BRUSSELS, Belgium, February 27, 2023 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – The latest Standard Eurobarometer survey published one year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, shows strong and continuing solidarity of Europeans with Ukraine. EU citizens support accelerating the energy transition, investments in renewable energy, and taking action to reduce the EU’s dependence on Russian energy sources.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium, February 1, 2023 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – One-third of European Union countries have not yet introduced any measures to reduce energy demand, and only 12 have put mandatory energy reduction measures in place, finds a fresh analysis of measures adopted by EU governments to reduce gas and electricity consumption.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium, November 18, 2023 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – The European Commission has approved a €3 billion Austrian plan to support companies facing soaring energy costs due to Russia’s war against Ukraine. Solar photovoltaic capacity, both large utility-scale and small distributed systems, accounts for two-thirds of this year’s projected increase in global renewable capacity.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 26, 2023 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – A cold beer at the end of a hot day tastes mighty good. When most people enjoy a cold one, the energy efficiency and carbon footprint of the brewery that made the pint at their lips rarely crosses their minds. But that’s not true of Ken Grossman. Energy efficiency is top of mind for him.
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The latest Standard Eurobarometer survey published one year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, shows strong and continuing solidarity of Europeans with Ukraine. EU citizens support accelerating the energy transition, investments in renewable energy, and taking action to reduce the EU’s dependence on Russian energy sources.
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One-third of European Union countries have not yet introduced any measures to reduce energy demand, and only 12 have put mandatory energy reduction measures in place, finds a fresh analysis of measures adopted by EU governments to reduce gas and electricity consumption.
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October 17, 2022 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – A billion end-of-life tires are generated every year and there are currently four billion such tires in landfills and stockpiles worldwide, according to a study by the Tire Industry Project for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development published in May 2021. Current estimates are even higher, reaching 1.5 billion waste tires a year according to the World Economic Forum.
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LONDON, UK, February 10, 2022 (ENS) – Drought is a fact of life for more than two billion people on Earth who face severe water shortages. The crisis has led water scientists to explore the reuse of non-traditional sources such as stormwater, brackish aquifer water, and municipal reclaimed water.
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The European Union is aiming for a reliable supply of rare earth minerals and so is everyone else in Brussels this week for the EU’s fourth annual Raw Materials Week. Adding to the urgency of securing supplies, across the Atlantic, the United States and Australia Monday signed their own rare earth mining and supply agreement.
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Under the European Union’s primary law to boost energy efficiency – and meet the EU target of cutting energy use by 20 percent by 2020 – all companies with more than 250 employees must conduct an energy audit within a common framework once every four years. The next deadline for compliance is December 5, 2019.
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Each year around 20 percent of food produced in the European Union is lost or wasted, causing unacceptable social, environmental and economic harm. Meanwhile, some 43 million EU residents cannot afford a quality meal, including meat, chicken, fish or a vegetarian equivalent, every second day. There are many ways to prevent food waste.
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The European Union is already one of the world’s major consumers of minerals and metallic raw materials, and demand is expected to grow quickly. The EU wants to mine those minerals and raw materials on its own territory, but at the same time would like to avoid invasive, destructive mining practices that have given the industry a bad reputation throughout the world.
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Ten European Union traders in six EU Member States are importing timber from a logging company in Democratic Republic of Congo that has been penalized for ignoring forest and labor laws, a new report from Global Witness reveals, as the world celebrates the International Day of Forests.
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Almost four million registered refugees live in Turkey – Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans, Iranians, and Somalis, among others – making Turkey the country with the highest number of refugees in the world. Almost half of them are children.
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