Category: Week’s highlights
Corona provided more packaging waste
The waste management industry has also been hit hard by the Corona crisis: Waste volumes and the composition of waste have fluctuated greatly, and waste…
Forests on caffeine: Coffee waste can boost forest recovery
A new study finds that coffee pulp, a waste product of coffee production, can be used to speed up tropical forest recovery on post agricultural…
Turning Wood Into Plastic
Plastics are one of the world’s largest polluters, taking hundreds of years to degrade in nature. Plastics are one of the world’s largest polluters, taking…
Brussels presents plan to boost organic farming
A new plan to boost the production and consumption of organic products, presented Thursday by the EU Commission, aims to reach 25 per cent of…
Paulig’s result in 2020: strong operating profit improvement in an exceptional year
For Paulig, year 2020 will be remembered as a year of ambitious first steps in a new operating model. The company achieved strong sales despite…
Erasmus+: over €28 billion to support mobility and learning for all, across the European Union and beyond
The Commission today adopted the first annual work programme of Erasmus+ 2021-2027. With a budget of €26.2 billion, (compared to €14.7 billion for 2014-2020), complemented…
UN agencies call for urgent action to avert famine risk in 20 ‘hunger hotspots’
Famine is already on the doorstep of millions of families in 20 countries, two UN agencies warned on Tuesday in a report that calls for…
New Study Predicts Urban Development and Greenhouse Gases will Fuel Urban Floods
When rain began falling in northern Georgia on Sept. 15, 2009, little did Atlantans know that they would bear witness to epic flooding throughout the…
Natural disasters occurring three times more often than 50 years ago: new FAO report
New and unprecedented forms of natural disasters are most heavily felt in the agricultural industry, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Thursday….
U.S. Continues to Ship Illegal Plastic Waste to Developing Countries
The majority of the world is working together to reverse the massive plastic pollution problem. But, the world’s leading producer of plastic waste, the U.S.,…
Stanford Study Finds that Wind Energy Output Increases When People Need Heat the Most
In response to the recent freeze-inspired power outages in Texas, some politicians blamed the historic blackouts on wind turbines. In response to the recent freeze-inspired…
Food research strategy for Finland to promote health and sustainability
The time is now ripe for changes in the Finnish food system. VTT, the universities of Helsinki, Turku and Eastern Finland, the Natural Resources Institute…
Statement of the European Commission on the methodology used to determine the allocation of doses of vaccines under the Advance Purchase Agreements
The allocation of doses of vaccines under the Advance Purchase Agreements has followed a transparent process. The Commission agrees with recent statements by several Member…
New report details indigenous struggle for land rights
Although the world’s indigenous peoples live in areas that contain around 80 per cent of the planet’s biodiversity, many still struggle to maintain their legal…
UN Food Waste Index: Nearly 17 Percent is thrown away by Consumers
In the trash instead of on the plate: According to a recent United Nations report, around 931 million tons of food were thrown away worldwide…
Future of Europe: Engaging with citizens to build a more resilient Europe
On Wednesday, EP President Sassoli, Prime Minister of Portugal Costa and Commission President von der Leyen signed the Joint Declaration on the Conference on the…
Europe’s Digital Decade: Commission sets the course towards a digitally empowered Europe by 2030
On Tuesday, the Commission presents a vision, targets and avenues for a successful digital transformation of Europe by 2030. This is also critical to achieve…
Legal wildlife trade needs monitoring to reduce risk of a new pandemic
With three out of four newly emerging infectious human diseases originating in animals, there is an urgent need to monitor the legal trade in wildlife,…
New data on global progress towards ensuring water and sanitation for all by 2030
The UN-Water Integrated Monitoring Initiative for SDG 6 has gathered the latest country, region and world data on all the global indicators for Sustainable Development…
Pay Transparency: Commission proposes measures to ensure equal pay for equal work
The European Commission has today presented a proposal on pay transparency to ensure that women and men in the EU get equal pay for equal…
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