Kardzhali

Stara Zagora

Kyustendil

Targovishte

Lovech

Haskovo

Montana

Shumen

Pazardzhik

Yambol

Pernik

Pleven

Blagoevgrad

Plovdiv

Burgas

Razgrad

Varna

Ruse

Veliko Tarnovo

Silistra

Vidin

Sliven

Vratsa

Smolyan

Gabrovo

Sofia (stolitsa)

Dobrich

Sofia

Bulgaria

10% reduction in emissions from non-ETS plants, 21% reduction from ETS plants by 2020 compared with 2005

50% reduction energy intensity of GDP (456 tonnes/year) by 2020 against a 2005 baseline

Increase forest area by afforestation of abandoned agricultural land, bare and deforested areas, eroded and endangered by erosion. Indicator: 1.4

31.12.2011 total area 4 148 114 ha, wooded area: 3 774 778 ha 31.12.2010 Total stock: 644 840 247 m3 Total stock: 202 million tons  by 2020

16% share of renewable energy in the gross final consumption of the country after 2020.

16% final energy consumption from renewables by 2020

35% reduction in GHG (from Biofuel/biomass use) in the short term, then by 50% in 2017, and by 60%  in 2018 compared with a business as usual scenario

On 19th April 2025 Association “Za Zemiata (For the Earth) files a complaint with the European Commission alleging serious gaps in the final version of Bulgaria's National Plan on Energy and Climate Plan, which was uploaded on the EC website on 15 January 2025 without a public consultation. The complaint urges the EC to open an infringement procedure against Bulgaria until the EU requirements to end fossil fuel subsidies and direct funds to energy efficiency and renewable energy, as well as concrete measures against energy poverty and full public involvement in decision-making are fulfilled. Within 12 months, the Commission must examine the complaint and decide whether to initiate proceedings.

A poster for Lufthansa, seen in June 2022, featured an image of the front of a plane in flight. The underside of the plane was represented by an image of the earth from space. The ad included text which stated, “LUFTHANSA GROUP. CONNECTING THE WORLD. PROTECTING ITS FUTURE. #MakeChangeFly”.
The Advertising Standards Authority (“ASA”) challenged whether the ad gave a misleading impression of Lufthansa’s environmental impact.
By ruling of March 1, 2023, the ASA upheld that challenge.
The CAP Code required that absolute environmental claims be supported by a high level of substantiation.
The claim “PROTECTING ITS FUTURE” was likely to be interpreted by consumers as an environmental reference to how Lufthansa's approach to aviation was protecting the future of the world. Further, it was likely to be understood to mean Lufthansa had already taken significant mitigating steps to ensure that the net environmental impact of their business was not harmful.
However air travel produced high levels of both CO2 and non-CO2 emissions, which were making a substantial contribution to climate change. Many of the initiatives Lufthansa said they were committed to delivering were targeted to deliver results only years or decades into the future. There were currently no environmental initiatives or commercially viable technologies in the aviation industry which would substantiate the absolute green claim “PROTECTING ITS FUTURE”, as consumers would interpret it.
The basis of the claim had therefore not been made clear and it had not been adequately substantiated, meaning the ad breached the Code.
The ASA told Lufthansa to ensure that the basis of future environmental claims was made clear and did not give a misleading impression of the impact caused by travelling with the airline, and that robust substantiation was held to support future claims

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