Overview of the workshop Dr. Emilijan Mohora Environmental Specialist, IFC Wind Farms and the Environment Regional Workshop, Belgrade, Serbia 27 May ‘15.

Overview of the workshop

Dr. Emilijan Mohora Environmental Specialist, IFC

Wind Farms and the Environment Regional Workshop, Belgrade, Serbia

27 May ‘15

Objectives

• Review of good international practices for conducting : o bird & bat surveys;o collision risk modelling for birds.

• Make participants aware of the need for the cumulative impact assessment (CIA).

• Facilitate discussion of a CIA among the wind energy developers with projects positioned in the South Banat sub – region.

Session 1: Pre-Development Project Risk Assessment

10:20 - 10:30

Robert Adamczyk, Environmental Specialist, EBRD “Summary of EBRD/IFC E&S due diligence requirements”

10:30-11:00Dr. Simon Hulka, Senior Environmental Specialist, Natural Research Projects “Good Practice in bird baselines and Collision Risk Modeling”

11:00-11:30

Alvaro Camina Cardenal, Environmental Specialist, IFC “Good Practice in bat baselines” “Good Practice in post – construction monitoring for birds”

11:30-11:40Goran Sekulic, Advisor, Institute for Nature Conservation of Serbia “Practice of understanding impacts on bird and bats in Serbia”

11:40-11:50Toni Safner, Consultant, UNDP “UNDP Supported analysis of nature protection and WF development in Serbia”

11:50-12:00 Discussion, Questions and Answers

Session 2: What can we learn from developed wind farms

12:15-12:45 Alvaro Camina Cardenal, Environmental Specialist, IFC “Post-construction monitoring: The Strait of Gibraltar (Southern Spain)”

12:45-13:15 Dina Rnjak, Head of Bat Monitoring Group, Geonatura “Bird/Bat monitoring in the preparation, construction & operation of WF Danilo”

13:15-13:35 Zdravko Todorovic, Civil Engineer, Ivicom Holding “Wind farm Krnovo, Montenegro”

13:35-13:50 Milica Sredanović, Investment Officer, IFC “Financing renewable energy projects”

13:50-14:15 Discussion, Questions and Answers

Session 3: Cumulative Impact Assessment

15:00-15:20 Dana Bratu, Senior Consultant, ERM “Wind power development in Romania - Dobrogea Region”

15:20-15:40 Lori Anna Conzo, Senior Environmental Specialist, IFC “Case study: the main steps of a CIA – example from Jordan”

15:40-16:00 Dr. Slobodan Puzović, Province Secretary, Sec. for Urbanism, Constr. & Env. Protect. “South Banat area and wind farm developments”

16:00 – 17:00 PANEL DISCUSSION : Cumulative impact assessment of the wind farm developments in the south Banat region in Serbia

Continental Wind Serbia

WindVision

MK Fintel Wind

NIS Energowind

Electrawinds-K

16:50- 17:15 Discussion and conclusions

Presentations

• are available: https://wbg.box.com/s/5czm63wh276dr6slpond98uwsift8m2x