Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

Today, the Yara Sluiskil plant, the largest commercial carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Europe started its operations in Sluikil, a village in the Zeeland province of the Netherlands. The CO2 will be transported by ship and permanently stored under the Norwegian North Sea at the Northern Lights facility, funded by the EU under the […]

Across all the BES journals, we’ve seen a marked rise in submissions over the last year, highlighting the strong reputation and reach of our journals and published articles. However, this growth also brings increased pressure to maintain a rigorous and fair peer review system, as editors face growing challenges in securing suitable reviewers, while reviewers […]

On 8 September 2026, the Commission adopted a new Decision allocating EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) allowances to airlines for using sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) in 2025. Under this decision, EU ETS support for SAF uptake in 2025 amounts to about 5.2 million ETS allowances, worth approximately €430 million and distributed among 130 operators. This […]

Pilar Hurtado Aragüés, Global Change Research Institute and Department of Biology (Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain), discusses her article: Network modularity analysis reveals strategies for strengthening forest resistance, recovery, and resilience to disturbances Looking beneath the surface Before working on this project, I would probably have answered the question “Can we really make forests […]

Wei Lin and Chengjin Chu, Sun Yat-sen University, discuss their article: Interannual rainfall variability promotes species coexistence primarily through relative nonlinearity in interaction strength Ecologists often study species coexistence as if environmental conditions remain constant over time. But in the real world, rainfall can vary dramatically from one year to the next. Does this variability […]

On 2 May 2024, the Commission published Germany’s notification under Article 12(4) of Directive 2003/87/EC (‘ETS Directive’), concerning its intention to voluntarily cancel allowances associated with the closure of electricity generation capacities in two ETS installations in its territory in 2022 due to additional national measures. Following the procedure for the cancellation of allowances laid […]

The auction calendar has been adjusted following the suspension of the auctioning of the first leg of emission allowances allocated to the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). The auctioning of emission allowances for the RRF under the REPowerEU plan started in July 2023 with a revenue target of EUR 20 billion: EUR 12 billion from […]

Representatives from nearly 200 countries met at the annual mid-year UN climate conference from 8 to 18 June. The meetings focused on turning previous climate commitments into practical action and identifying areas where further progress is needed ahead of the next COP. The European Union worked constructively with international partners throughout the session to advance […]

As the EU prepares its participation in the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), scheduled to take place in Antalya, Türkiye, in November 2026, the European Commission and the European Economic and Social Committee, in cooperation with the European Youth Forum and Generation Climate Europe, […]

As the Mediterranean faces growing climate risks, 43 countries have launched the development of the region’s first-ever Climate Action Plan under the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM). The initiative was announced during the 3rd UfM Mediterranean Green Week, held from 30 June to 3 July 2026, and marks a major step towards coordinated regional action […]