• Posted 21-Mar-2022

World Recycling Day – 18 March: innovative Horizon 2020 projects for sustainable plastic recycling

World Recycling Day is celebrated annually on 18 March, and its objective is to raise awareness about how recycling is urgently needed to protect our planet.

  • Posted 21-Mar-2022

Accelerating near zero emission breakthroughs in steel and a just transition from coal

As the Research Fund for Coal and Steel turns 20, discover how EU funding helps industry to reduce emissions and move to a more sustainable future.

  • Posted 21-Mar-2022

EU is committed to the protection of biodiversity in the ocean

The fourth Intergovernmental Conference on a Treaty of the High Seas (the UNCLOS implementing agreement on biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction, known also as “BBNJ”) concluded its work on March 18, and an agreement on an ambitious, fair, effective agreement on the treaty is in sight. Such agreement will provide much needed protection to biodiversity in the ocean.

  • Posted 21-Mar-2022

5 LIFE projects safeguarding our forests

On 21 March, was the International Day of Forests, and to mark the occasion, here is a selection of LIFE projects working to protect the lungs of our planet.

  • Posted 21-Mar-2022

CEF Energy: contributing to the security of energy supply in the EU

Russia's war in Ukraine raises serious concerns about the immediate energy security in Europe with possible far-reaching implications, given the excessive European Union’s dependence from Russian fossil fuels imports. Europe imports nearly 40% of natural gas from Russia. This means that Europe needs to drastically accelerate the clean energy transition and reduce Europe's energy dependence from unreliable suppliers and fossil fuels subject to volatile prices.

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