Category: News

Breaching of the Kachov Dam through the eyes of Copernicus

On the night of 5 to 6 June, an explosion ruptured the dam of the Kakhovka dam on the Dnieper River in southern Ukraine. Data from the Copernicus Sentinel family of satellites allow us to monitor the scale of the huge environmental disaster in the Kherson region. The map output shows the Normalized Difference Water …

Meeting of the best MA21 implementers

Last week, at the invitation of Environment Minister Petr Hladík, top representatives and coordinators of Local Agenda 21 from the most successful municipalities, towns and districts met. The meeting was attended by the top category A holders Chrudim, Jihlava and Prague 14, and category B holders Kopřivnice, Prague 10, Prague 12, Velké Meziříčí, Rožnov pod …

Introducing the next holder of the eco-label – Czech family company Zenit spol. s r.o., Čáslav

The second part of our series about the holders of the eco-label certificate is a purely Czech family company operating in the field of household and cleaning chemistry, Zenit spol. s r. o. Čáslav. We talked to Alexandra Sokačová, who now heads the marketing of this successful Czech company, about why they decided to get …

Introducing the holder of the Ecologically friendly service certificate Ekocentrum Dotek

We are starting a series in which we will gradually introduce the current holders of the Ecolabels. We start with (so far) the only Czech eco-centre that has confirmed the environmental friendliness of its accommodation services with an official certification. We interviewed Martina James, the head of operations at Ekocentrum Dotek, which is one of …

We signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Technical University of Ostrava

On 18 May 2023, Miroslav Havránek, Director of CENIA, and Václav Snášel, Rector of the Mining University – Technical University of Ostrava, signed a cooperation agreement. The possibilities for cooperation between the two organisations are mainly in the areas of research, environmental data, electromobility, contamination and old environmental burdens and technical environmental protection. The experience …