Commission announces winners of LIFE Awards 2024

mennessä CrNet Oy | kesä 3, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

During the EU Green Week, the Commission announced the winners of this year’s edition of the LIFE Awards. The LIFE Awards recognise the most innovative, inspirational and effective projects financed by the EU’s LIFE Programme in three categories: nature...

Nuclear waste to be scanned before final disposal

mennessä CrNet Oy | touko 30, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

At Olkiluoto in Eurajoki, preparations are underway to start the disposal of spent nuclear fuel in the Finnish bedrock next year – as the first place in the world. After use, nuclear fuel becomes strongly radiating and dangerous waste. It contains a large amount of...

Natural gas demand drops by 7.4% in 2023

mennessä CrNet Oy | touko 29, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

The EU’s demand for natural gas fell by another 7.4 per cent in 2023, according to figures released Tuesday by the EU’s statistics agency, to a total of 12.72 million terajoules. EU demand for natural gas has been declining for 2 consecutive years, and the...

Most of Europe’s bathing waters remain safe

mennessä CrNet Oy | touko 29, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

The vast majority of bathing water sites in Europe met the EU’s most stringent ‘excellent’ bathing quality standards in 2023, according to the latest annual Bathing Water report published Tuesday. The figure, which represents 85.4% of the EU’s...

EU and Australia sign partnership on sustainable critical and strategic minerals

mennessä CrNet Oy | touko 29, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

The EU and Australia signed today a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a bilateral partnership to cooperate on sustainable critical and strategic minerals. The MoU was signed on behalf of the EU by Executive Vice-President and Commissioner for Trade Valdis...

Net-Zero Industry Act makes the EU the home of clean tech manufacturing and green jobs

mennessä CrNet Oy | touko 28, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

The Commission welcomes the final adoption of the Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA) today, which puts the EU on track to strengthen its domestic manufacturing capacities of key clean technologies. President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said: “With the...