Environment

The Delegation Headed by the Kingdom of Sweden is in Armenia

The official website of the Ministry of Environment informs that today Deputy Minister of Environment Irina Ghaplanyan received the delegation headed by Johanes Olielundi, Director General for International Development Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden. The aim of the meeting was to discuss the perspectives of development in the sphere of environment.

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Eat Local Food and Protect Your Body and the Environment

One of the key components of eating sustainably is eating locally-grown food that is considered in-season. World Economic Forum represents the reasons for eating local food. One of them is distance. When you eat locally, you are cutting back on the necessity of more resources. Eating locally also supports your local economy in a meaningful way.

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Separated Waste Bins are Mapped

Recycling.am has been created in the framework of “Green Initiatives” public awareness campaign as part of the UNDP-GEF and RA Ministry of Nature Protection project called “Creating Global Environmental Benefits Through Raising Stakeholder Environmental Education and Awareness”. For the first time in Armenia Recycling.am has tried to map the separated waste bins, recycling organizations and

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Workshop for Organizations Owning Polychlorinated Biphenyls

The official website of the Ministry of Environment of Armenia informs that a training workshop for organizations owning PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) on accounting, sampling and labeling of PCB-containing oils and equipment took place, under “Regional Demonstration Project for Coordinated Management of ODS and POPs Disposal in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Armenia” jointly implemented by the

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Up to 170 Cubic Meters Water Intake from Lake Sevan

Infocom.am informs that with its first reading National Assembly adopted draft law on banning additional water intake over 170 Million Cubic meters. The author of the draft law is Varazdat Karapetyan, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Territorial Administration, Local Self-Government, Agriculture and Environment. Karapetyan highlighted that the lake cannot merely be considered as a

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The ZCMC Tailing Pipe Flows through Voghji River

Hetq reports that the Voghji River in Syunik province is gray from yesterday morning. The reason was the accident at the tailing dump of Zangezur Copper and Molybdenum Combine in Nerkin Giratagh settlement, which resulted in dumping of the tailings into the river. The head of “Sustainable Development” NGO of Kapan Armen Parsadanyan explains that

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Uniforms for \”Hayantar\” SNCO

The official Facebook page of \”Hayantar\” SNCO informs that from now on their employees will wear uniforms. The uniforms of forestry workers were distributed at the “Hrazdan Forestry” branch of “Hayantar” SNCO. Deputy Minister of Environment Vardan Melikyan noted that the forest worker should have the necessary equipment and technical means to be able to

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