EU guidelines promote greater reuse of water in agriculture

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 5, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Facing droughts in several EU Member States, the Commission published guidelines Wednesday for applying rules on the safe reuse of treated urban waste water for agricultural irrigation. With several Member States increasingly suffering from droughts, reusing water...

Ukraine: EU report notes important steps taken in the implementation of the reform agenda

mennessä CrNet Oy | heinä 27, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Ahead of the EU-Ukraine Association Council planned to take place on 5 September, the European Union today published its annual Association Implementation Report on Ukraine. The report outlines Ukraine’s implementation of reforms under the EU-Ukraine Association...

8th Environment Action Programme: EU sets out to measure progress on Green Deal environment and climate goals

mennessä CrNet Oy | heinä 27, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

The Commission presented a list of headline indicators for monitoring progress towards the EU’s environment and climate goals to 2030, as well as the 2050 long-term vision to ‘live well, within planetary boundaries’. Resulting from intense consultations...

EU targets 15 pct reduction in gas use by next spring

mennessä CrNet Oy | heinä 21, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

With Europe facing the risk of further gas supply cuts by Russia, the European Commission put forward Wednesday a European Gas Demand Reduction Plan to reduce gas use in Europe. Almost half of the EU’s Member States have already affected by reduced deliveries,...

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...