Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

Terms and Conditions IF24 Auction On 27 September 2024, the Commission published the final Terms and Conditions (T&Cs) for its second auction for the production of renewable hydrogen (IF24 Auction), via the Innovation Fund. This auction, which is a key pillar of the European Hydrogen Bank (EHB), provides financial support to producers of hydrogen categorised […]

Alice Bernard and co-authors describe how they have jointly used local ecological knowledge and camera trap data. With hindsight, they discuss how involving local people in research projects can enhance conservation efforts in the Garden Route Biosphere Reserve (GRBR), South Africa. The Garden Route National Park (GRNP), in the eponym Biosphere Reserve, is one of […]

The Commission adopted an amendment to the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), Monitoring and Reporting Regulation (Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2066) on 23 September. The revisions include, zero-rating of emissions from certain low-carbon fuels, such as renewable fuels of non-biological origin and synthetic low-carbon fuels, in the ETS.  The changes also cover improved rules for biomass fuels […]

This month, The Applied Ecologist is amplifying the voice of early career ecologists from around the world working in the field of applied ecology to help inspire the next generation. In this post, Fellice Catelo, a PhD student at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia shares her story. My background I’m pretty easy and […]

Vít Latzel (@LatzelV; @IBOTCZ; @popecolIBOT), Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, discusses his article: Transgenerational effects of mycorrhiza are stronger in sexual than in clonal offspring of Fragaria vesca and are partly adaptive Clonal and sexual offspring of Fragaria vesca in our study. Photo by Vít Latzel. BackgroundPlants have a great capacity […]

Labelling format An Implementing Regulation on the format of F-gas labels that are required on F-gas containers as well as on certain products and equipment with F-gases. These new rules will apply from 1 January 2025. Until then, the labelling requirement in Article 12 in the previous F-gas Regulation (EU) No 517/2014 and the format […]

This blog post is also available in German here. Dominik Poniatowski and colleagues describe how they evaluated the environmental drivers of species richness and biomass of grasshoppers in grasslands, comparing this between nature reserves and intensively-used agriculture landscape. Grassland exhibiting low land-use intensity is considered a hotspot of biodiversity in Central Europe. However, particularly since […]

June to August 2024 was the warmest summer on record, exceeding the previous record set in 2023, and Europe faced multiple climate extremes. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions remains an utmost priority, but even if we stay below 1.5°C globally, the EU is warming at twice the global average, bringing us to a physical climate reality […]

In this new series, The Applied Ecologist is amplifying the staff and student voices from the University of Surrey’s Centre for Environment and Sustainability to showcase their diverse, interdisciplinary body of work and to help inspire the next generation. In this final post of the series, we share below Walter’s speech as he transitioned to […]

Sean J Sharp (@seancologie, Linkedin), from University of Maryland, discusses his article: Large grazers suppress a foundational plant and reduce soil carbon concentration in eastern US saltmarshes Wild horses grazing on Cumberland Island, Georgia, USA. Photo by Kate Davidson. Grazing has been a common practice in temperate salt marshes for millennia. In European saltmarshes, the […]