Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

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Climate change cannot be stopped immediately and some of its consequences are inevitable, even if we could cut all our emissions now. This is why the EU has been helping communities around the world adapt to the changes already happening. For instance, the EU has created five ‘ecovillages’ in Tanzania to fight the desertification caused […]

The Joint Committee under the EU and Swiss Linking Agreement agreed on the 2023 arrangements for the transfers of emission allowances between the registries of the EU Emissions Trading System and the Swiss Emissions Trading System. The Agreement between the EU and Switzerland on the linking of their Emission Trading Systems entered into force on […]

(Seychelles News Agency) – The year 2022 brought some relief for Seychelles from the challenges of COVID-19 as restrictions were removed and the Seychelles’ economy rebounded. However, the war between Russia and Ukraine created new challenges. As the world gets ready for 2023, SNA looks back at its five most-read articles of 2022. The entire SNA […]

Last month, the Commission launched the Climate Resilience Dialogue, as announced in its Strategy for Financing the Transition to a Sustainable Economy as well as in the new EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change. The first meeting of the dialogue brought together insurers, reinsurers, the corporate sector, consumers, public authorities and other stakeholders to […]

The European Commission has today adopted its annual Carbon Market Report, which tracks the functioning of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) from the beginning of the fourth trading phase in 2021 up until to mid-2022. The report finds that ETS emissions from stationary installations (energy and carbon-intensive industry) increased in 2021, by 6.6% compared […]

The editor’s choice for our December issue is “Elevated CO2 alleviates adverse effects of drought on plant water relations and photosynthesis: A global meta-analysis” by Zhaoguo Wang, et al. Here, Associate Editor Alessio Collalti and colleague Paulina F. Puchi discuss the importance of this research:  The rapid increase of atmospheric CO2 concentration has caused an increment in […]

Weeks after the COP27 UN climate conference in Egypt and with the COP15 biodiversity conference in Canada still ongoing, it is clearer than ever that the two crises – climate change and biodiversity loss – are interconnected and need to be tackled together. Warmer temperatures, droughts, rising sea levels: these and other extreme consequences of […]

Dit bericht is hier ook beschikbaar in het Engels. Nelleke Buitendijk bespreekt een recent gepubliceerde studie van haar en haar collega’s over de impact van begrazing op boeren graslanden. Uit het onderzoek blijkt dat de hoeveelheid herbivoren mogelijk niet direct vertaald naar de hoeveelheid opbrengstverlies, waar rekening mee moet worden gehouden bij het inzetten van […]

The cover image for our December issue shows germination day one of European Hazel, Corylus avellana. The yellow radicle breaks through the nut wall and elongates into the substrate over the following fortnight. This image relates to the article, Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Corylus avellana, by Damien Hicks. Here, Damien tells us the story behind the image: The […]