The health costs caused by air pollution in Bucharest are the biggest in Europe and reach approximately 3,000 euro/person,that is why Low Emission Zones (LEZ) must be implemented by 2025 to improve air quality, say 2Celsius experts in a specialized analysis. "The health costs caused by air pollution in Bucharest are the highest in Europe, about €3,000. At the same time, the European Environment Agency announces that air pollution remains the main environmental risk to the health of Europeans and estimates that at least 253,000 deaths in the EU in 2021 can be attributed to exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) above the WHO recommended concentration of 5 micrograms per cubic meter", the source cited. According to a research, made by 2Celsius and Ecopolis in 2023, through which the level of NO2 was monitored from 21 locations in Bucharest, exceedances of the legal limit values were recorded at six points. NO2 is a gas resulting from road traffic, industrial activities and power generation and, in high amounts, affects human health, causing in particular respiratory diseases.In this sense, the environmental organisation presented a proposal for the implementation of such areas in the Report on waste burnings and other materials valuable in Bucuresti and Ilfov, made by Ecopolis and AerLive in 2021.‘In such areas, the use of transport means which are less polluting, such as electric cars, bikes or ecological public transport, applying taxes and restrictions for conventional motor vehicles which meet the standards for emissions already established. The implementation of the low emissions zones means a seris of administrative and technical measures, including the installation of adequate signals, the monitoring of emissions levels and implementation of sanctions for breaking regulations’ consider the representatives of the association.The 2Celsius Association is a non-governmental organization established in 2010 with the aim to influence climate change policies at national and European level.
London’s New Bond Street has been crowned the world’s priciest retail destination for the first time, while Bucharest’s Calea Victoriei is in 39th place globally, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s latest Main Streets Across the World report. Rents in Calea Victoriei recorded the 3rd highest growth among the 50 analysed markets worldwide. Calea Victoriei, the […]
The European Commission announced earlier this week that it has selected four electrification projects developed by Romanian companies to receive funding of EUR 29.33 million from the Connecting Europe Facility fund. The CEF funding round involves a total of over EUR 600 million in EU grants, which will support...
Romania has won the international competition for a judge position at the UN Dispute Tribunal (or UNDT), with judge Adina Elvira-Ghiţă set to take over a seven-year term, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE). Romania secured 109 votes in the UN General Assembly during the international competition for filling a judge position at […]
The Defense Ministry said early Wednesday, November 19, that its Air Force detected a drone entering national airspace overnight, prompting the scramble of German and Romanian fighter jets amid ongoing Russian attacks near Romania’s border with Ukraine. Two German Eurofighter Typhoon jets stationed at the Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base took off at 00:25 on November […]
The government will radically amend the legislation on foreign labour and repeal the current law, said Ciprian Văcaru, state secretary at the Ministry of Labour, Family, Youth and Social Solidarity (MMFTSS), as reported by Economedia.ro...
The Romanian government is preparing an emergency ordinance to ban salary-pension cumulation in the public sector, according to the document consulted by Economedia.ro. The draft ordinance includes other measures to reduce spending in public administration, such as suspending secondments and transfers. The...
