The European Green Deal is the EU’s strategy to make its economy and society fit for a healthy planet. It advocates a policy approach oriented towards the goals of climate neutrality and circular economy. This refers essentially to the concept of sustainability transitions – understood as long-t...
The Vade Mecum supports the role of public authorities in ensuring that farmers and other rural land-managers comply with their environmental obligations. This role involves public authorities taking combinations of three different kinds of action. One kind focuses on monitoring compliance and i...
The European Green Deal sets the objective of making Europe the first climate neutral continent by 2050: a commitment which places a particular responsibility on the aviation sector. In addition to calling for a reduction of the sector’s climate footprint, the Green Deal stresses the importance ...
With the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) proposal for post-2020, there will be greater subsidiarity. Member States (MS) will have flexibility in the choice of environmental interventions to adapt them to their local needs. The project aimed to assess the extent to which measures included in exi...
Various human-induced environmental pressures such as eutrophication affect the Baltic Sea. A coupled hydrodynamic-biogeochemical model was used to assess the response of the Baltic Sea’s ecosystem to climate change and nutrient reduction. This model was run with different settings and observati...
The European Commission launches this year’s competition to reward sustainable European cities! The title of European Green Capital is awarded every year to a European city for its commitment to environmental, social and economic sustainability. This year, the European Commission is launching th...
As part of a series of evaluation of the Common agricultural policy (CAP) against its general objective of sustainable management of natural resources and climate action, the evaluation support study of the impact of the CAP on soil identified the activities impacting soil quality and reviewed t...
This summary guide seeks to support the role of public authorities in the European Union in ensuring that farmers and other rural land-managers comply with their environmental obligations. It was prepared by the Environment Directorate-General of the European Commission and is not binding. It su...