The Green Tank is one of the ten project partners of ARTEMIS which is aimed at accelerating the restoration of Posidonia seagrass meadows and exploring their ecosystem services in the Mediterranean.
The review titled “Energy Communities & Self-production in Greece and its Lignite Areas” by The Green Tank presents the more recent developments based on the data by the General Commercial Register (GEMI) and the Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator (HEDNO) up to December 2023
Twenty environmental organizations in Greece ask the Greek Minister of Environment to vote “against” the change in wolf’s protection status.
Analysis by The Green Tank and Facets examines 8 scenarios for the residential housing sector and 2 scenarios for the road transport sector and identifies the most efficient combinations of measures that will reduce both the carbon footprint and energy bills of households by 2030. The implementation of these measures can lead up to €1.6 billion annual economic benefits in 2030 for the Greek households, while also reducing emissions from both sectors by up to 7.1 million tonnes of CO2
The Green Tank for the support of the programs for SMEs and large enterprises in the lignite regions
The Green Tank voted positively on four new actions to strengthen entrepreneurship in the lignite regions of the country that were specialized by the Administrative Authority of the Just Development Transition Program, submitting also comments and recommendations
Mini documentary for the just transition and youth engagement in Greece’s lignite regions through the EU ETS produced in the framework of the Life ETX project and the Human Stories campaign in a collaboration between The Green Tank and Carbon Market Watch.
At the initiative of Electra Energy Cooperative and EKPOIZO, 16 Energy Communities and Civil Society Organizations, including The Green Tank, sent a joint letter to the Minister of Environment and Energy and RAEWW, highlighting two key issues for the further development of the institution of energy communities.
The sixth newsletter of the Green Tank for the developments of the last six months (July – December 2023) related to the Just Transition of lignite regions in Greece and in Europe has been published.
The co-signatory 19 Environmental Organizations express our complete opposition to the proposal announced today by the European Commission to degrade the wolf’s protection status under the Bern Convention and we call on the Greek government to proceed to its rejection during the Council of Environment Ministers that will be held.
Almost 300 Civil Society Organisations, including The Green Tank and 24 other organisations from Greece, address an open letter to President of European Committee about the proposal to amend the wolf protection regime in Europe.