SIX EU ISLANDS PUBLISH THEIR AGENDA FOR THE TRANSITION TOWARDS CLEAN ENERGY
Six European islands have this Wednesday published their clean energy transition agendas, taking a firm step towards the decarbonisation of their energy systems with a strong focus on citizen participation. On November 20, the Aran Islands (Ireland), the Cres-Island archipelago (Croatia), Culatra (Portugal), La Palma (Spain), Salina (Italica) and Sifnos (Greece) published [...]
TEXTILES: THE FOURTH CAUSE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURE IN THE EU AFTER FOOD, HOUSING AND TRANSPORT
According to a report published this week by the European Environment Agency (EEA), the consumption of clothing, footwear and home textiles in the European Union (EU) annually amounts to around 1.3 tons of raw materials and more of 100 cubic meters of water per person. A large-scale shift to the economy [...]
TOWARDS CLIMATE NEUTRALITY
The EU will need to update its long-term climate goal in 2020. The Parliament wants to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The European Parliament will vote in the plenary session, from 25 to 28 November, a resolution in which it will urge the EU to set the goal of achieving carbon neutrality [...]
THE FOUNDATION FOR THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY AT THE CONFERENCE ON THE CHALLENGES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE IN THE GALLERY FOOD SECTOR
The Foundation for the Circular Economy will be present at the day "The challenges for a sustainable future in the Galician food sector", which the Food Cluster of Galicia (Clusaga) organizes, in collaboration with the University of Santiago de Compostela ·la (USC), next November 27 in the Ciudad de da Cultura de Galicia, in […]
THE UNIVERSITY OF CASTELLA-LA MANCHA, IN SPAIN, PRESENTS THE CIRCULECON PROJECT
The main researcher of the project, aimed at promoting the circular economy, has emphasized that society is still at an "initial moment" in this field, so it is necessary to "awaken interest" from consumers and also from productive models so that the circular economy is progressing and ecological and environmental transition change is encouraged. [...]
SPAIN UPDATES THE NATIONAL PLAN FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STOCKHOLM CONVENTION AND THE COP REGULATION
The Council of Ministers, at the proposal of the Ministry for Ecological Transition, has agreed to update the National Plan for the implementation of the Stockholm Convention and Regulation (EC) 850/2004 on persistent organic pollutants (POP). POPs are chemical substances that gather four characteristics at the same time: they are highly toxic, very persistent, bioaccumulative and, at [...]
MEPs PRESS IN FAVOR OF CARBON NEUTRALITY BY 2050
According to the Environment Committee of the European Parliament, the European Union (EU) should commit to carbon neutrality by 2050 and strengthen its ambition for 2030 to reduce emissions. Before the United Nations Conference on Climate Change to be held in Madrid in December, MEPs [...]
FRANCE: THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY BILL AND THE FIGHT AGAINST WASTE, NOW IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
The draft Law on the circular economy and the fight against waste has entered the National Assembly after a controversial debate in the Senate. The text of the circular economy law (LEC, for the acronym in Spanish) promulgated by Brune Poirson, Secretary of State of the French Ministry of Ecological Transition, came out considerably strengthened from [...]
PROGRESS IS OBSERVED IN THE REDUCTION OF PLASTIC POLLUTION
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the United Nations Environment Program publish the first annual progress report of the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment (in English, New Plastics Economy Global Commitment). According to the report, companies establish actions to reduce problematic plastic packaging and increase the use of plastic [...]
NEW TECHNOLOGIES COULD ALLOW THE RECYCLING OF ALL PLASTIC WASTE
Researchers in Sweden claim to have developed technology that will allow all plastic waste to be recycled, and transformed into new products from this material. According to the Chalmers University of Technology group, the process can break down any plastic waste at a molecular level and the resulting gases can be transformed into new plastics, of the same quality [...]
