#Environment Commissioner

Cyprus records the highest rate of food waste in the EU, with significant environmental and social consequences, environment commissioner Antonia Theodosiou said on Friday. Addressing the award ceremony for the ...

Environment and animal welfare commissioner Antonia Theodosiou has pointed out persistent issues, including the overpopulation of cats and unowned dogs from uncontrolled breeding, low registration rates, delays in legislation enforcement, ...

Euthanasia cannot be a tool for managing healthy animals, environment and animal welfare commissioner Antonia Theodosiou said on Friday. Commenting on recent posts on social media attributed to Theodosiou, the ...

Drought and climate pressure in Cyprus make water a key issue, Commissioner for the Environment and Animal Welfare, Antonia Theodosiou, said on Saturday evening. She noted that Cyprus is among ...

Environment Commissioner Antonia Theodosiou on Thursday called for a ban on the construction of buildings within 100 metres of the coast. Speaking at a conference organised by the environment department, she ...

Environment commissioner Antonia Theodosiou’s brief has been expanded to include animal welfare, the government announced on Friday. President Nikos Christodoulides had made the decision to coincide with World Animal ...

Environment Commissioner Antonia Theodosiou on Friday put forward a list of suggestions which the town planning authority could utilise to ensure the alleged “illegal house” being built near the Kryos ...

European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius will hold meetings in Cyprus on Monday to discuss key environmental issues. The commissioner will meet Agriculture Minister Maria ...

Environment Commissioner Antonia Theodosiou has suggested that people create more rooftop gardens to help mitigate the effects of urban heat islands caused by concrete cities, which can distort temperature readings ...

Environment Commissioner Antonia Theodosiou on Saturday called for “drastic lifestyle changes” to combat climate change. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), she said “not enough brave efforts are being ...

Businesses must stop engaging in ‘greenwashing’ because it is undermining responsible social and environmental performance, Environment Commissioner Maria Panayiotou said on Tuesday. Speaking at a forum on preventing greenwashing in ...

Volunteer organisations realised the importance of environmental protection much earlier than the state, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. The president was speaking at the launch of the Let’s ...

Environment Commissioner Maria Panayiotou expressed the importance of managing waste and cleanups on Thursday. She was speaking on the eve of the annual cleanup campaign organised by campaign group “Let’...

And that’s aside from the health and building zone concerns When one of only two paper and plastic recycling processing plants burnt down in Geri, Nicosia last week, it ...

The Commissioner for the Environment, Maria Panayiotou, said that the Pedagogical Academy National Forest Park in Nicosia is set to become a model in terms of water management. In a ...

Environment Commissioner Klelia Vassiliou on Wednesday stepped into the fracas over felled trees on Makarios Avenue with a letter to Nicosia municipality asking to be briefed on how the decision ...