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No nature restoration law without revised genetic modification rules, says EPP

Member states reach agreement on industrial emissions portal

LEAK: Council draft preserves headline nature restoration target, with provisos

Commission stresses co-existence in response to wolf backlash

LEAK: Sweden endorses making polluters pay for wastewater treatment

Member states grow impatient with French obstruction of RED deal

LEAK: Sweden proposes watering down key part of pesticides law

EU Green Week overshadowed by opposition to Nature Restoration Law

MEP compromise dilutes nature restoration target

Global plastics pact takes step forward

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Outgoing EEA director on ten years at the helm and why the Green Deal must not be derailed

When Hans Bruyninckx took up the post of executive director of the European Environment Agency on this day in 2013, the EU looked set to miss its collective greenhouse gas reduction target. It didn’t, as it turned out, but it took some creative accounting and a pandemic for all of the 28 members to meet their 2020 targets for renewable energy and energy efficiency. Meanwhile, Europe’s biodiversity was – and still is – on a seemingly inexorable downward path.

Analysis: How the pandemic has – or hasn’t – changed green policies

01 Jun 2023 by Claudia Delpero
In early May the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Covid-19 emergency concluded, ending three years of social distancing, economic shutdown and travel restrictions.

Case study: How an EU-funded project cut CO2 emissions in vehicle manufacturing processes

01 Jun 2023 by Michael Donnelly
This EU-backed project aimed to create new manufacturing systems for metal composites used in transport systems and also reduce CO2 emissions

How France’s railways are emblematic of the urgent need to adapt infrastructure across Europe to extreme heat

26 May 2023 by Juliette Laffont
With prolonged periods of high temperatures the new normal in much of northern Europe, countries are facing huge adaptation costs. As just one example, Juliette Laffont takes a look at how France – which is backing rail travel as a more climate-friendly way to travel – is struggling to keep its rail network up and running in an already changing climate

‘Absolutely political’: EFSA scientist on new bee guidance thresholds

25 May 2023 by Christian Ernhede
Csaba Szentes, from the ecotoxicology team at the European Food Safety Authority, talks to ENDS Europe about the long-awaited update to the agency’s bee guidance document that was unveiled earlier this month.

ECHA’s new director on reform of EU chemicals regulations

12 May 2023 by Robert Hodgson
ENDS Europe speaks to Sharon McGuinness, the new executive director of the European Chemicals Agency, about what the new commitment to tackle environmental and health threats from PFAS, endocrine disruptors and other chemicals means for policymakers and the Helsinki-based agency itself.

Case Study: How an EU-funded project helped to reintroduce vulture species in Bulgaria

11 May 2023 by Laura Cole
An EU LIFE-backed project is reintroducing black vultures to Bulgaria via a cross-border network of conservation groups, after the birds were declared locally extinct almost 40 years ago. Here’s how they did it and what lessons it offers large species reintroduction.

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France obstructs approval of RED agreement

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Conservatives withdraw from talks on nature restoration

Outgoing EEA director on ten years at the helm and why the Green Deal must not be derailed




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