Pollution (BRUSSELS) – Switzerland will become the first country to successfully link its greenhouse gas emissions trading system with the European Union emissions trading system (EU ETS) on 1 January…
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Further reducing use of pesticides, more funds for research and better monitoring are urgently needed to save the EU’s bees, according to…
Image by Jerzy Gorecki from Pixabay (BRUSSELS) – EU institutions provisionally agreed requirements for water reuse in farming Tuesday, setting out minimum water quality requirements for the safe reuse of…
Photo dexmac (COPENHAGEN) – A change of direction is urgently needed if Europe is to face climate challenges of ‘unprecedented scale and urgency’, the EU environment agency said in its…
Photo Mariaisen STRASBOURG) – The EU must commit to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 at an upcoming UN Conference, the European Parliament said Thursday as it approved a resolution…
Image by Kolossos (BRUSSELS) – The EU should commit to net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050 at the UN Conference and step up its emissions’ reduction ambition for 2030, the European…
Photo Petr Kratochvil (COPENHAGEN) – The EU cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 2% in 2018, according to preliminary estimates from the European Environment Agency, but progress on renewables is…
Forest fire Greece (BRUSSELS) – Wildfires destroyed nearly 178,000 hectares of forests and land in Europe last year, the EU Commission reported Thursday in its Annual Report on Forest Fires…
EC (BRUSSELS) – Ahead of a 16-17 December Fisheries Council meeting, the European Commission on Thursday adopted its proposal for fishing opportunities in 2020…
Photo Pexels (STRASBOURG) – The European Parliament sent an EU regulation to protect bees from harmful pesticides back to the drawing board Wednesday, when MEPs blocked a move by EU…
