Kategoria: Week’s highlights

European leaders may have agreed on the EU’s budget and COVID-19 recovery package after marathon talks, but it is not yet a done deal. It…

A temporary basic income for the world’s poorest 2.7 billion people in 132 developing countries could help slow the spread of the coronavirus by allowing…

Doomsayers and hopemongers alike may need to revise their climate predictions after a study that almost rules out the most optimistic forecasts for global heating…

Following the release of a UN study that shows at least 40 million children have missed out on early childhood education due to measures to…

Asylum-seekers infected with coronavirus could be seeping through the porous cease-fire line in the ethnically divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus, the country’s health minister warned…

An independent UN human rights expert is calling for greater scrutiny of emerging digital technologies which she said are being used to uphold racial inequality,…

The number of people in the world could be 2 billion fewer than UN forecasts by 2100, according to a new study. With declining fertility…

The forward march of the renewable energy industry continued through the first half of 2020, defying even the enormous turbulence from the coronavirus crisis, according…

The coronavirus pandemic has caused an ”unprecedented education emergency” with up to 9.7 million children affected by school closures at risk of never going back…

Only six of the 35 largest livestock companies have Scope 3 emissions targets. ‘Big Livestock’ is just as damaging to the planet as the fossil…

The Eurogroup of euro zone finance ministers on Thursday elected Ireland’s Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe as its new chair, a job that will see him…

Annual global temperature is likely to be at least 1°C warmer than pre-industrial levels in each of the coming five years, putting globally agreed climate…

Some economic indicators suggest that Europe’s pandemic-induced recession may be milder than earlier feared, European Central Bank board member Isabel Schnabel told Dutch newspaper NRC…

Volkswagen (VW) is set to remove production lines for all internal combustion engine vehicles from one of its key factories this year, replacing them with…

Today (7 July) the Brussels-based Bureau of International Recycling commented that via its contacts in China, the country’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment has confirmed…

Germany took over the presidency of the EU Council from Wednesday 1 July, with key priorities being climate action, digital sovereignty and Europe’s role in…

Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have published ground-breaking findings on the effects of climate change for…

Today (July 1), the European Commission adopted the decision granting marketing authorisations to the company Janssen, a Johnson & Johnson company, for a vaccine against…

The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on jobs has been much worse than expected initially, the head of the UN labour agency said on Tuesday,…

In R&D labs, the company is now exploring ways to turn pineapple skins and banana leaves into packaging, developing new snacks from misshapen produce that…