In a bid to cast the upcoming EU space law in a favourable light, Commission officials pitched it as a competitiveness driver for the continent's industry during the European Space Forum in Brussels.
Drawing on our unique global membership, we at ACCA call on newly elected Members of the European Parliament to champion sustainability, ethical AI, and talent development. These priorities are crucial for shaping a sustainable, competitive, and future-ready Europe.
The FIA European Bureau presents a comprehensive Manifesto for the future of mobility, addressing critical challenges and outlining pathways to accessible, sustainable, and safe transportation for all Europeans.
The INITIATE project proposes an innovative process to produce urea from residual gases of steel making and demonstrates the importance of industrial symbiosis between different industrial sectors (steel sector, chemical sector, agriculture).
As Europe gears up for the forthcoming European Parliament elections, the European Biosolutions Coalition calls upon the EP candidates to make biosolutions a priority – they are nature’s own tools to enhance Europe’s sustainability, resilience, and competitiveness.
Hundreds of civil society organisations decried the recent reversal of EU sustainability policies for the bloc’s agrifood sector in an open letter published on May 13.
The EU is a significant player in the global leather market, with a diverse range of products and industrial processes within its leather industry, but how are Europe's tanneries improving safety while focusing on sustainability?
A European space law would bring benefits that would ripple outside EU borders, Rodrigo da Costa, executive director at the EU Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) said in an interview with Euractiv.
Generic medicines extend life-saving treatments to European patients. Neglecting their broader societal value risks hindering care and healthcare system sustainability. In the study Beneath the Surface, we urge policymakers to adapt frameworks to support these medicines and boost access.
CO2SMOS, VIVALDI and CATCO2NVERS are EU-funded projects exploring ways to replace fossil-based carbon in chemicals with carbon emitted by installations processing biomass. Their recommendations? EU regulations must ensure that sustainable carbon is recognised as the easier, cheaper and necessary alternative.
Following the adoption of the latest revision of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED III), the European Commission is ramping up its work on a critical tool for the renewable fuels industries: The Union Database (UDB).
After a year-long discussions, the EU Parliament and the Council of the EU reached their negotiating positions on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation. SBFE shares its take on the likely outcome of reuse and refill obligations, as well as suggestions for enhancing recyclability.
Ahead of the Environment Council seeking a General Approach on Packaging and Packaging Waste, The Brewers of Europe call on decision makers to level the playing field and ensure all alcoholic beverage sectors play by the same rules.
2014 was the year, when as European Commissioner for Environment, I have introduced the circular economy in the European policy space. It was not a new concept, or unknown to science, but it was new to policy makers. Today, in less than 10 years, the concept is well known and broadly accepted globally.
Ahead of the plenary vote on the proposed Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), a large group of European and national associations across various sectors are expressing serious concerns regarding the approach to reuse adopted by the European Parliament’s Environment Committee (ENVI) on October 24.
Auctions have always been a friend to clean technology, with the cost of wind and solar projects in Europe dropping substantially over two decades thanks to bidding schemes that incentivise developers to ask for lower and lower levels of subsidies. It is clear that this same mechanism will help reduce green hydrogen prices.
In the pursuit of a more sustainable future, we, the European natural mineral waters and soft drinks industries are enhancing our packaging material efficiency, investing in lightweighting solutions and recyclability, and setting up efficient collection and recycling systems, such as Deposit and Return Systems (DRS).
What if the products we know and use every day, such as packaging, textiles, cleaning products and cosmetics, could be more sustainable and help reduce pollution? Knowing that almost everything around us is made of carbon gives us the chance to look for more sustaible sources to substitute fossil carbons, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Apart from its potential to meet domestic demand, CPK has the potential to become a transport hub for the CEE countries playing an important role in boosting the connectivity and economic development in this part of Europe.
EPR has been widely recognized and celebrated as being an effective way of making producers responsible for products (and their subsequent waste) they produce. On the one hand, based on a partnership between companies, municipalities and waste managers, it allows the financing of the public service of waste management by producers, while reinforcing its efficiency. On the other hand, it could generally encourage companies to enter a circular economy logic in the design of their products thanks to instruments like eco-modulation, thereby favoring products with a smaller environmental footprint.
EU Specialty Food Ingredients emphasises that even with the current European Commission not proposing a Framework for Sustainable Food Systems, the food industry continues on its path towards building more sustainable and resilient food systems.
The Spanish presidency circulated three discussion papers on Friday (13 October) to gather EU countries' feedback on key aspects of the AI law ahead of an upcoming negotiation session: fundamental rights, sustainability obligations and workplace decision-making.
If governments around the world are to rise to the challenges of climate change, the tax system will have a vital role to play, argues a new report.
The urgency of the environmental challenges confronting us has reached an unprecedented level, shining a glaring spotlight on the unsustainable nature of our current single-use packaging practices. Accepting the status quo is no longer an option and profound shift towards reusing packaging, to complement but also take us beyond the limitations of recycling, is imperative.
