To ensure the EU is on path to sustainable growth the Union must strengthen its innovative potential and use its resources in the best possible way. Public data such as geographical information, statistics, weather data and data from publicly funded research projects are part of these resources. Currently the situation is rather unsatisfying in that [...]
The European Commission‘s report on the EU’s performance in preventing waste and recycling it is giving some very interesting insights and I have researched some more facts on EuroStat.
25 Jul 2010
by Denise Recheis - Category: News
Last Thursday The Financial Times, Le Monde and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published an article which set out possible economic benefits that could be achieved by increasing the EU’s target of 20% to a more ambitious 30%. Ministers of the UK, Germany and France laid out their visions for simultaneously increasing those targets and achieving better [...]
08 Jul 2008
by Lauri Kinnunen (www.energy-enviro.fi) - Category: Contributed News
The Group of Eight countries want to work with the nearly 200 states involved in U.N. climate change talks to adopt a goal of at least halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to a draft communique obtained by Reuters ahead of its formal approval. Mid-term goals also would be needed to achieve the shared [...]