Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

Author Edith Villa-Galaviz shares her team’s latest study exploring key pollinator species identity and behaviour for strawberry crops that can provide vital insights for improving crop yield. Fourteen years ago, a PhD student collected a large dataset on the visitation and pollen loads of the insects that visited three strawberry fields in the South West […]

Niko Kulha discusses his recent article: Competition-induced tree mortality across Europe is driven by shade tolerance, proportion of conspecifics and drought. Climate change is altering the conditions and context for tree growth in myriad ways, including increasing forest stand density and tree biomass. These changes in tree neighborhoods suggest increased tree-tree competition, which may increase […]

Are you less than five years post-PhD, live in or are from the Global South, and looking to gain hands-on experience with an editorial board? Why not apply for the 2024 mentoring scheme with Journal of Applied Ecology! What does it involve? Since 2015, Journal of Applied Ecology has welcomed a small group of mentees […]

Following the evaluation of the first stage of the application process, 70 projects are invited to continue on the second stage and submit full applications for the first Innovation Fund call for large-scale projects, while all applicants have been informed about the results. After the admissibility and eligibility checks of all 311 proposals received, independent […]

In response to the first Innovation Fund call for small-scale projects with capital expenditure between EUR 2.5 and EUR 7.5 million, the European Commission received 232 applications for innovative clean tech projects in renewable energy, energy-intensive industries, energy storage, and carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS). The number of applications per sector(1) is: about 125 […]

The European Energy Exchange (EEX) published today the 2021 EU ETS auction calendars. The auctions will start on 29 January 2021 with an auction by Germany. The auctions on the common auction platform will start on 1 February 2021 and will also include the volumes for the Innovation Fund and the Modernisation Fund. The first […]

Today, the European Commission is launching the second call for projects under the Innovation Fund, one of the world’s largest funding programmes for the deployment of innovative low-carbon technologies. Today, the European Commission is launching the second call for projects under the Innovation Fund, one of the world’s largest funding programmes for the deployment of […]

The Commission is finalising the preparations for the period 2021-2030 of the EU ETS (phase 4), starting on 1 January 2021. Several new elements of phase 4 of the EU ETS need to be taken into account in the Union-wide quantity of allowances to be issued from 2021 (the ‘cap’) and in the start of […]

On 4 November 2020, the European Commission signed a five-year contract with European Energy Exchange AG (EEX) and its clearing system European Commodity Clearing AG (ECC) for the services of the third common auction platform under the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). EEX was appointed as the new common auction platform following a joint […]

In response to the first call for large-scale projects of the Innovation Fund, the European Commission received 311 applications for innovative clean tech projects in renewable energy, energy-intensive industries, energy storage, and carbon capture, use and storage. The number of applications per sector (1) is : 58 for renewable energy 204 for energy-intensive industries, out […]