Even though the COP25 in Madrid ended in inaction, the parallel Social Summit revealed that the streets are more alive than ever, argues Samuel Martín-Sosa. The bitter taste left behind by the failure of the UN Climate Change Conference ...
The European Commission has released its plan for a Green Deal just 10 days after taking office, describing it as “Europe’s ‘man on the moon’ moment”. Yesterday’s announcement was the first major policy ...
Waste prevention is set to be one of the top priorities for the European Commission in the next four years. The European Commission may have realised that prevention is better than a cure and that recycling is no longer enough. The ...
A European Commission evaluation has concluded that the European Union’s flagship water legislation is fit for purpose. However, implementation and enforcement must be scaled up to protect Europe’s precious rivers and waterways, the ...
“Zero pollution” and “toxic-free environment” pledges overcame industry opposition to become last minute additions to the European Green Deal, announced this afternoon. Ursula von der Leyen promised a zero pollution goal in ...
An innovative model makes one thing clear: we can either embark on a managed and fair transition to a post-growth economy or face a tumultuous future of ecological and economic collapse, argues Nick Meynen. The job of system modellers boils down to ...
A wish list of chemical industry demands has been identified in the EU’s flagship environmental policy manifesto, the European Green Deal, set to be announced this week. Manmade toxic chemicals are linked to ...
Public authorities are failing to provide citizens with information on environmental matters across the EU, a new report finds. Today, META gathers some tips to help citizens and NGOs access this information. Information is knowledge and knowledge ...
With nearly 100 countries on board, an international agreement which bans the exporting of toxic waste from developed to developing countries has entered into force. While this landmark move will help protect the environment and ensure that poor ...
The most recent call by the UN to phase out mercury-added products by 2020 is poised to give lawmakers and a handful of powerful companies a headache. This week, Mauro Anastasio looks into the long-standing battle to ban fluorescent lamps in the EU. ...
As the European Commission finalises its much-anticipated Green Deal, the EU’s own environment agency has decried economic growth as incompatible with tackling the environmental and climate emergency. Widely viewed as the EU’s response ...
As a devastating European Environment Agency report takes the EU to task for its dismal failure to protect the ecosystem, it is high time for Europe to abandon its fixation on endless economic growth, experts at a post-growth event in Helsinki ...
Despite the hopes attached to renewable energy, a rapid transition to green technologies, coupled with continued economic growth, could lead to severe energy and mineral shortages, as well as conflict and environmental damage. Nevertheless, these ...
An overwhelming majority of 429 MEPs has voted in favour of declaring a climate emergency in Europe. 225 voted against and 19 abstained. The European Parliament has declared a state of environmental and climate emergency today, following a vote by ...
This week European air quality experts are meeting in Bratislava for the European Commission’s second Clean Air Forum. While air quality in Europe is slowly improving, 90% of people living in urban areas in the EU are breathing illegal levels ...
The EU`s top court has today upheld strict protection rules set out in the EU Habitats Directive which national authorities should follow in order to stop the capture and killing of endangered species in the wild. The case was referred to the EU ...
This week 156 countries convened for the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on mercury — yet at the same time a new UN report [1] shows mercury mining has skyrocketed in the last 5 years. Much of ...
The European Environmental Bureau (EEB) says that store brands of European supermarkets have built up decisive market power and that they need to use that power to change global supply chains for the good. The EEB is the largest European ...
The EEB welcomes today`s announcement that the European Commission will pursue infringement proceedings against France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK for having failed to protect their citizens’ health against dangerous levels of air ...
Over 800,000 new jobs could be created across the EU if MEPs in the European Parliament’s Environment Committee vote for both an ambitious recycling target and to strongly support the refurbishing and reusing sectors on Tuesday (24 January), ...