LIFE programme awards 2022 winners for boosting biodiversity, environmental and climate action resilience and awareness raising

mennessä CrNet Oy | kesä 1, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Yesterday afternoon during EU Green Week, Europe’s largest annual environmental event, the LIFE Programme for environment and climate action announced the five winners of this year’s LIFE Awards. The LIFE Award for Nature goes to a project from Cyprus for...

Make tobacco industry accountable for environmental damage: UN health agency

mennessä CrNet Oy | touko 31, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

The tobacco industry damages both the environment and human health, and needs to be more accountable for the destruction it causes, declared the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday. The UN agency revealed that the tobacco industry costs the world more than...

Siberian tundra could virtually disappear by mid-millennium

mennessä CrNet Oy | touko 30, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

  AWI study shows: only ambitious climate protection measures can still save a third of the tundra . Due to global warming, temperatures in the Arctic are climbing rapidly. As a result, the treeline for Siberian larch forests is steadily advancing to the north,...

Fourth Security Union Report: Preparedness and resilience shown by the EU in the face of exceptional and unexpected threats

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

The Commission is adopting today the fourth progress report on the progress made under the EU Security Union Strategy. The report focuses on the developments since Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified aggression against Ukraine, which also brings a range of risks...

European Research Council supports scientists to explore the commercial potential of their discoveries

mennessä CrNet Oy | touko 25, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

  55 grantees of the European Research Council (ERC) have been awarded the Proof of Concept Grants to explore the commercial or societal potential of their research findings. Worth €150,000 each, this top-up funding is part of the EU’s research and...