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NO# 5 (DECEMBER 2011) Subscribe at: www.ks.undp.org

IN THIS ISSUE Dear Reader,

NEWS FROM As we approach the end of this year we hereby present this year’s final Environmental Newsletter.
KOSOVO We hope that we have been successful in extending your knowledge on issues concerning environ-
ment protection through our informative Newsletter, and we reassure you that we will continue in
• From trash to art the same spirit in the year to come. This issue will provide you selected topics and information re-
lated to environmental activities covering whole Kosovo. Once again, we would like to take this
• Mountaineering and
opportunity to thank all of those who contributed making the publication of the Environmental
Ecotourism
Newsletter possible through providing and sharing their ideas on relevant topics. We wish to con-
• Conference on tinue this successful cooperation in the coming year, with even more strength, commitment and
industrial waste activities in protecting and improving the environment.
management for
Trepca complex Editorial Team

• New cave
discovered in FROM TRASH TO ART
Malisheva
Efficient waste management or lack of it - is environment protection. For his unique style
WORLD NEWS one of the biggest environmental issues in Kos- and contributions for the protection of the envi-
ovo. Currently, the largest amount of waste ronment through the art of garbage, Skënder
• Sustainability and goes to landfills, and only a small part is being Boshnjaku has been awarded the certificate of
Equity keys for better re-used or re-cycled. However, there are vari- gratitude “Honored Ambassador of the Environ-
future ous initiatives, in particular initiated by private ment” by Bells Environmental Movement.
businesses to sort and re-cycle waste and to
• New World Atlas
presents the effects of re-use it. Such efforts equally include individual
global warming initiatives to raise public awareness in order to
improve minimize our waste loads.

One of these individuals is artist Skënder

Boshnjaku. In addition to his career as a neuro-
psychiatrist, he has been holding visual exhibi-
tions since 1974. He is focused on urban art,
graffiti and heraldic. The special feature of his
art involves a collection of artworks titled
Eco&Garbage. Art, which is made using waste
to create artistic work. Apart from the fact that
his works are very original and rare, such
works also bear the message how artists can
contribute to raise public awareness about

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SI MUND TЁTNDIHMONI
AL Ё MBROJTJEN E MJEDISIT!
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EN As part of the efforts to promote mountain ERA strives to satisfy the delicate balance be-
tourism, the Center for Sustainable Mountain tween the growth of Ecotourism and the obser-
Education (CSME) was recently opened in the vance of good practices that will ensure the
Photo by Peja.
city of ERA The Center is located in Haxhi sustainability of the environment we are explor-
Zeka’s Mill, a cultural and historical monu- ing. In their environmental education programs
ment. The main goal of the Center is to pro- - both formal and informal– ERA spreads perti-
R mote natural and cultural heritage of Rrafshi i nent knowledge about principles such as “Pack
E WS LETTE Dukagjinit. Sustainable nature tourism has In Pack Out'“ and “Leave No Trace”.
N R
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NEWS great potentiality in Kosovo, believes Fa-
tos Lajçi from Environmental NGO ERA. ERA’s initiative is a good example for invest-
FAST FACTS ments for nature tourism. Fatos Lajçi would
like to see also more institutional support for
◊ 21 caves of natural the development and promotion of sustainable
FAST FACTS
value have been tourism. The Municipality of Peja has already
founded in Kosovo. welcomed the initiative. The purpose is to use
Currently, only 7 are the natural potential of the Municipality of Peja
•protected by law. to develop mountain tourism and integrate the
local community in its development.

•◊ Kosovo Environ- www.eradirect.org

mental Agency has
identified 110 con- Photo by ERA
•taminated sites (hot
spots), considered to ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION PROMOTES FAIR JOBS
be sensitive environ-
•
mental sites, with
Municipality of Kaçanik is cleaning polluted This initiative shows, how in its best environ-
further 28 potential
environmental hot- river beds and removing waste from illegal mental protection can promote stronger soci-
•
spots founded in the dumpsites with the support of World Bank and ety. Labor intense “green jobs” can help unem-
territory of Kosovo. Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare. The ployment situation by creating new job oppor-
activity brings not only good news for the envi- tunities especially for the people lacking an en-
• ronment but also helps people in difficult un- try point to the job markets.
◊ The largest amount employment situations. In addition to improv-
of pesticides in Kos-
ing the environmental state of the municipal-
•ovo is used in the agri- Family with Mini Hydro Power Plant Produces Electricity
ity, the project generates employment and
culture sector, about
89%, in the farming reduces poverty. The project has strong social
and 3.5% in the vet- commitment, 70 % of the employees were
erinary sector, 3.3% in hired based on the criteria of unemployment
the municipal hygiene and difficult social situation.
sector and around 3%
in the food industry . Neredime riverbed section that flows through
the city of Kaçanik has now been cleaned, and
the work continues cleaning the rest of the
riverbed and removing illegal landfills in the
city.

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Trepça Mining & Metallurgical Complex was

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SUSTAINABILITY AND EQUITY KEYS FOR A BETTER FUTURE

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M
I RON Following the global launch of the Human De- environmental trends jeopardize also Kosovo’s
ENV velopment Report 2011 in Copenhagen, UNDP future. The debate raised a number of concerns
Kosovo organized a roundtable with the par- related to sustainability and equity on the
ticipation of ministries, UN Agencies in Kosovo, current environmental state in Kosovo, but also
international and local stakeholders and civil
ideas and suggestions on how to best address
society representatives on the launch of the
Human Development Report (HDR) in Pristina. them in order to prevent
N E W catastrophic
S L E T T E scenarios
R D A T E
R of the year 2050 captured in the report.
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NEWS UNDP Kosovo emphasized the relevance of The message of the report states that 1, 7 billion
Human development Report’s message about people who are under poverty line do not only
sustainability which is not exclusively an envi- suffer from the economical poverty but are
ronmental issue but a question of social jus- under double burden, suffering environmental
tice. Shpetim Rudi, Deputy Minister of
degradation directly. The report looks at the new
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global development financing and environmental
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anyone who might benefit from
World Atlas had crease of the world population, which in October
newsletter at least quarterly so
This newsletter is pub- to erase 15% of the ice from the globe’s largest 2011 amarked
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lished in cooperation island: Greenland. An area as large as Britain the least developed countries, and in particular
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purchasing a prod- customers or employees will Asia.
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tial Planning (MESP) manent layer of ice has been melted away
and the United Nations You can compile a mailing list
during the past 12 years.
Development Program from business reply cards, cus-
The Atlas also has a new island near the shores
tomer information sheets, busi-
(UNDP) in Kosovo. of Greenland, called “warm island”, which until
ness cards collected at trade
recently was not shown in the maps because
shows, or membership lists. You
of the ice coverage. Several other environ-
Editorial Team: might consider purchasing a mail-
mental changes appear on the world map,
Afrim Berisha (MESP), including the detachment of the Wilkins ice-
Seco nd ary St ory Headli ne

Abedin Azizi (UNDP), berg mass in Antarctic and the crumbling of

Inari Penttilä (UNDP) the frozen bridge connecting it with Charcot
and Burbuqe Dobranja islands.
(UNDP). The new Atlas shows the areas which are most
endangered by the increase of the sea level,
including the Pacific islands and archipelagos,
islands in the Indian Ocean and shores of Af-
rica, India, South-Eastern Asia and Mexico

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