Ecology
Nature Restoration Law: Council Gives Final Green Light
The Council formally adopted the – first of its kind – regulation on nature restoration. This law aims to put measures in place to restore at least 20 per cent of the EU’s land and sea areas by 2030, and…
Soil Monitoring Law: EU on the Pathway to Gealthy Soils by 2050
The general approach reached by the Council today aims to make soil health monitoring obligatory, provides guiding principles for sustainable soil management and addresses situations where soil contamination poses unacceptable health and environment risks. Healthy soils are the foundation for…
UNESCO Launches New Initiatives for “Greening Education”
On World Environment Day, UNESCO unveils new tools for greening schools and curricula, highlighting the need to empower young people to play a concrete role in tackling the climate crisis. Greening schools and curricula is one of the best levers…
Hottest May on Record Spurs Call for Climate Action
May 2024 was the warmest May on record, marking the 12th consecutive month in which the global average temperature reached a record value for the corresponding month, according to data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (*C3S). The C3S data…
The world’s Corals are Bleaching – Here’s Why
Two prominent research organizations confirmed a few weeks ago what scientists had long thought: the world’s warm water coral reefs are bleaching en masse for the fourth time in 25 years. Corals are collections of hundreds of thousands of tiny…
Europe’s Air Quality Keeps Improving but Pollution Levels Are Still Insafe in Many Areas
The EEA briefing ‘Europe’s air quality status 2024’ presents data on levels of key air pollutants in Europe in 2022 and 2023 and compares these concentrations to the EU air quality standards and World Health Organization (WHO) health-based guideline levels.…
2023 Environmental Protection Investment: 67 billion euros
Eurostat estimates that in 2023, EU countries invested about 67 billion euros into assets essential to provide environmental protection services. These services included wastewater treatment plants, vehicles to transport waste, acquisitions of land to create a natural reserve, or cleaner…