With good and bad moments, the year 2017 is coming to an end and the time is now inopportune to sum up. On this occasion, IPN gathered good thoughts, this time only good ones, from those who take decisions and from those for whom decisions are taken. What good things did 2007 bring? This is the question that we put to those who accepted to be near us in our wish to find what’s good in the things around us and in the events that mark us. Even if many times things do not go as we want, it is the man and society that stand to gain as they can see an additional opportunity to become involved and change things to be better even in problems and worse things. For each of the raised subjects, we provide a number of rankings that show the position of those that compiled them. Below you can see the accomplishments of 2017 in the Transnistrian settlement process. Below you can see what good things 2017 brought in the environmental sector.
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Rankings by Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment
1. There was adopted the law on waste.
“The law is a legal framework adjusted to the European waste management principles and standards. It contains provisions on the use, reuse, recycling and elimination of waste, authorization, control and monitoring of waste management activities, import regime, transportation abroad and export. It allows managing particular categories of waste, including used oil waste, batteries and accumulators, electrical and electronic equipment, unused and packed vehicles, medical waste, persistent organic pollutants, ferrous and nonferrous metals, used tires, etc. The law provides that the producers are obliged to: accept the returned products, including waste that remains after the use of these products; organize a system for collecting and returning these products through the agency of shopping centers, municipal waste collection points or individual or collective systems set up by themselves.”
2. There was chosen the body that will regulate the public water supply and sewerage service, will license water and sewer operators and will work out the regulations needed to improve the people’s access to high-quality services. This is the National Agency for Energy Regulation.
3. There was carried out a feasibility study to extend the Chisinau-Straseni-Calarasi water pipeline within the Project “Improvement of Water Infrastructure in Central Moldova”, which is supported by KfW.
4. With the support of the development partners, there were or are conducted feasibility studies to create waste management infrastructure in eight waste management regions all over the country.
5. In 2016-2017, there were restored 577.7 ha of wooded strips near agricultural fields. The area of protected farmland was extended to about 12,000 ha.
“The rehabilitation of the given wooded strips will have a beneficial influence on the conterminous farmland. Trees were panted on 790 ha of degraded land, in accordance with the plan for extending forest vegetation areas for 2014-2018.”
Rankings by Ecologist Movement of Moldova:
1. Citizens mobilized around the problem of the Nistru River, protested and signed appeals to give up building hydropower plants on the Nistru. Later Ukraine ratified the agreement of cooperation on the protection of the Nistru.
2. Government approved amendments to the Law on Internal Naval Transport and banned the sale of sand and gravel extracted from the Nistru and Prut Rivers. These are to be adopted by Parliament.
3. It has been 30 years of the first ecological expedition on the Nistru. A series of 12 memoires were published in the magazine “Natura”.
4. The first Biosphere Reserve “Lower Pruit” was created on the Prut.
5. The regulation of the landscape protection was reincluded in the agenda.
Rankings by Association of Environment and Ecological Tourism Journalists of Moldova:
1. The environmental theme continued to be covered by the national press, with journalists showing an increased interest in events related to the environment.
“The editorial content includes more subjects about the environment and not only about catastrophes and disasters, but also about success stories, eco-businesses, life stories of enthusiasts who devote themselves to this area. Moreover, the environmental investigations became more attractive to the media.
2. There was held the first practical environmental journalism school and the magazine “Natura” celebrated 27 years of the foundation.
3. The April snowfalls reminded how important nature is and how it can play tricks on us. These snowfalls mobilized society and community and many showed civic activism. The Environment Day was celebrated in “Valea Morilor” Park in Chisinau with the involvement of environmental civil society and with support from UNDP.
4. Climate change was topical throughout the year. Moldova ratified the Paris Agreement on May 4, 2017. The Association of Environment and Ecological Tourism Journalists of Moldova carried out an awareness-raising campaign centering on the impact of climate change in agriculture, water resources and financial resources.
Other articles of the series “What good things did 2017 bring in...”:
Ce a adus bun anul 2017 în procesul de reglementare transnistreană. Campanie IPN
Ce a adus bun anul 2017 în domeniul educației. Campanie IPN
Ce a adus bun anul 2017 în domeniul turismului. Campanie IPN