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