EU-Russia trade remains at low levels

mennessä CrNet Oy | helmi 23, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

EU trade with Russia has been strongly affected by import and export restrictions imposed following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, dropping considerably below levels prior to the invasion, Eurostat reports. Seasonally adjusted values show that Russia’s share in...

Climate and conflict collide on the high seas: UN warns of soaring costs and delays

mennessä CrNet Oy | helmi 23, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

A Singaporean cargo ship docks in a northern European port, having navigated the busy East Asia-Europe transit. Attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea coupled with wider geopolitical and climate-related crises, are upending international trade, inflating costs...

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...