Towards a ‘happy’ budget? Broad calls for wellbeing to underpin EU funding
Intense political debate on the future of EU spending continues apace ahead of the Commission’s May deadline for...
Sustainable Development
Calls grow to stop making smartphones that are designed to break
What if you could upgrade your smartphone or easily repair a cracked screen instead of having to buy...
Europe throwing precaution to the wind on chemical policy
The European Union has accepted that its chemical safety laws could be working far more effectively, yet maintains...
European countries’ sustainability progress under scrutiny at Geneva forum
European countries’ progress on key UN environmental goals will face scrutiny at a special two-day forum starting in...
OPINION: Does the world need a global pact for the environment?
The Paris Agreement is supposed to handle climate change. The Sustainable Development Goals should be the grand master...
Industry blown away by record year for wind
More wind power was added to Europe’s grid in 2017 than any year in history as records were...
Sponge cities – how urban wetlands reduce flood risk
Flooding is an all too real risk for cities around the world. Climate change has made the sight...
Era of life-saving antibiotics could be over if pharmaceutical waste not tackled
Pharmaceutical pollution is contributing to the end of life-saving antibiotics. Despite this a senior European Commission official revealed...
5 ways the EU’s sustainability statistics fall flat
Data specialists at the EU’s statistics’ hub recently published results on how well governments are doing when it...
Environment ministers meet in shadow of giant dumpsite
As the world’s environment ministers gather in Nairobi, one of the planet’s largest dumpsites on the outskirts of...
