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Deal!
Today the EU agrees🤝that #batteries on the #SingleMarket should be more sustainable, circular & safe. Our aim: A 90% self-supplied European battery value chain by 2030. The🆕rules serve as a base for #sustainable & competitive #supplychains.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Growth/status/1601273257520672769
RT @UNEP_Europe: Today, @UNinBrussels & @EU_Commission staff planted 600+ trees outside of Brussels #ForOurPlanet 🌳 to highlight #climatechange impact on forests & emphasise importance of biodiversity #CoP15, marking the right to a healthy environment.
📍#ArboretumTervuren
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1601292414831845376
Energizing news! Negotiations on new EU #batteries law have just concluded. Batteries will become more sustainable throughout their lifecycle:
✅Lower carbon footprint
✅More recycled materials
✅Responsible sourcing
👉https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_22_7588
#zeropollution #circulareconomy
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1601289985319395331
RT @florikafink: Grateful to @UNinBrussels family teaming up w @EU_ENV on #ForNature campaign
Planting seeds for #COP15montreal bc nature is our best ally against #ClimateChange & #BiodiversityLoss
#Arboretum Tervuren
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1601258740136628229
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We have a deal! ✅
Powering the batteries of the future!
Greener, durable, circular.
Just agreed with @europarl_en & @EUCouncil on our new EU law that will supply our market with batteries that fit a cutting-edge European economy.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/VSinkevicius/status/1601253638005215232
RT @UNinBrussels: Today’s tree planting event:
🌳 highlights the impacts of climate change on forests,
🌲 emphasises the importance of the ongoing biodiversity #COP15, &
🌱marks the right to a healthy environment, recognized in July by the UN General Assembly.
#ForNature #ForOurPlanet
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1601250958964535296
RT @LIFEprogramme: Restoring coastal habitats #ForNature & the 🌏
The global biodiversity & climate crises are threatening ecosystems and countless species in 🇩🇰
Our #LIFEproject COASTal LIFE aims to improve:
🔸Conditions for 9 🐦 species
🔸#EUBiodiversity
👉 https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/life/publicWebsite/project/details/101074422
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1601241632443338752
RT @UNinBrussels: To mark #HumanRightsDay, in collaboration with foresters from the #Arboretum of #Tervuren, UN offices in Brussels teamed up with representatives of @EU_Commission to plant over 600 trees.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1601241254209425408
RT @UNEP_Europe: Today, @UNinbrussels & @EU_Commission planted an oak tree in the memory of Mauro Petriccione, late Director General for Climate Action, @EUClimateAction
He was a true inspiration for fighting climate change👏
📍#ArboretumTervuren
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1601222743210749953
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This week, #COP15 kicked off in Montreal with one main goal: to strike an ambitious 🌎 agreement to stop & reverse the loss of biodiversity.
But what is biodiversity & why is it important?
𝘽𝙞𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙮 is the incredible variety of all life on Earth.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUClimateAction/status/1601212280452296706
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What’s the role of international finance #ForNature?
Most of 🌍 biodiversity is found in the global south
The 🇪🇺 mobilises € 7 billion to help protect it & calls on public AND private sources to team up
More on this 👇 & on #EUatCoP15 👉 https://europa.eu/!GPXtqY
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1601166706575302657
RT @HorizonEU: Inspired by nature, #ForNature & for all of us!
#NatureBasedSolutions are key in tackling the climate & biodiversity crises.
Discover the 4️⃣6️⃣ research projects the #EU is proud to fund via its #H2020 & #HorizonEU programmes! 👇
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1601177564059668488
RT @CBD_COP15: We only have one 🌎
Yet, by 2050, we'll be consuming as if there were 🌎🌎🌎
Soon at #COP15, the 🇪🇺 will push for increased action to tackle the climate & biodiversity crises.
We need to speed up our transition to become climate-neutral by 2050.
#ForOurPlanet
Via @EU_ENV
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1601170225176928256
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Researchers have found that 1⃣4⃣% of green #turtles 🐢 stranded in the #Azores were entangled in #marine #litter.
They also found 86% of those examined after death had ingested plastic.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/SfEP/status/1601143841947426817
What’s the role of international finance #ForNature?
Most of 🌍 biodiversity is found in the global south
The 🇪🇺 mobilises € 7 billion to help protect it & calls on public AND private sources to team up
More on this 👇 & on #EUatCoP15 👉 https://europa.eu/!GPXtqY
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1601166706575302657
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📢 Just released: 🇪🇺 Red List of insect taxonomists
You read it right! We are not only losing 40% of our 🐜🪲 insects, but also our capacity to study & categorize them
This affects policies on conservation, #ClimateChange, trade & more: https://op.europa.eu/s/xinQ
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1601139861125111808
RT @VSinkevicius: What is truly at stake?
🔴 1 million species are at risk of extinction
🔴 69% of wildlife has declined since 1970
🔴 75% of the 🌍 crops depend on pollinators
We unite 🇪🇺🇨🇦 efforts with Minister @s_guilbeault at #COP15 to deliver.
Read our joint piece:
https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/opinion-why-we-have-ambitious-goals-for-cop15
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1601154698698166272
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Forests offer a natural solution to #ClimateChange.
Over the last decade, we have invested about €15 billion in the forestry sector, targeting
🌲Sustainable forestry & land management
🍃Emissions reduction
🏞️Contribution to land degradation neutrality goals.
📢 Just released: 🇪🇺 Red List of insect taxonomists
You read it right! We are not only losing 40% of our 🐜🪲 insects, but also our capacity to study & categorize them
This affects policies on conservation, #ClimateChange, trade & more: https://op.europa.eu/s/xinQ
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1601139861125111808
RT @VSinkevicius: It’s no secret.
Pooling financial resources for Nature is one of the main challenges we face especially because of war & economic struggle around the globe.
Yet putting money on Nature is the safest investment we can do!
My latest take on #COP15 here:
https://www.ft.com/content/b1414d8f-bdf6-4b8d-8571-2ae009fa33cf
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1600954910291677184
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