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Agenda: events not to be missed between 27/04 and 01/05/2026

This week's highlight will be the IMO MEPC 84 meeting taking place in London from Monday to Friday. The shipping sector is following the conference very closely, as a "way forward" on a global framework to decarbonise shipping could come out of this meeting, after the postponement of the…
Domain(s): Energies, Mobilities, Agrifood, Environment
• Category(ies): Essentials
• Article # 439160
• Published on 27/04/26 at 09:54
G7 Environment: adoption of seven declarations to "build useful convergences" (MTE/France)

"We adopted seven declarations, with all the G7 partners, but also with South Korea, Armenia and Mongolia, who were our guests", declared Monique Barbut, the French Minister for Ecological Transition, Biodiversity and International Negotiations on Climate and Nature, at the end of the two days of…
Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): National bodies, Climate adaptation & resilience, Biodiversity
• Article # 439181
• Published on 27/04/26 at 09:30
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Santa Marta Conference on ending fossil fuels: what NGOs call for ahead of the meeting

As the first International Conference on the Transition Away from Fossil Fuels opens in Santa Marta (Colombia) under the auspices of the Netherlands and Colombia, NGOs and academics called States to action and analysed the possible outcomes. News Tank gathered their statements. 46 nations will…
Domain(s): Energies
• Category(ies): Essentials, Associations & NGOs, International bodies, …
• Article # 438997
• Published on 24/04/26 at 18:00
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Launch of two pilot circularity projects in China, co-funded by the EU and Germany

The delegation of the EU to China has announced the launch of two circularity pilot projects in Shanghai and Jiaxing on 23/04/2026. The projects, co-funded by the EU and Germany, target the plastics recovered from end-of-life vehicles and single-use plastic packagings for food and beverage…
Domain(s): Mobilities
• Category(ies): European bodies, National bodies, Circularity, …
• Article # 439106
• Published on 24/04/26 at 17:00
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Port of Antwerp: an NGOs coalition against "what could become Europe’s biggest plastic production site"

A coalition of NGOs brought two legals challenges arguing that the INEOS' Project One, which "could become Europe’s biggest plastic production site in the Port of Antwerp, shouldn't go ahead", the association said on 24/04/2026. During the hearing at the Flemish Council for Permit Disputes on…
Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): Associations & NGOs, Producers, Justice, …
• Article # 439123
• Published on 24/04/26 at 16:00
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"Climate adaptation is now an operational matter for companies" (V.Delval / Le Lab Impact by LCL)

"For companies, particularly in the waste sector, climate change is not a distant prospect: its consequences are being felt now, be it in terms of fire risk and employees' working conditions, for instance. Climate adaptation is now an operational matter for companies. That's why we've launched Lab…
Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): Banking & insurance, Climate adaptation & resilience, Financing & funding, …
• Article # 439127
• Published on 24/04/26 at 15:00
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Pesticides in water: France environnement appeals to the French government

France Environnement has lodged an appeal with the Paris Administrative Court against the French government for failing to protect water catchments from pesticides, Jean-François Julliard, CEO of the NGO, announced on Linkedin on 23/04/2026. Water catchments are structures "from which raw water…
Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): Associations & NGOs, Justice, Water, …
• Article # 439113
• Published on 24/04/26 at 13:00
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Shipping industry calls for a global framework to decarbonise shipping before IMO-MEPC meeting in London

"Shipping is a global industry by its very nature, and it can only be decarbonised effectively through global regulations agreed at the IMO", declares Joe Kramek, CEO of the World Shipping Council (WSC) on 21/04/2026. "The maritime sector and fuel producers urgently need clarity and regulatory…
Domain(s): Mobilities
• Category(ies): Trade unions & federations, Decarbonisation , Freight & Logistics
• Article # 438916
• Published on 24/04/26 at 11:00
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FR / Sébastien Lecornu's Cabinet: Manon Meary, Industry, Innovation and Ecological Transition Advisor

Manon Meary has been appointed Industry, Innovation and Ecological Transition Adviser in the Economy, Finance, Industry and Digital Division of the Cabinet of Sébastien Lecornu, French Prime Minister, by an order dated 21/04/2026 published in the Official Journal on 24/04/2026. She takes up her…
Domain(s): Energies
• Category(ies): National bodies, Skills & Employment, Policies & Regulation
• Article # 439082
• Published on 24/04/26 at 09:54
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"The major success of the G7 Environment: being able to negotiate texts together" (MTE to News Tank)

"The major success of the G7 Environment is that we managed to discuss and negotiate texts together for the protection of the environment, despite the individual positions of each of the countries and the ongoing conflicts", the French Ministry of Ecological Transition told News Tank on…
Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): Essentials, International bodies, Climate adaptation & resilience, …
• Article # 439031
• Published on 23/04/26 at 17:52