities confirm the presence of heavy metals in the environment

The results of the analysis of samples from the Shnogh and Teghut communities confirm the presence of heavy metals in the environment

The Czech Chemical Safety Organization "Arnika," together with organizations from Armenia - the NGO "Center for Community Mobilization and Support" and information NGO "EcoLur,"...

Alaverdi pollution issues presented at international symposium in Tianjin, China

Alaverdi pollution issues presented at international symposium in Tianjin, China

The problem of dioxin contamination in Alaverdi Town, Lori Region, was presented on November 11th at the 41st International Symposium on Halogenated Persistent Organic...

Arnika supported environmental activists in cleaning the Dniester River bank in Transnistria

Arnika supported environmental activists in cleaning the Dniester River bank in Transnistria

Within its environmental project financed chiefly by the Transition Programme of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Arnika supported environmental activists of the NGO...

NGOs call for a ban on imports of plastic and electronic waste

NGOs call for a ban on imports of plastic and electronic waste

Even though Thailand already has enough of its own waste, imports of plastic and electronic waste are a severe problem Thailand has been facing in the last years - mainly after...

Belarus should stop persecuting environmental activists, UNECE countries insist

Belarus should stop persecuting environmental activists, UNECE countries insist

Belarus has been persecuting environmental activists and should stop this violation of international law. The Seventh Meeting of the Parties (1) to the Aarhus Convention (2)...

Clean Air for Ukraine team visited industrial cities and presented a unique collocation experiment

Clean Air for Ukraine team visited industrial cities and presented a unique collocation experiment

In September, a delegation of experts from Czech environmental NGO Arnika, dealing with industrial air pollution and from 2018 implementation of the Clean Air for Ukraine...

The space for civil society is furtherly shrinking: Too many states do not respect the environmental democracy principles

The space for civil society is furtherly shrinking: Too many states do not respect the environmental democracy principles

A substantial number of countries are failing to adhere to the agreed provisions of the International Aarhus Convention on environmental democracy (1). While the post-Soviet and...