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Food consumption is responsible for most global water consumption and associated environmental consequences. Therefore, quantifying and monitoring the water footprint (WF) of food consumption patterns is relevant...

Monitoring has shown that summer levels of dissolved oxygen in lakes are declining. New analysis reveals that this is probably due to effects of global warming, and will be...

At the 2022 World Economic Forum, the Capitals Coalition, WBCSD, SBTN, Business for Nature, TNFD and WWF launched a set of high-level business actions (Assess, Commit, Transform...

UNEP-WCMC welcomes the launch of new private sector guidance on setting targets for nature, released today by a major global consortium of conservation and development organisations and finance and sustainability...

In January 2018, the European Commission adopted the first EU monitoring framework for the circular economy, aimed at tracking the progress of the EU and the Member States. Following the launch of the new...

The EU must continue its efforts to reduce consumption of materials and generation of waste to achieve a more circular economy according to the European Commission’s revised Circular Economy...

This new EEA briefing summarises the latest knowledge on how chemical pesticides impact our health and the environment and presents good practices to reduce their use and risk...

Despite progress in some EU Member States to reduce their use, pesticide pollution still poses significant risks to human health and the environment, according to a European...

Remarks by Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius at the Informal Environment Council

This webinar on "Tracking top biodiversity impact sectors with footprinting tool collaboration" held on April 13th 14:00 - 15:00 CET brings the results of the collaborative efforts...