Justice & Paix

Het Nederlands-Belgische spoorbedrijf European Sleeper zal in februari en maart volgend jaar een nachttrein laten rijden tussen Brussel en Venetië. Het is de bedoeling om die trein 2 keer per week te laten rijden. Naast de eindbestemming Venetië zal de nieuwe verbinding ook halt houden in onder meer de Beierse hoofdstad München, de Oostenrijkse stad Innsbruck en het Italiaanse wintersportoord Bolzano. European Sleeper spoort nu al 3 keer per week tussen Brussel en de Tsjechische hoofdstad Praag, via de Duitse hoofdstad Berlijn.

From farmers to disaster survivors, new plaintiffs and progressing lawsuits are putting pressure on industry polluters.

Duizenden gevallen van hoge bloeddruk, diabetes en dementie kunnen gelinkt worden aan de vervuiling rond luchthavens. Dat zegt onderzoek van CE Delft. Ook rond Brussels Airport is de milieu-impact groot.

The law will come into force in national parks within two years and in all of the country’s marine protected areas by 2030

We owe all children a planet Earth as wonderful as the one we have enjoyed!

European nations must end the repression and criminalisation of peaceful protest and urgently take action to cut emissions in line with the Paris climate agreement to limit global heating to 1.5C, the UN special rapporteur on environmental defenders has said.

In Munich I heard both Ukrainians and Alexei Navalny’s widow tell us why Putin must be defeated, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash

European and US oil and gas majors have made profits of more than a quarter of a trillion dollars since Russia invaded Ukraine, according to a new analysis by Global Witness marking two years since the conflict began. After posting record gains in 2022 off the back of soaring energy prices, the big five fossil fuel companies paid shareholders an unprecedented $111 billion in 2023. In the hottest year ever recorded, this figure is some 158 times what was pledged to vulnerable nations at last year’s COP28 climate summit.

EUCityCalc has officially launched its free, open source online platform that allows local councils and other stakeholders to visualise and simulate low-carbon scenarios for their towns and cities, as well as to assess the trade-offs related to available choices.

La France a développé un arsenal législatif pour lutter contre le gaspillage et favoriser la transition verte. Mais quiconque fait ses courses aujourd’hui dans le pays peut constater que la société, les entreprises et les individus ne sont pas tout à fait à la hauteur de ses lois citées en exemple à l’étranger.

UK has led the way, with countries across the continent making mass arrests, passing draconian new laws and labelling activists as eco-terrorists

In recent years, droughts have had substantial impacts on nearly all regions of the EU, affecting several critical systems such as agriculture, water supply, energy, river transport, and ecosystems. These impacts are projected to further increase due to climate change. While some of the drivers of drought risk are well known for some systems and regions, drought risks and impacts remain hard to assess and quantify. The European Drought Risk Atlas is a step towards impact-based drought assessment and can support the development and implementation of drought management and adaptation policies and actions. It characterises how drought hazard, exposure and vulnerability interact and affect different but interconnected systems: agriculture, public water supply, energy, riverine transport, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems. The Atlas presents both a conceptual and quantitative approach to drought risk for these systems. The conceptual drought risk models (impact chains) are the result of a review of the literat

De blootstelling van de Europeanen aan de chemische stof bisphenol A ligt veel te hoog en vormt een gezondheidsrisico voor miljoenen mensen. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van het Europees Milieuagentschap (EEA).

BP, Shell, and TotalEnergies found to be leading a multi-pronged influencing campaign that could lock in fossil gas across both continents, with push back coming from more renewables-focused European energy players.

De zomer van vorig jaar was de warmste ooit gemeten in Europa en heeft geleid tot 61.000 vroegtijdige overlijdens. Volgens een analyse in wetenschappelijk tijdschrift Nature Medicine werden vooral vrouwen van boven de 80 slachtoffer van de hitte.

Europe at the forefront of the climate challenge The European Union is a global leader in the transition to a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions economy. Playing a crucial role in international political efforts to tackle the climate challenge, Europe is one of the main players moving with urgency toward the Paris Agreement objectives. Now, with a European Green Deal and a commitment to reduce CO2 emissions by 55% by 2030, Europe has a clear, tangible roadmap to deliver such ambition. A wave of mass mobilisation, from climate marches to school strikes, is pressuring politicians to go further and faster. As a free-market democracy and the world’s largest single market, Europe is a key laboratory for innovative business and progressive social reform. It promises to bring groundbreaking change to globalised industries, from shipping to finance to aviation. Europe also has the power to demonstrate to the world that tackling climate change can go hand in hand with economic growth, social justice and a better qualit

De la santé à l’éducation, le bond en avant technologique actuel peut déboucher sur une amélioration de nos conditions de vie, veut croire ce philosophe spécialiste de l’IA dans le journal britannique “The New European”.

In de zomer van vorig jaar kampte Europa met een van de ergste droogtes sinds de metingen. Dit jaar zit er niet veel beterschap in.

We owe all children a planet Earth as wonderful as the one we have enjoyed!

The total concentration of greenhouse gases and other forcing agents, including cooling aerosols, reached 465 parts per million CO2 equivalents in 2020. This is around the peak level that the International Panel on Climate Change states 'should not be exceeded if — with a 67% likelihood and not allowing a temperature overshoot — the global temperature increase is to be limited to 1.5oC above pre-industrial levels'. When allowing for a temperature overshoot, the peak level could be exceeded in 2024. The peak concentrations corresponding to a temperature increase of 2oC by 2100 could be exceeded between 2027 and 2030.