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Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation: the Commission publishes a guidance to implement new rules

A guidance to "provide further clarity and support to businesses, Member States, and stakeholders to ensure a smooth transition to a more circular and competitive packaging value chain": this is how Jessika Roswall, Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy…

Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): European bodies, Policies & Regulation, Chemicals / plastics
• Article # 435965
• Published on 30/03/26 at 16:30

MOL and Hitachi sign Memorandum of Understanding to convert used ship into floating data center

Mitsui O.S.L Lines (MOL), Hitachi and Hitachi Systems announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for the development, operation, and commercialization of a "Floating Data Center" (FDC) converted from a second-hand vessel, on 30/03/2026. Based on this MOU, the companies will conduct…

Domain(s): Mobilities
• Category(ies): Manufacturers , Circularity, Production / Construction, …
• Article # 435995
• Published on 30/03/26 at 15:30

Revision of the Water Framework Directive: "It will affect the resilience of water services" (EurEau)

"Water service providers are very concerned that the Water Framework Directive (WFD) revision will lead to a weakening of its goals and requirements and, hence, affect the resilience of water services", EurEau writes in a position paper, published on 27/03/26. They add that "while the…

Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): Service providers, Policies & Regulation, Ocean / Water
• Article # 435941
• Published on 30/03/26 at 13:30

Tyres: changes to eco-organisation specifications to support retreading (French Journal Officiel)

The specifications of the eco-organisations and coordinating bodies for the extended producer responsibility (EPR) tyre sector have been amended by the order of 25/03/2026, published in the Journal Officiel of 27/03. This order provides for "financial support for tyre retreading operations in…

Domain(s): Mobilities
• Category(ies): Manufacturers , National bodies, Circularity, …
• Article # 435895
• Published on 30/03/26 at 10:00

Agenda: events not to be missed between 30/03 and 03/04/2026

This week's highlight will be the Agriculture and Fisheries Council, which will take place in Brussels on Monday. Many green industry events will happen in Paris this week, including SITL, the International Transport and Logistics Exhibition, the ChangeNOW 2026 Conference and the French…

Domain(s): Energies, Mobilities, Agrifood, Environment
• Category(ies): Essentials
• Article # 435841
• Published on 30/03/26 at 09:31

EU ETS: NGOs call on the College to preserve"the invalidation clause of the Market stability reserve"

"We call on the College of Commissioners to preserve the invalidation clause of the ETS Market Stability Reserve and uphold a market-based price signal for carbon emissions that drives investment and innovation, while maintaining environmental integrity", declare NGOs in a joint-letter, addressed…

Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): Essentials, Associations & NGOs, Decarbonisation , …
• Article # 435823
• Published on 27/03/26 at 17:22

Norway and France renew their partnership to decarbonise European industry

"France and Norway have updated their collaboration in favour of green industry and signed a memorandum of understanding on critical metals to continue to accelerate the ecological transition and thus strengthen Europe's industrial sovereignty", announced the French Ministry of Industry on…

Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): National bodies, Decarbonisation , Biodiversity, …
• Article # 435847
• Published on 27/03/26 at 17:00

"European policies are favourable to the development of green chemistry" (Caroline Petigny, Afyren)

"There's no reason to continue producing molecules from petroleum when nature knows how to do it. Afyren reproduces, on an industrial scale, a natural process based on the fermentation of sugar beet by-products to manufacture 100% biobased products in a biomimetic approach", explained Caroline…

Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): Producers, Research & innovation, Chemicals / plastics
• Article # 435820
• Published on 27/03/26 at 16:21

Medef: an operational guide for businesses to help them finance biodiversity

The aim of the guide to financing biodiversity, published by Medef, the largest employer federation in France, on 25/03/2026, is "to ensure that French businesses see financing biodiversity as an accessible, pragmatic approach that creates opportunities for them and for the ecosystems and regions…

Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): Trade unions & federations, Climate adaptation & resilience, Skills & Employment, …
• Article # 435810
• Published on 27/03/26 at 15:30

Climate: "The end of the Winter Olympics seems inevitable, but remains unthinkable" (J.Maillet)

"The end of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games seems inevitable, but as long as no country has given up due to the impossibility of staging the Games, whether because of too strong a thaw, excessive heat during the event or the technical inability to stage the events, this possibility will…

Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): Academic, Climate adaptation & resilience, Research & innovation, …
• Article # 435756
• Published on 27/03/26 at 15:00