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Transforming Agriculture and Energy AI has already begun to reshape key sectors such as agriculture and renewable energy besides urban sustainability and policy and governance, where significant progress can be made toward achieving sustainability goals: AI’s contributions to these sectors demonstrate its ability to make systems more efficient, scalable, and adaptable, potentially offering a powerful […]

From the outcome of the recent Czech parliamentary elections to the implementation of ETS2 or the effective communication of climate action, participants had the chance to exchange views and deepen partnerships —following the title of the keynote speech— amid and despite political shifts in Central Europe.  Czechia and Slovakia: Fighting Climate Change, Advancing European integration  […]

From 15th to 16th October 2025, the Dubrovnik Ministerial Meeting on the Green Agenda brought together governments, donors, and regional organisations at a pivotal time – five years after the Agenda’s launch. From your perspective, how has the regional approach evolved since 2020, and what key priorities are shaping this new phase of implementation? Since […]

EUKI is now based within in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety  (BMUKN). From 2022 to 2025, it operated under the Ministry for Economic Affairs. Environment Minister Carsten Schneider welcomed the return of national, European and international climate policy from the Economic Affairs Ministry and Federal Foreign Office […]

The event will provide a platform for assessing how EUKI project partners – and civil society in particular – can continue to drive climate action. Participants will discuss ways to enhance the impact of climate projects, strengthen cross-border cooperation and promote renewable energy and climate initiatives at the national, regional and European levels — even […]

The EUKI Networking Event in Sarajevo brought together more than 40 climate actors from across the Western Balkans. Why was this regional exchange so timely? In 2023, we had the EUKI Western Balkans conference in Tirana, so now was a great time to see what has changed since then. Over the past two years, there […]

Five years after the Green Agenda for the Western Balkans was launched, the Sarajevo meeting came at a pivotal moment. While strong climate ambitions have been set, implementation faces structural, financial, and political challenges. Shrinking civic spaces, energy dependencies, and new EU regulations are reshaping how governments and local actors operate. The event offered a […]

Every year since 2018, five journalists from Eastern Europe spent six to eight weeks at German media outlets, while five German journalists set out in the opposite direction. These talented staff writers, investigative reporters, freelancers and other journalists of all ages were united by the mission to work as temporary foreign correspondents for their home […]

In the Western Balkans, climate action is facing increasingly difficult conditions. Climate scepticism is on the rise. The closure of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) threatens the existence of many non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the region, depriving them of a vital source of funding. Many of them see spaces for civil society shrinking […]

The good news from the Eurostat reports “Key Figures on Europe” and “Key Figures on the EU in the World” is that in 2023, greenhouse gas emissions in the EU were reduced by 36.3% compared to 1990 levels. In Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovakia, emissions more than halved. The bad news: This is […]