Embassy of France in Serbia and CEDEF Conference

Air pollution: the contribution of local communities in fight against climate change

21 March 2016.

Embassy of France in Serbia and CEDEF Conference

HE Kristin Moro, Ambassador of France in Serbia and prof. dr Ana B. Bovan, CEDEF President opened the conference.

With the help of expertise, owned by the French and Serbian, this gathering has indicated the crucial role of municipalities in the process of defining integrated strategies with local and civil society actors in order to combat air pollution and mitigate global warming.

Within the French Presidency over the Conference of the Parties on Climate Change, Embassy of France and CEDEF continue to strongly support Serbia in fulfillment of the commitments under the Paris Agreement, adopted on the 12th of December last year.

Through the joint work on the tight connection that exists between the occurrence of air pollution and climate change, which represent a real challenge at the local level, this meeting has enabled easier exchange of the experiences and examples of best practice in the fight against the climate change. During this event the solutions were presented, with special emphasis on the mechanism introduced in France in order to prevent air pollution at the local level: Regional Climate-Air-Energy Plan.

Speakers at the seminar were: Guy Berge, President of Agency Air Lorraine and Sebastien Douche from the city Metz. Dejan Lekic and Tihomir Popović from Serbian Environmental Protection Agency, Vlatka Matkovic Puljic from the Health and Environment Alliance, prof. dr Maja Nikolić from Public Health Institute Niš, Miodrag Grujić from the Secretariat for Environmental Protection of the City of Belgrade, Slobodan Misanovic from Public Transport Company.

Photo gallery of the event can be seen here.

Presentations of speakers can be seen here.

Official invitation you can download here.

Conference Programme