Cyprus

The next step in the process involves referring the Member State to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), where potential fines may be imposed

CRC press at Boca Raton, Florida , USA, by Taylor & Francis Group

We are living in the ‘plasticene’ era. Marine plastic pollution is a global problem, and increasing effort and funds are being invested towards identifying and implementing solutions.

A report by Ecologic Institute and Climact shows that the draft National Energy and Climate Plans presented by governments at the start of 2019 are in acute need of improvement. They suffer from inadequate targets and insufficient details on the policies and financing needed to move towards net-zero emission economies in Europe. Member States also need to do better in involving their national stakeholders in providing input to the plans, to benefit from their expertise and to get them on board for future policies. Good practice examples exist around the EU to serve as inspiration for the final plans due by the end of the year.

Used cooking oil (UCO), or waste cooking oil as it is also called, is edible oil of vegetable or animal origin that has been used to cook food to a point where it is no longer fit for that purpose. It is, however, estimated that at least 16.54 million tons (Mt) of UCO are produced every year among the largest producing countries and regions, i.e., China, Malaysia, the United States of America, Europe, Taiwan, Canada, and Japan [1].

Cyprus is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean whose economy is largely dependent on coastal tourism. It boasts some of the cleanest waters in Europe and has the largest number of Blue Flag awarded beaches per capita in the world.

The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) is the European Commission's flagship initiative for the protection of the European Seas, and the first holistic approach to ensuring that European Seas reach and are maintained at what is called a ‘Good Environmental Status’ by the year 2020.

This Study to assess the implementation by EU Member States of certain provisions of Directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste, carried out for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment (DG Environment), investigates the situation in the 28 Member States of the European Union (EU) as regards the landfilling of untreated non-hazardous municipal solid waste.

The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) is an important milestone for the preservation of the European marine environment.

The annual per capita production of waste in Cyprus is estimated at 468 Kg for residential areas and 670 Kg for tourist areas, while the total waste is estimated at the end of 2012 up to 630000t according to the official statistics. The Waste Prevention Strategy for Cyprus suggests that local authorities and policy makers should now put more emphasis on waste prevention and re-use, in order to achieve a reduction of disposal costs, CO₂ emissions and a decrease in the demand for natural resources.

18 Member States are at risk of missing one or both of the 2025 targets.

Over the last few years, global energy demand has risen, and this trend is expected to continue. Almost all European Union (EU) countries are suffering from a shortage of energy services. Annually, EU fossil fuel energy production falls; for example, in 2014, gas production fell by 11.2% compared to 2013. Energy imports, especially natural gas, have increased as a result of lower energy output. The EU is still heavily reliant on fossil fuel imports (oil and gas), and the cost of EU energy imports in 2017 increased by 26% (€266 billion).

During the last decade the waste management landscape in European Union (EU) Member States (MS) is being reconstructed to a lesser or greater extent, due to the pressures exercised by the EU policy and legislation. This “reconstruction” is quite radical in MS that did not already have in place complex material and resource recovery systems by the mid 1990s. The European Landfill Directive (LD -1999/31/EC) is placed among the most influential documents, as it sets increasingly demanding diversion targets for the biodegradable fraction (BMW) of municipal solid wastes (MSW) and requires from MS to adopt policies together with administrative and economic tools for the diversion of the biodegradable fraction of municipal waste. Further Author: K. Heilakis - Harokopio University, Department of Home Economics and Ecology, GR

Presentation shown at the WTERT Bi-Annual Meeting 2010 in New York City

This study focuses on the techno-economical analysis of new tendencies in Cypriot Agriculture. The aim of the study is to analyze the primary data that were collected from the producers as well as to create techno-economical data, which are useful for the evaluation of the investments and for the determination of the Agricultural Policy by the responsible institutions.