Environment and health

The European Parliament launches the Horizon Europe research programme 2021-2027, which will help EU health systems to prepare for future pandemics and industry to achieve decarbonisation and stimulate innovation. Horizon Europe includes the largest budget for digital research and digitisation ever decided by the EU. The programme provides short and [...]

The Commission is allocating 123 million euros from Horizon Europe, the new EU research and innovation programme, for urgent research on coronavirus variants. This first emergency funding under Horizon Europe is in addition to a number of EU-funded research and innovation actions to combat coronavirus and contributes to the Commission’s [...]

A step forward for the definition of a European climate law: yesterday the negotiators of the Council and the European Parliament reached an interim political agreement that introduces into the legislation two objectives to be achieved: EU climate neutrality for 2050: the reduction of net greenhouse gas emissions (emissions net [...]

The European Parliament has finally approved the Eu4health 2021-2027 programme, to prepare EU health systems more rigorously for future pandemics and health threats. The new Eu4health programme, with a budget of 5.1 billion euros, will make a contribution in those areas where the EU can clearly add value, thus complementing [...]

On 1 April 2021, the new European Executive Agency for Climate, Infrastructure and the Environment (Cinea) will be in operation, which will inherit all the activities and projects of implementation and energy efficiency so far carried out by the Energy Unit of the Easme Agency. Cinea, with a total budget [...]

Zero carbon emissions by 2050 as required by the EU targets would lead to the creation of 5 million new jobs in Europe. And Italy would be the country able to take advantage of this socio-economic boom, thanks to the production of hydrogen and its competitiveness in the renewable energy [...]

New rules on the export, import and shipment of plastic waste within the EU, are those adopted by the European Commission to prohibit the export of plastic waste from the EU to non-OECD countries, with the exception of clean plastic waste destined for recycling. Exports of plastic waste from the [...]

The objectives of “LIFE”, the programme designed by the European Commission, include saving the Earth from climate change, improving the quality of life, protecting the environment and the nature, and connecting the projects to solutions that can help managing pandemics like the one the world is facing these days. The [...]