• Sustainability

Wealthy EU Nations Move to Stop Trash Burning

• EU
• incinerator
• trash

by Ashira Morris, ODP Staff Writer European Union countries like Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden have been sending millions of tons of trash to be burned in “waste to energy” incinerators. But because of the incinerators’ CO2 emissions and health impacts, the bloc is starting to cut off funding for new plants. This change “comes […]

• Climate Change

EU Commits to More Emissions Cuts on Paris Agreement Anniversary

• climate change
• EU
• Paris Agreement
• Paris Climate Agreement

by Ashira Morris, ODP Contributing Writer The night before the UN’s Climate Ambition Summit 2020 on Saturday, the European Union set a new ambitious target of cutting emissions by 55 percent compared to 1990 levels over the next decade. The updated target comes just a year after the 27-country bloc set its goal at reducing […]

• Green Finance
• Politics

European Commission Agrees To Green Deal Stimulus, But Is It Green Enough?

• #GreenDeal
• conservation
• EU
• Europe
• European Commission
• Greta Thunberg

The Guardian and S&P Global reported that after days of haggling, the European Commission settled on an $864 billion USD recovery fund for the next 3 years, plus a five year budget with a target of spending 30% of that to support the EU’s climate commitments.  

Why This Matters:  Activist leader Greta Thunberg immediately criticized the deal as not being good enough.

• Land

EU Commits to Protecting 30% of Nature by 2030

• #CampaignforNature
• 30 by 30
• EU

Yesterday the European Commission announced that it will commit to protecting 30% of the EU’s land and oceans by 2030 (30 by 30) as part of the European Green Deal. In addition to this declaration, the EU will also plant 3 billion trees by 2030 and cut chemical pesticide use by 50% and fertilizer use […]

• Energy

Europe Pushes for Green Stimulus, Will Congressional Republicans Finally See the Light?

• Congress
• EU
• Germany
• Green Stimulus
• Republicans
• UK

Speaking ahead of a virtual meeting of 30 nations, Germany and Britain’s environment ministers said Monday that efforts to revive the global economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic must ensure a ‘green recovery’ that helps the world tackle climate change, according to AP. The ministers emphasized the importance of economic recovery programs to invest […]

• Sustainability

EU “Right to Repair” Plan Tackles Source of E-Waste

• electronics
• EU

Consumers in the European Union will soon have the ability to have better access to more sustainable electronics. Under a new initiative unveiled by the European Commission, consumers will have an automatic right to have their devices repaired rather than throw them away under a new initiative unveiled by the European Commission today. As Forbes […]