The last months have seen the return of the long-standing dispute between the supporters of intervention into the natural processes and human management in the Białowieża Forest, and the advocates of extending its protection, arguing that it is a unique forest and an invaluable treasure of nature. We demand maintaining the current restrictions on forest management, and hence we are …

” Today, in the name of over 60 NGOs’, scientists and self-governments we are going to give an appeal letter to the World Bank related to the current „alleged” flood protection programme in Poland… ” Today, in the name of over 60 NGOs’, scientists and self-governments we are going to give an appeal letter to the World Bank related to …

Declaration of the International Coalition „YES to Development – NO to Opencast mines” to prevent building new opencast lignite mines in Europe and to drive European countries transformation from fossil fuels to renewable energy. We, undersigned representatives of associations, social organizations, local governments, civil initiatives and individuals have decided to form the International Coalition „YES to Development – NO to …

Greenpeace Czech Republic has its headquarters in Prague. The international organization has for many years been involved with the subject of coal and climate protection. Greenpeace runs the Energy [R]evolution campaign, among others, showing that the Czech Republic can rival the most developed countries in the world in terms of energy. Using official statistical data and documents from the Czech …

Aliance pro energetickou soběstačnost is an NGO with its headquarters in Brno, bringing together producers of  “green” energy, specialists in the field of efficient energy use, and other interested institutions dealing with RES. The organization aims to transform the Czech energy sector so it becomes independent, clean, and partly local. Their activities focus on education, raising awareness and the promotion …

Frank Bold Society is a civil association, founded in 1995 as a law student volunteer group. Gradually, we became the biggest non-governmental public interest law organization in the Czech Republic, with branches in Poland and Brussels and operations in several other European countries.  We work to solve social and environmental problems and our team of lawyers together with law students …

Both the reports of the Regional Inspectorate for Environmental Protection and Air Protection Program for the Lower Sielsian Province, clearly identify low emissions (emissions from local boiler houses and stoves, mostly detached houses and townhouses) as the main source of these pollutants. Over 95% of benzo[a]pyrene impurities and approximately 70% of particulate matter comes from local furnaces where coal is …

The Ecological Association EKO-UNIA was established in 1994 in Gliwice. The main activity was to build environmental awareness in Silesia and to organize the annual Summer School of Young Ecologists. In 2001, after the election of the new authorities of the Association, the headquarters of the EKO-UNIA moved to Wrocław. Since that time, the main area of interest of the …

 Radosław Gawlik (Prezes) rgawlik@eko.wroc.pl Born in 1957in Wroclaw, married, three children, vegetarian. He graduated in 1981 at the Faculty of Operations and Economics of the Transport in the Academy of Transport and Communications in Zilina, Slovakia. In the 80s he taught mathematics in Wroclaw schools. Because of activities in the opposition movement his contract wasn’t renewed. Periodically, he worked as …