Special EU fund for coal regions looks good but is costly, warns Czech study

mennessä CrNet Oy | helmi 22, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Creating a new European fund to support coal regions – the Just Transition Fund – may look like a positive step for disadvantaged areas, but its administration is complex, costly and threatens its effective use, warns a new Czech study based on interviews with...

Statement by the Conference of Presidents on the death of Alexei Navalny

mennessä CrNet Oy | helmi 22, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

On Wednesday, the European Parliament’s Conference of Presidents (President and political groups’ leaders) made the following statement on the death of Alexei Navalny. We the leaders of the Political Groups of the European Parliament express our outrage following the...

Political agreement on EU-wide certification scheme for carbon removals

mennessä CrNet Oy | helmi 21, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

The European Parliament and EU Council reached a provisional agreement Tuesday on a first EU-wide voluntary framework for the certification of high-quality carbon removals.  The new certification framework is aimed at boosting innovative carbon removal technologies...

Rain Comes to the Arctic, With a Cascade of Troubling Changes

mennessä CrNet Oy | helmi 21, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

In August of 2021, rain fell atop the 10,551-foot summit of the Greenland ice cap, triggering an epic meltdown and a more-than-2,000-foot retreat of the snowline. The unprecedented event reminded Joel Harper, a University of Montana glaciologist who works on the...

EU to tackle ship-source pollution to clean up Europe’s seas

mennessä CrNet Oy | helmi 20, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

The EU Council and Parliament reached political agreement late Thursday to amend Directive 2005/35/EC on ship-source pollution and on the introduction of penalties for pollution offences. The co-legislators agreed to align the Directive with the International...

Rights experts call for probe into alleged violations against Palestinian women and girls

mennessä CrNet Oy | helmi 20, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, was among the human rights experts who issued the statement. UN Photo/Rick Bajornas Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, was among the human rights experts who...