Our economy comes to a halt – so does pollution
The current corona outbreak is a crisis in every sense. It destroys lifes, subsistences and restricts the life of billions.
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Wilderness Policy
European Wilderness Policy is impacting the designation and protection of Wilderness.
Wild forests protect the climate
There is a wide consent that forests are the most efficient tool to fight the climate crisis. However, the question
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UK to rule out badger culling
Since 2013, the British government culls badgers to control the Bovine Tuberculosis (bTB). bTB is a serious disease in livestock
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“Emergency” wolf and bear cull to continue in Slovenia?
The Slovenian Comission of the National Council for farming has passed a law to cull 30 wolves and 220 bears.
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Wilderness needs size
Wilderness in Europe is interpreted as an area governed by natural processes. And natural processes need space to freely take
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Romania is unable to stop the logging mafia – the European Commission steps in
This February, the European Commission announced that it is taking legal action to stop the vast illegal logging that has
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Percentage of European forest cover is misguiding information
Our planet is at the edge of ecological collapse. One of the fundamental reasons is several centuries of deforestation and
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UNESCO World Heritage site renomination process in Slovakia
UNESCO World Heritage site of the “Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathian and Other Regions of Europe” is
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The history of European forest exploitation
European forests dramatically suffered not only in the last decades but ever since the development of agriculture and permanent settlement
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The future of the fossil fuel industry
The fossil fuel industry must be shut downs, is the title of the Acid News newsletter editorial, published on December
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UN publishes a draft plan to halt biodiversity loss by 2030
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity have published the first draft of the Framework of 2030 targets to reduce biodiversity
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Make Europe coal free by 2030
Several national governments have announced their intention to phase out use of coal. A total of 72.8 gigawatts of coal
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Lack of urgency characterizes climate change conference
“Utterly inadequate,” are the words chosen by the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to describe present efforts to reach emission
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Historic European Green Deal launches
On December 11th, the European Commission released its plan to make Europe the first climate neutral continent by 2050 –
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2019 – a year characterized by climate emergency
The Oxford English Dictionary has just awarded its word of the year: climate emergency. The rise of this term has
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BEECH POWER workshop on MARISCO in Slovenia
As a part of the Interreg Central Europe BEECH POWER project, a MARISCO workshop took place in Slovenia on the
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EU Parliament declares climate emergency
On the 28th of November, the European Parliament officially declared the climate emergency in Europe. With 429 votes for and
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Sweden proposed constitutional change to protect nature
It would be the first of its kind in Europe, a constitutional amendment that protects nature from humans. This is
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Oil companies under pressure
To keep the world’s average temperature below two degrees, the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016. To achieve this goal,
Read MoreWe call the climate crisis by its name
The climate crisis is the biggest threat humanity has ever faced. Still, politicians around the world fail to take necessary
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