The European Climate Pact: empowering citizens to shape a greener Europe
The European Commission today launched the European Climate Pact, an EU-wide initiative inviting peo...
Read more...Boosting Offshore Renewable Energy for a Climate Neutral Europe
This ambitious growth will be based on the vast potential across all of Europe's sea basins and on t...
Read more...Green Deal: Good for a climate-neutral Europe - bad for the planet?
Europe is to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050 -- this goal of the "Green Deal" was...
Read more...Green Deal: Commission adopts new Chemicals Strategy towards a toxic-free environment
Chemicals Strategy fully recognises the fundamental role of chemicals for human well-being and for t...
Read more...State of the Energy Union: Progress made on the clean energy transition and a basis for green recovery
Individual assessments of the 27 National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) analyse the pathway and a...
Read more...Reducing greenhouse gas emissions: Commission adopts EU Methane Strategy as part of European Green Deal
This strategy sets out measures to cut methane emissions in Europe and internationally. It presents
Read more...The oceans are absorbing more carbon than previously thought
The oceans cover over 70% of the Earth’s surface and play a crucial role in taking up CO2 from the a...
Read more...Untapped potential exists for blending hydropower, floating solar panels
Hybrid systems of floating solar panels and hydropower plants may hold the technical potential to pr...
Read more...Emissions could add 15 inches to 2100 sea level rise
An international effort that brought together more than 60 ice, ocean and atmosphere scientists from...
Read more...How much will polar ice sheets add to sea level rise?
Over 99% of terrestrial ice is bound up in the ice sheets covering Antarctic and Greenland. Even par...
Read more...European Green Deal Call: €1 billion investment to boost the green and digital transition
The European Commission has decided today to launch a €1 billion call for research and innovation pr...
Read more...State of the Union: Commission raises climate ambition and proposes 55% cut in emissions by 2030
The Commission has today: tabled an amendment to the proposed European Climate Law, to include th...
Read more...Slovenia, Greece among top investors in environmental R&D, OECD report finds
A report from the OECD on worldwide post-COVID green recovery finds Poland invests over 8 per cent o...
Read more...JRC assesses critical raw materials for Europe’s green and digital future
Today, the JRC publishes the results of assessments of selected raw materials, with factsheets and r...
Read more...Can sunlight convert emissions into useful materials?
Shaama Sharada calls carbon dioxide -- the worst offender of global warming -- a very stable, "very
Read more...Greece accelerates green energy push despite pandemic downturn
As the world was focusing on the easing of lockdown restrictions across the West in May, Greece cros...
Read more...Europe losing forest to harvesting at alarming rate, data suggests
Europe has lost a vastly increased area of forest to harvesting in recent years, data suggests, redu...
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