Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

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 […]

His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI (Catholic Church England, Flickr) Photo license   (Seychelles News Agency) – The President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, has sent a message of condolence to Pope Francis I, following the announcement of the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on Saturday, December 31, aged 95. “It is with great sadness and […]

The European Commission and European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) have invited EAVOR-LOOP to prepare a grant agreement to finance the first commercial-scale implementation of an innovative closed-loop geothermal technology. EAVOR-LOOP is a highly scalable geothermal energy project in Germany which extracts heat from the earth through conduction and will provide clean, dispatchable […]

How much carbon is stored in the aboveground biomass (AGB) of Wytham Woods aka the ‘most studied forest in the world’? Professors Mat Disney and Kim Calders thought this would be very well-known but were surprised to find this perhaps wasn’t the case after all. They discuss how their team approached their latest research. Over […]

Viscum Album. Photograph by Jonathan Briggs. It’s part of Christmas – hanging up the mistletoe and stealing kisses beneath it.  But as we think more about green issues, can we still justify this?  Mistletoe is not a common plant in most parts of Britain, so is the annual custom of picking it to kiss under […]