United Nations Development Programme
UNDP Energy & Environment Program
www.undp.bg/focus_areas.php?id=240more...The web site of United Nations Development Programme in Bulgaria provides information on all focus areas of UNDP among which is the Energy and Environment Programme. Activities in this focus area seek to support Bulgaria in meeting its international commitments and thus ensuring global, national and local environmental benefits.
Millennium Development Goal #7 ensures environmental sustainability through integrating sustainable development principles into national policies and programmes; reversing environmental resources loss; and reducing the proportion of people without access to drinking water and proper sewerage infrastructure.
The web site provides access to a searchable database of UNDP projects, fact sheet about Energy and Environment Programme, information about Millennium Development Goals, publications, tenders, news and links.
close.:: ONGOING PROJECTS ::.
Conservation of Globally Important Biodiversity In High Nature Value (HNV) Semi-Natural Grasslands Through Support For the Traditional Local Economy
www.undp.bg/projects.php?id=2305more...The goal of the project is to ensure long-term conservation of the high nature value grasslands of Bulgaria and to mainstream grasslands biodiversity concerns into Bulgaria’s agricultural policy in order to reverse the negative changes caused by unsustainable grazing, abandonment, and land conversion.
To achieve these goals, the project envisages a number of activities like preparation of biodiversity management plans and agri-environment management plans for the pilot sites, assist farmers to access agri – environment payments from NRDP; facilitate marketing of eco-products, awareness raising at local and national level, share lessons learned for replication within EU and UNDP/GEF.
The project will establish an Agri-Environment Policy Unit and a Mobile Advisory Center will be established.
closeDemonstration Renovation of Multi-Family Residential Buildings
www.undp.bg/projects.php?id=1599more...The project seeks to create a viable/working model for the implementation of the National Programme and to demonstrate the renovation of residential blocks and their cartilage, developing in parallel to this the rules and mechanisms for the implementation and management of the NPRRBB. Based on it the MRDPW will prepare the secondary legislation for the programme’s organization.
Project website. (available only in Bulgarian)
closeIntegrating Rio Conventions into the National and Regional Development Policies in Bulgaria
www.rioconventions.orgmore...The project short title is RIO Conventions as it aims to strengthen the Bulgaria’s capacity to integrate the objectives of three UN conventions in regional development policies.
The three Rio Conventions are: UN Convention on Biodiversity (UNCBD), UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
The long-term goal of the project is to embed global environmental concerns into the processes of regional and local development, as well as spatial planning in Bulgaria.
The project is a joint initiative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works (MRDPW) and the Ministry of Environment and Water (MoEW), financed by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF).
closeBuilding the Local Capacity for Promoting Energy Efficiency in Private and Public Buildings
www.eneffect.bgmore...The project is to improve the efficiency of energy use in private and public buildings in Bulgaria.
Its objective is to support market transformation towards energy efficient new building design and retrofit of the existing building stock, and improve the energy efficiency of the energy use of the private and public buildings in Bulgaria by strengthening the institutional framework, raising the awareness and building the capacity of the targeted end user groups. It is implemented by EnEffect and funded by GEF.
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