Hosted by the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU, the FAO Liaison office with the European Union and Belgium, and FAO’s Forestry Division, this event will showcase how innovation within the forest-based sector can help develop high-value products and address many of today’s challenges. Discover how leading initiatives [...]

The socioeconomic indicators for the Bioeconomy Monitoring System (“BMS-Jobs&Growth”) are prepared by JRC to monitor the socioeconomic aspects of the EU Bioeconomy. It has been widely used since its first release in 2017. This report is intended to serve as technical documentation for the latest release of the dataset (May [...]

We already know that the climate crisis is making heatwaves longer, more frequent and more intense. We all experienced that first hand last summer. In fact the summer temperature in Europe in 2022 was the highest on record. Less well known is the impact of this heat on our health. [...]

Europe Day is a day to celebrate peace and unity throughout Europe. COVID-19 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine has proven to Europeans however that to protect the lives and health of citizens and preserve our economy, the European Union must take robust actions, proportionate to the dangers threatening us. [...]

ABSTRACT: Our buildings are ageing, posing an urgent need for renovation to achieve multidimensional European and international goals. Integrated renovation of buildings provides a unique opportunity to create a safe, sustainable and inclusive built environment, as it lies at the nexus between European policies on disaster resilience, energy efficiency, circularity [...]

On 3rd May the Council has adopted its position ('negotiating mandate') on the proposed directive to empower consumers for the green transition, which aims at enhancing consumers´ rights by amending the unfair commercial practices directive (UCPD) and the consumer rights directive (CRD). The Council position reinforces consumer rights, bans generic [...]

Source:European Commission - JRC Publications Repository Although complex systems such as land systems cannot be fully represented with models, they stimulate discussion that can help understand the potential risks of trade-offs between ecosystem services when there are pressures on land-based systems. We are building upon a flexible and modular spatially-explicit [...]

On April 24, the EU and Norway have established a Green Alliance to strengthen their joint climate action, environmental protection efforts, and cooperation on the clean energy and industrial transition. The EU-Norway Green Alliance will focus on some priority areas. The most relevant ones from the point of view of [...]

On 19 April, the European Parliament adopted during its plenary session, the provisional agreement on a “Regulation on making available on the Union market as well as export from the Union of certain commodities and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation” (EUDR) with a strong majority of 552 votes [...]

ABSTRACT: This report provides an overview of the fire season of 2022 in Europe, Middle East and North Africa on the basis of data in the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS). It preceeds the annual report for the 2022 that is published with the national contributions from the countries [...]