A new EU Directive revising rules for surface and groundwaters entered into force Monday, seen as an important step to make the EU more water-resilient and reduce water pollution.
The European Commission has published a report on the simplification of the revised EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) with a set of further measures for its implementation which include exemption for leather imports.
Despite growing recognition that biodiversity loss poses a systemic risk to the economy and financial stability, France’s biggest companies remain largely unprepared to manage their impacts and risks on nature, according to a new WWF report.
E3G are looking for a Senior Policy Advisor to support their Clean Economy Programme in driving their strategy around industrial decarbonisation and the Emission Trade System (ETS) in Europe.
Today, the European Parliament’s Budget committee supported dedicated funding for the LIFE programme in its position on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) interim report, but in breaking with established practice, failed to endorse strong spending targets for climate and biodiversity.
No Patents on Seeds! have published a representative survey conducted in five EU member states, i.e. France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland. The results clearly show that around 80 percent of EU citizens reject the idea of granting patents on living organisms, e.g. patents on plants or animals.
The EU Taxonomy, Europe’s classification system for green activities, is in danger of being weakened, following the Commission’s new criteria review proposal. Several proposed changes miss the target of making the criteria easier and instead open the door to watering some of them down.
