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To save biodiversity, MEPs call for binding targets at global and EU level

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis - January 16, 2020

MEPs want the upcoming global biodiversity conference COP 15 to agree on legally binding targets, as was the case for the Paris agreement on...

Five burning questions for the EU’s forest policies in 2020

ENVIRONMENT Theodoros Benakis - January 7, 2020

In 2019, forests and forest peoples’ rights rose up the global political – and spiritual - agenda, and the European Union (EU) made high profile commitments to protect forests abroad and...

Bees: MEPs call for reduction in use of pesticides to save Europe’s bees

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis - December 18, 2019

MEPs call on the Commission to beef up its Pollinators Initiative and to come up with new measures to protect bees and other pollinators. In...

Climate change: new rules agreed to determine which investments are green

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis - December 17, 2019

Parliament negotiators reached an agreement with Council on Monday on new criteria to determine whether an economic activity is environmentally sustainable. The so-called “taxonomy regulation”...

Hearing of Commissioner-designate Virginijus Sinkevičius: Forests, biodiversity and oceans governance

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis - October 3, 2019

The Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and Fisheries Committees questioned Virginijus Sinkevičius, candidate for the Environment and Oceans portfolio. Political groups’ coordinators and...

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