Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

The Innovation Fund 2025 Net-Zero Technologies (IF25 NZT) call closed on 23 April 2026, receiving a total of 358 project proposals from 27 countries, confirming strong interest from European industry to innovate and decarbonise. The proposals submitted under this call requested a total of €17.5 billion in support – six times the available €2.9 billion budget. […]

The current geopolitical situation, with rising tensions, conflicts, and disruptions to global supply chains, has made defence and security a top priority for Europe. At the same time, climate change is physically impacting the EU’s defence and security landscape and increasing demands on the military for disaster relief operations at home. Proactively managing the risks […]

Target remains within reach In 2024, the EU set a target of 50 million tonnes of annual injection capacity in EU geological CO2 storage sites by 2030 to support carbon capture and storage projects, cut industrial emissions and increase the availability of CO2 storage sites in Europe. Today’s report shows that there has been significant […]

By Walter R Jubber, Andrea Fuller, Maria Paniw Drylands cover over 40% of Earth’s land surface. When we think about biodiversity in drylands, we often picture aboveground shrubs, flowers sprouting after rain, grazing animals, and maybe insects scurrying across the surface. But a key adaptation to extreme temperatures and aridity, especially for invertebrates, is spending […]

Eva Janíková, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, discusses her article: Realistic species loss has little effect on local resource depletion and competitive pressure in a temperate wet meadow A story that started with a simple idea When we began this project, we had clear expectations. Following ideas going back to Charles Elton’s hypothesis […]

Robert Dunn and Steve Pennings, University of Houston, discuss their article: Variable trait responses to rapid sea level rise in a foundational grass across a coastal marsh landscape One strategy that plants utilize to survive across a range of environmental conditions is to alter the expression of their traits. Functional traits are the characteristics of […]

Miaojun Ma. Lanzhou University, discusses his article: Warming advanced leaf senescence in alpine plants through advancing leaf emergence and increasing soil drought Background Plant autumn leaf senescence, which marks the end of photosynthesis and the growing season, as well as the onset of dormancy, is particularly critical in the plant annual cycle. Early or late […]

The EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change has published its 2025/26 Activity Report, highlighting continued progress in turning climate adaptation ambitions into concrete action across Europe. The report demonstrates strong and growing engagement throughout the Mission ecosystem, with more than 400 regional and local authorities now participating in Mission activities and initiatives. This momentum […]

Carlos Roberto Fonseca, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) in Brazil, discusses his article: The Red Queen unveils the sexual and mating strategies of flowers In 1876, Charles Darwin wrote the book “The effects of cross and self-fertilization in the vegetable kingdom” to answer a simple, but important question: if self-fertilisation is the […]

On 12 May 2026, the European Commission’s hosted a high-level stakeholder roundtable on the review of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), bringing together close to 60 representatives from a wide range of industry, aviation and maritime sectors covered by the EU ETS, as well as civil society organisations and  other relevant stakeholders such […]