Final vote on entry into force of EU Deforestation Regulation

mennessä CrNet Oy | joulu 22, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

okok The EU Parliament and Council gave the final green light to amendments to the EU’s deforestation law which seeks to fight climate change and biodiversity loss by ensuring products sold in the EU are not sourced from deforested land. The United Nations Food and...

EU institutions define priorities for 2026

mennessä CrNet Oy | joulu 19, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

A Joint Declaration on EU legislative priorities for 2026 was signed today by the Presidents of Parliament, Council and Commission. Given the speed and complexity of challenges faced by the European Union, unity, urgency and ambition are key. That is also the spirit...

EU publishes new guidelines to protect workers from asbestos

mennessä CrNet Oy | joulu 19, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

The European Commission has issued new guidelines to better protect workers from the dangerous cancer-causing substance asbestos, as well as an updated list of occupational diseases. Asbestos exposure remains one of the leading causes of occupational cancer in the EU....

Gaza: Access to food improves but living conditions remain dire

mennessä CrNet Oy | joulu 19, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

A pregnant woman in Gaza thought she might lose her child because of malnourishment. Ten days ago, she gave birth and is now in recovery thanks to World Food Programme (WFP) facilities that are back up and running again, the agency’s representative for Palestine said...

Researchers Find Trees Could Spruce Up Future Water Conservation Efforts

mennessä CrNet Oy | joulu 19, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Trees contain valuable information about Earth’s past, so much so that studying their rings may help fill in hidden gaps in Ohio’s environmental history. Trees are the planet’s living lungs; they remove carbon from the atmosphere to clean the air, and filter our...

Asylum: EP and Council reach a deal to update safe third country rules

mennessä CrNet Oy | joulu 18, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Parliament and Council negotiators have reached a political agreement on updates to the 2024 Asylum Law regarding the conditions for applying the rules on safe third countries. On Thursday the negotiating team of the Civil Liberties Committee informally agreed with...