Climate Action Network Europe (CAN Europe)

08/06/2026

🦩 The people of Albania are in the streets, and CAN Europe stands with them.

For days, thousands of citizens have gathered to defend the Vjosa Narta Protected Landscape, one of the last intact coastal wetlands in the entire Mediterranean. Flamingos, monk seals, loggerhead turtles: this place is irreplaceable, and people know it.

What is happening at Vjosa Narta goes beyond one wetland:
It is about the right of citizens to have a say in what happens to the nature around them.

CAN Europe is proud to stand alongside Albanian civil society in this fight.

Read our statement 👉 https://caneurope.org/news/can-europe-statement-we-stand-with-the-people-of-albania-and-the-vjosa-narta-wetland/


REC Albania

For days, thousands of people have taken to the streets of Tirana and beyond to oppose the destruction of one of the Mediterranean's last intact coastal

28/04/2026

🌱 The Just Transition Young Voices Awards are back! Help shape the transition in Southeast and Eastern Europe by sharing your story.

We are excited to announce the second edition of the Just Transition Young Voices Awards, organised by the Energy Community Secretariat in cooperation with CEE Bankwatch Network, Balkan Green Energy News, Climate Action Network-International, and the Regional Cooperation Council - RCC.

🎥 This year, applicants are invited to submit a video answering: “What a Just Energy Transition Means to You and Your Community” with the aim of raising awareness and deepening understanding of Just Transition topics in your community.

Young people (18–30) from across the Energy Community can participate in the contest individually or in teams of two.

📌Submit your video in one of two categories:

• Creativity for Impact (30s–3 min)

• Storytelling for Impact (3–5 min)

🌍 Eligible countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova.

🏆 What’s in it for participants? Winners will join and present at the international Just Transition Forum in Montenegro this October, get capacity-building opportunities, and gain regional media visibility through partner platforms.

📅 Don’t miss:

Online Information Session – 19 May 2026, 16:00

Deadline – 10 August 2026

👉 Find all details and register for the information session: https://bit.ly/4ew0zhM

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27/04/2026

47 civil society organisations have today called on Western Balkan governments to resist pressure from the United States and cancel plans to build new gas pipelines and power plants.

📢In a joint statement, we warn that far from merely replacing Russian gas, the plans would either massively increase the region’s gas consumption and its dependence on imported fossil fuels, or end up as stranded assets.

For several years, the United States has been pushing projects like the Greece to North Macedonia interconnector, liquid gas (LNG) terminals in Montenegro and Albania, and the southern gas interconnection between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

❗Compared to the EU, the Western Balkan countries have low or no gas dependence. In 2024, gas comprised 20% of available energy in the EU, while in the Western Balkan countries it was:

✅Serbia – 14%
✅North Macedonia – 12%
✅Bosnia and Herzegovina – 3%
✅Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo – not connected to international gas infrastructure.

We’re calling on Western Balkan governments to capitalise on this advantage instead of entrapping their countries in costly import dependence.

Read more in our joint statement: https://bankwatch.org/press_release/ahead-of-dubrovnik-3si-summit-47-civil-society-organisations-warn-against-western-balkan-gas-addiction

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