EU companies increase research and development investments in key sectors

mennessä CrNet Oy | joulu 23, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

EU companies drove strong research and development (R&D) growth in energy, health, aerospace and defence in 2024, according to the 2025 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard published today. While the report highlights Europe’s leadership in key...

Earth’s Growing Heat Imbalance Driven More by Clouds Than Air Pollution, Study Finds

mennessä CrNet Oy | joulu 23, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing “energy imbalance” that is fueling global warming. Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing “energy imbalance” that is fueling global warming. A new study led by...

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...