Environment policy in the European Union
Water insecurity, driven by water scarcity, excess, and pollution, is rapidly becoming a threat to Europe’s economic and price stability. In a new guide, WWF urges central banks, financial regulators and supervisors to treat the global water crisis as a systemic financial risk and to enable the transition towards a water secure economy able to withstand future shocks.
Despite growing recognition that biodiversity loss poses a systemic risk to the economy and financial stability, France’s biggest companies remain largely unprepared to manage their impacts and risks on nature, according to a new WWF report.
E3G are looking for a Senior Policy Advisor to support their Clean Economy Programme in driving their strategy around industrial decarbonisation and the Emission Trade System (ETS) in Europe.
Today, the European Parliament’s Budget committee supported dedicated funding for the LIFE programme in its position on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) interim report, but in breaking with established practice, failed to endorse strong spending targets for climate and biodiversity.
No Patents on Seeds! have published a representative survey conducted in five EU member states, i.e. France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland. The results clearly show that around 80 percent of EU citizens reject the idea of granting patents on living organisms, e.g. patents on plants or animals.
The EU Taxonomy, Europe’s classification system for green activities, is in danger of being weakened, following the Commission’s new criteria review proposal. Several proposed changes miss the target of making the criteria easier and instead open the door to watering some of them down.
With only five months to go before the first parts of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) kick in, the Commission published on 30 March a guidance document and a Frequently Asked Questions document.
