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- A Safer, more Competitive and Responsible EU - WWF calls for a European Sustainability Pact ahead of EU elections
- WWF has urged for election candidates and future EU leaders to put people's wellbeing in a thriving environment at the centre of their thinking as they shape ... — last modified 25 October 2018, 13:31 CET — filed under: Environment, European Parliament — Relevance: 1%
- Climate: EU Commission steps up, but fails to clarify numbers
- European Commission President Von der Leyen today announced an increase to the 2030 climate target, to 'at least 55%' emissions reductions. While this is a ... — last modified 16 September 2020, 18:34 CET — filed under: Environment — Relevance: 1%
- Feeling Hot? Bad Water Management Aggravating Drought, says New WWF Paper
- With temperatures across Europe set to skyrocket this week and national governments taking emergency measures to tackle drought, a new paper from WWF signals ... — last modified 22 July 2019, 21:29 CET — filed under: Environment — Relevance: 1%
- Forest fire emergency demands ambitious EU action now
- Global fire alerts as of April 2020 are already up 13% compared to 2019 - which was a record year for fires - a new WWF report finds. — last modified 27 August 2020, 23:57 CET — filed under: Environment — Relevance: 1%
- Member States to European Parliament: Europe needs a Nature Restoration Law now!
- EU countries, which will be in charge of implementing the Nature Restoration Law, come out in favour of the law and send a strong signal to the opposition in ... — last modified 20 June 2023, 23:51 CET — filed under: Environment — Relevance: 1%
- Spanish plan to legalise water-guzzling strawberry farms threatens Donana nature reserve
- Donana in Spain is one of Europe's most iconic natural reserves and is home to an amazing variety of plants and animals, including the endangered Iberian lynx. — last modified 22 January 2022, 22:15 CET — filed under: Environment, Agriculture, Spain — Relevance: 1%
- Parliamentary resolution places nature at the core of good ocean governance, but omits impacts of domestic fisheries
- In response to the European Commission communication on the global ocean agenda, the European Parliament has adopted its resolution on strengthening ocean ... — last modified 08 October 2022, 23:42 CET — filed under: Environment, Fisheries — Relevance: 1%
- European Parliament votes to keep Adriatic Sea the world's most overfished and unsustainable region
- Today, the European Parliament missed its opportunity to help fish populations in the Adriatic Sea recover from critical overfishing and thus failed to ensure ... — last modified 13 November 2018, 15:43 CET — filed under: Environment, Fisheries — Relevance: 1%
- EU Forest Strategy hampered by shortsighted interests
- The new strategy was intended to chart a more sustainable path for the management of EU forests, but pressure from some Member States and industry puts ... — last modified 20 July 2021, 00:14 CET — filed under: Environment — Relevance: 1%
- EU co-legislators take significant step to tackle environmental crime
- After six months of negotiations, EU co-legislators finalised the elements of the revised EU Environmental Crime Directive (ECD), which strengthens and ... — last modified 16 November 2023, 21:55 CET — filed under: Environment, Crime — Relevance: 1%
- EU water law will NOT be changed, confirms European Commission
- In a landmark day for Europe's rivers, lakes and wetlands, the European Commission has announced that the EU's strong water legislation - the EU Water ... — last modified 22 June 2020, 23:57 CET — filed under: Environment — Relevance: 1%
- World Wetlands Day 2021: The Living Danube Partnership Bringing Wetlands Back to Life in Garla Mare
- Up to 87% of global wetlands have been lost in the past 300 years, 1/3 of those just since 1970. — last modified 02 February 2021, 17:12 CET — filed under: Environment — Relevance: 1%
- MEPs want large companies to stop harming the planet and people
- Today, MEPs at the European Parliament's Committee on Environment (ENVI) took an important step toward more business accountability as they voted for making it ... — last modified 09 February 2023, 21:57 CET — filed under: Environment, Single Market, Finance — Relevance: 1%
- MEPs fail to endorse fossil-free recovery but agree damage control
- Yesterday, Economic Affairs and Budgets Committee MEPs voted on the biggest EU recovery fund. In a blow for the climate, they did not explicitly exclude fossil ... — last modified 10 November 2020, 18:28 CET — filed under: Environment, European Parliament — Relevance: 1%
- EU opens way to net zero greenhouse gas emissions
- EU decision-makers agreed to aim for a net zero emissions economy "as soon as possible" in the early hours of this morning. — last modified 21 June 2018, 00:03 CET — filed under: Environment, Energy — Relevance: 1%
- Western Mediterranean Sea heading for further decline after disastrous vote in Parliament committee
- Today, the European Parliament has taken a first but much too small step to tackle the challenge of overfishing in the Mediterranean Sea, the most ... — last modified 10 January 2019, 16:40 CET — filed under: Fisheries, Mediterranean — Relevance: 1%
- Record submissions to public consultation urge EU to act on deforestation
- A landmark 1,193,652 submissions to the EU's public consultation on deforestation were handed over to the European Commission this afternoon, all of which ... — last modified 14 December 2020, 18:24 CET — filed under: Environment — Relevance: 1%
- WWF briefing urges EU to secure an equal place for women in the offshore wind energy transition
- The shift to a clean energy system should affirm the social values we want for our future society, including the fundamental human right of gender equality. As ... — last modified 18 September 2023, 18:06 CET — filed under: Environment, Women, Employment, Social — Relevance: 1%
- More than 1 million barriers destroying Europe's rivers, new research shows
- Europe's rivers are congested with more than 1 million barriers, new research has found. — last modified 30 June 2020, 00:32 CET — filed under: Environment — Relevance: 1%
- 62 coal region mayors unite for sustainable future
- Mayors from Europe's coal regions affirmed their commitment to a sustainable future supported by the EU's Just Transition Fund at an event with EU Commission ... — last modified 24 September 2020, 17:22 CET — filed under: Environment, Energy — Relevance: 1%
- Listing Act deal: A twofold win for investors & the environment
- Following extensive negotiations, the Listing Act trilogues concluded on 2 February, reaching a deal that contains specific wins for sustainable finance and ... — last modified 06 February 2024, 00:41 CET — filed under: Environment, Finance — Relevance: 1%
- The time for reflection is up! Concrete action now needed to meet SDGs
- Today, the European Commission published its long-awaited reflection paper "Towards a Sustainable Europe by 2030", which outlines its strategy for delivering ... — last modified 30 January 2019, 17:34 CET — filed under: Environment — Relevance: 1%
- Ukraine needs a sustainable, climate and nature-positive reconstruction: New WWF/BCG report
- "Ukraine: a sustainable economic recovery for people and nature" - makes the case why post-war reconstruction of Ukraine must be climate- and nature-positive, ... — last modified 22 September 2022, 18:40 CET — filed under: Environment, Ukraine — Relevance: 1%
- Weak EU climate deal snubs the science
- Early today EU leaders reached a disappointing deal on the bloc’s 2030 climate target. — last modified 11 December 2020, 14:15 CET — filed under: Environment — Relevance: 1%
- Half of plant and animal species at risk from climate change
- Up to half of plant and animal species in the world’s most naturally rich areas, such as the Amazon, the Arctic and the Galapagos - and in Europe, the ... — last modified 16 March 2018, 11:22 CET — filed under: Environment — Relevance: 1%
- Commission undermines standards for corporate sustainability reporting under industry pressure
- The European Commission published today a Delegated Act on the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) that puts a significant dent into the hope ... — last modified 01 August 2023, 01:05 CET — filed under: Environment, SMEs, Finance — Relevance: 1%
- MEPs massively back European Central Bank climate role
- Today the European Parliament voted in plenary in favour of the European Central Bank (ECB) taking climate action. — last modified 12 February 2020, 21:54 CET — filed under: Environment, Finance — Relevance: 1%
- EU opens door to climate-neutral industry
- The EU's new industrial strategy, published today, is an important step on the road to climate-neutrality, making a clear link to the need to decarbonise ... — last modified 10 March 2021, 00:14 CET — filed under: Environment, Single Market — Relevance: 1%
- Experts: nuclear, gas and some bioenergy not sustainable under EU taxonomy
- The EU’s finance sector will take strides for the climate if the European Commission follows just-published expert advice. — last modified 09 March 2020, 23:52 CET — filed under: Environment, Finance — Relevance: 1%
- Biggest dam removal in European history
- In a historic moment for Europe's rivers, the first breach was made today in the 36 metre high Vezins Dam - kick-starting the biggest dam removal in Europe so ... — last modified 12 June 2019, 18:28 CET — filed under: Environment — Relevance: 1%