The bioeconomy may be a relative unknown when it comes to environmental policy, but its significance and impact could not be greater. Read on to find out everything you need to know about why the bioeconomy is so important to Europe’s future. What is the bioeconomy? The bioeconomy is all about utilising renewable biological resources …
The Commission is collecting input on 2 key initiatives: the EU Electrification Action Plan and the EU Heating and Cooling Strategy. Interested parties and citizens are invited to contribute to the call for evidence and open public consultation on the EU Electrification Action Plan and to the call for evidence and open public consultation on the EU Heating …
The European Commission has launched a call for evidence and a public consultation to seek input on the scope and content of its Strategic roadmap on digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI) of the energy sector. The Strategic roadmap, which was mandated by President Ursula von der Leyen in Commissioner Dan Jørgensen’s mission letter and later announced in the Affordable …
The Commission launched a public consultation and the Call for Evidence for the upcoming Circular Economy Act. It marks a significant step in the impact assessment process, which will enable the Commission to gather input from a wide range of stakeholders and the broader public, thereby better understanding the bottlenecks and opportunities for the wider deployment …
The EU Ecolabel Stakeholder Representation call for tender has been published on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal. The general objective of the call for tender is to ensure the representation of three specific categories of stakeholders in the EU Ecolabel implementation, specifically: Stakeholder representation: SMEs (Lot 1) Stakeholder representation: Consumers (Lot 2) Stakeholder representation: Environment (Lot 3). Tasks cover …
The Commission published the fourth Environmental Implementation Review. It supports environmental enforcement and raises awareness about the importance of EU environmental rules to ensure prosperity, competitiveness and environmental security in the European Union. The costs of non-implementation of EU environmental laws through air and water pollution, nature degradation and waste are estimated at €180 billion per …
The study found it to be relevant, coherent, proportionate, in line with the subsidiarity principle, and consistent with other EU initiatives. The Commission published an evaluation of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive. EU legislation on WEEE management has been in place for over 20 years, setting minimum requirements for collection and proper treatment …
The European Commission launched a ‘Roadmap towards Nature Credits’, to incentivise private investments into actions that protect and preserve nature, and reward those who undertake these actions and invest in them. Nature credits represent an investment into nature-positive actions by a company, a financial institution, a public entity or a citizen, which in return can benefit from …
The EEA report ‘Renewables, electrification and flexibility — for a competitive EU energy system transformation by 2030’ finds that the European Union has already demonstrated its ability to shift away from fossil fuels, with electricity-sector CO2 emissions dropping significantly over recent decades. In comparison, progress in decarbonising heating and transport, where gas and oil consumption dominate, is …
The Commission welcomes the new Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCR) for apparel and footwear. These rules introduce a science-based and impartial method to assess the environmental impact of clothing and shoes across their entire lifecycle, from raw material extraction, production and logistics to use and end-of-life. Developed over five years with input from industry, NGOs, national …