State aid: Commission approves €687 million Finnish scheme to compensate energy-intensive companies for indirect emission costs

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 22, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €687 million Finnish scheme to partially compensate energy-intensive companies for higher electricity prices resulting from the impact of carbon prices on electricity generation costs (so-called...

Palestine: EU announces €261 million in support of UNRWA’s operations

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 10, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

The European Union confirmed today its role as a long-standing, predictable and reliable partner of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and one of its largest donors. The European Commission adopted €261 million...

Sustainable consumption: Commission publishes the first progress reports under the Green Consumption Pledge

mennessä CrNet Oy | heinä 20, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

A year after its launch, the European Commission published the first progress reports of enterprises participating in the Green Consumption Pledge. This initiative encouraged companies to take a voluntary pledge to further support sustainable consumption, beyond the...

The European Commission recommends to Council confirming Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia’s perspective to become members of the EU and provides its opinion on granting them candidate status

mennessä CrNet Oy | kesä 20, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

The European Commission presented its Opinions on the application for EU membership submitted by Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia as invited by the Council. Today’s Opinions are based on the Commission’s assessment in light of the three...

Commission supports the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance to reduce EU dependency on Russian gas

mennessä CrNet Oy | kesä 17, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

The Commission is hosting the fourth Forum of the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance. Members of the Alliance will discuss the Commission’s REPowerEU Plan, which sets out a series of actions to accelerate hydrogen deployment to spur the green transition and...