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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
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"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
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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
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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
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Vacant position at the JRC in Seville for site director and director of “Fair and sustainable Economy”

A vacancy for the function of director to lead Directorate “Fair and Sustainable Economy” of the Joint Research Center in Seville, which will also assume the functions of Site Director, is published in the Official Journal of the EU, on 27/03/2026. The mission of this Directorate (JRC.B)…
Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): European bodies, Skills & Employment, Climate / carbon
• Article # 435753
• Published on 27/03/26 at 12:32
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FR / Comité National de la Biodiversité : 9 new members appointed

9 new members have been appointed to the French Comité National de la Biodiversité (CNB), by order of the Minister for Ecological Transition of 17/03/2026, published in the Journal officiel of 27/03. Each member, titular as well as alternate, is appointed for five years. Created by the law…
Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): National bodies, Climate adaptation & resilience, Skills & Employment, …
• Article # 435755
• Published on 27/03/26 at 11:36
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The EU and Japan decide to deepen their climate cooperation five years after their "Green Alliance"

"Working together towards achieving climate neutrality and tackling shared economic and geopolitical challenges": this is what Japanese and European senior officials decided at the High-Level Dialogue on Climate Change between the EU and Japan in Brussels on 24/03/2026. "In the context of the…
Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): Essentials, European bodies, National bodies, …
• Article # 435630
• Published on 27/03/26 at 10:01
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Norway: tax exemption for waste incineration under the ETS deemed compliant (EU)

Norway's introduction of an exemption from excise duty on waste incineration in companies covered by the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) has been found to be in compliance by the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) Surveillance Authority, in a decree published in the Official Journal of the EU…
Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): European bodies, National bodies, Decarbonisation , …
• Article # 435658
• Published on 26/03/26 at 17:00
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ETS / incineration: "The competitiveness of district heating jeopardized" (P. Guillaume, Fedene)

"If we increase the cost of waste incineration with the ETS, this will be reflected either in the cost of waste treatment or in the selling price of heat, and will therefore be passed on to citizens. What's more, it will jeopardize the competitiveness of heating networks, and therefore their…
Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): Essentials, Trade unions & federations, Carbon capture & mitigation, …
• Article # 435633
• Published on 26/03/26 at 14:56
European Parliament: adoption of new measures to reduce water pollution, including "forever chemicals"

The European Parliament has adopted new measures aimed at reducing groundwater and surface waters pollution and improving EU water quality standards, at second reading, during a plenary session on 26/03/2026. This decision is following the deal reached on 23/09/2025 between the co-legislators…
Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): European bodies, Policies & Regulation, Water, …
• Article # 435575
• Published on 26/03/26 at 13:58