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UNESCO Declares Environmental Education Must be a Core Curriculum Component by 2025
Over 80 ministers and vice ministers and 2,800 education and environment stakeholders committed to taking concrete steps to transform learning for the survival of our planet by adopting the Berlin Declaration on...
Global Assessment: Urgent Steps Must be Taken to Reduce Methane Emissions this Decade
A Global Methane Assessment released today by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) shows that human-caused methane emissions can be reduced by up to...
Global Electric Car Sales Set for Further Strong Growth After 40 percent Rise in 2020
New IEA report sees major expansion in electric vehicle adoption this decade, which could accelerate further if governments implement policies aimed at reaching net zero goals.
The global auto industry suffered a punishing...
Smart Technologies In The Service Of Your Comfort
There is no doubt that we will remember the passing year for a long time, and among the numerous consequences caused by the Covid-19 virus pandemic is the global economic downturn. Although...
Eastern and Southern Africa’s Vast Renewables Potential Offers Route to Sustainable Growth
Eastern and Southern Africa are vast, geographically diverse regions with rapidly growing populations and rising demands for energy. According to master plans for the two regional power pools, electricity demand is set...
Nature-Based Solutions Should Play Increased Role in Tackling Climate Change
Climate change, biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosystems are linked and all have devastating consequences for our economic and social stability, health and well-being.
Working with nature is increasingly recognised as an efficient...
Innovation and Market Reform Needed to Drive Japan’s Clean Energy Transition, IEA Policy Review Finds
New report notes Japan’s success in making its energy system more resilient and sustainable, but says reaching carbon-neutrality by 2050 requires quick action now.
Japan will need to move quickly to make headway...
How To Keep Europeans Healthy and Safe in a Changing Climate?
The briefing ’Responding to the health risks of climate change in Europe’ highlights key health impacts from climate change as well as opportunities to reduce climate-related health risks through adaptation policies aligned...
Schools across Europe share results of their air quality projects
More than 100 schools from eight European countries participated in the citizen science CleanAir@School inititative, organised by the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the European Network of the Heads of Environmental Protection...
Plastics, a growing environmental and climate concern: how can Europe revert that trend?
The challenges posed by plastics are to a large extent due to the fact that our production and consumption systems are not sustainable. The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change have amplified public...
Reform Is Not Enough to Build Trust – a Call for System Change
In 2021, the world has a chance to not just move beyond the acute COVID-19 public health crisis, but to do it in a way that sets us on a just and...
IEA Calls on Companies, Governments and Regulators to Take Urgent Action to Cut Methane Emissions From Oil and Gas Sector
Drop in methane emissions from oil and gas industry in 2020 due mainly to lower production rather than prevention of leaks, says IEA as it releases new ‘how-to’ guide for policy makers...
Latest EEA Study Finds Multiple Benefits of Switch to Renewable Electricity
The increased use of renewable electricity across the European Union has not only reduced pressures linked to climate change, but also to air and water pollution (particulate matter formation, eutrophication and acidification),...
Ljubljana, the Capital of Bicycles, Bees and Greenery
The city government of the Slovenian capital defined the goals of sustainable mobility in 2007, and in the priorities, in accordance with the Plan for Sustainable Urban Movement adopted in 2017, they...
European Union Approves World’s Largest Green Stimulus
On Friday, EU lawmakers agreed to provide a €672 billion recovery fund boost for the EU economy.
How green is it? Fairly green — 37 percent of the funding has to go to...
Joint Cross-Border Renewable Energy Projects Are Feasible and Beneficial
The EEA briefing Cross-border cooperation for deployment of renewable energy, which looks at the challenges posed by cross-border cooperation on renewable energy, found that several key barriers exist deterring EU Member States...
