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Call for bioplastics recognition as key materials for a circular bioeconomy (EUBP)

European Bioplastics (EUBP), the association which represents 85 members of the bioplastics value chain in Europe, called on the European Commission, on 19/11/2025, to fully recognise biobased, biodegradable and compostable plastics as key materials for a circular bioeconomy under EU policy…
Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): European bodies, Trade unions & federations, Bioeconomy, …
• Article # 420358
• Published on 21/11/25 at 15:50
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First-of-a-kind Clean Trade and Investment Partnership signed between the EU and South Africa

"EU and South Africa advance cooperation on clean trade and investment", announced Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, António Costa, President of the European Council, and Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa, on 20/11/2025 in Johannesburg. This announcement was made…
Domain(s): Energies, Environment
• Category(ies): European bodies, National bodies, Decarbonisation , …
• Article # 420269
• Published on 21/11/25 at 10:12
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"Warming could be halved by 2040 if three climate actions were implemented" (Climate Action Tracker)

"If governments were to implement three key climate actions they already negotiated and agreed on in 2023 -tripling renewables, doubling energy efficiency, and acting to reduce methane emissions by 2030- they could cut global emissions by 18 billion tonnes in 2035 compared to current emission…
Domain(s): Energies, Agrifood, Environment
• Category(ies): Academic, Carbon capture & mitigation, Decarbonisation , …
• Article # 420249
• Published on 20/11/25 at 17:11
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Global Green Growth Institute / CIFOR-ICRAF: extension of partnership on nature-positive investments

To combine their strengths in the scientific research and the policy advisory, in order to accelerate Nature-Positive Investments for Forests and Landscapes on a global level: this is the goal of the MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) renewed between the GGGI (Global Green Growth Institute) and the…
Domain(s): Energies, Environment
• Category(ies): Academic, Banking & insurance, International bodies, …
• Article # 420166
• Published on 20/11/25 at 15:04
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Commission to amend the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation as part of its simplification effort

“Simpler, more efficient rules, and better aligned with market realities”: this is how the European Commission presented its amendment to the transparency framework for sustainable financial products, adopted in Brussels on 20/11/2025. The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, in force…
Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): European bodies, ESG & CSR, Financing & funding, …
• Article # 420049
• Published on 20/11/25 at 11:57
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EUDR: Council in favour of a one-year postponement and a simplification review clause

The Permanent Representatives Committee of the Council decided on 19/11/2025 in Brussels to postpone by one year, to 30/12/2026, the entry into force of the EUDR for medium and large operators. Member States met to reach an agreement on the Commission proposal presented on 21/10/2025. The…
Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): European bodies, Policies & Regulation, Biodiversity
• Article # 420119
• Published on 20/11/25 at 11:41
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COP30: "Europe will fully deliver on the New Collective Quantified Goal and on adaptation" (W. Hoekstra)

"I very much welcome the sense of urgency the Brazilian presidency is giving to the whole endeavor, because indeed, there is no time to waste. For the European Union, success here is about ambition, in particular in addressing the implementation and ambition gap. That has to be our starting point…
Domain(s): Environment
• Category(ies): European bodies, Carbon capture & mitigation, Climate adaptation & resilience, …
• Article # 420128
• Published on 20/11/25 at 11:17
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EU/Pesticides: "The Commission erred in law by extending the approval of active substances" (EU Court)

On 19/11/2025, the Court of Justice of the EU found the Commission had erred in law by extending the approval of active substances in several cases filed in 2022-2023 by NGOs PAN (Pesticide Action Network) Europe, Pollinis, and Aurelia Stiftung. Between 2022 and 2023, the Commission extended…
Domain(s): Agrifood, Environment
• Category(ies): European bodies, Policies & Regulation, Public health & nutrition, …
• Article # 420033
• Published on 19/11/25 at 17:46
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EU/ Pesticides: "More protection is needed, not less!" (PAN Europe's open letter to Jessika Roswall)

A letter to the European Commissioner for Environment, Jessika Roswall, has been sent by PAN (Pesticide Action Network) Europe on 18/11/2025, after the NGO viewed the DG Sante draft proposal for an Omnibus Regulation on Food and Feed Safety. In its letter, PAN Europe urges Jessika Roswall to block…
Domain(s): Agrifood, Environment
• Category(ies): Associations & NGOs, European bodies, Policies & Regulation, …
• Article # 419965
• Published on 19/11/25 at 16:00
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Removal of renewal of approval for all active substances proposed as a simplification measure (DG Health)

On 04/11/2025, Olivér Várhelyi, the European Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare proposed, in a draft simplification package to be presented by the end of the year 2025, to remove systematic periodic renewals of approval for all active substances, except candidates for substitution…
Domain(s): Agrifood, Environment
• Category(ies): European bodies, Policies & Regulation, Biodiversity, …
• Article # 420000
• Published on 19/11/25 at 15:30