2025: Europe’s largest solar farm will operate in Portugal
It will supply electricity to a population twice the city of Porto
For this purpose, special ecological corridors will be created for the pollinators to travel safely
There’s a new buzzword in the EU bureaucratic parlance and it’s “Buzz Lines” (excuse the pun). The intriguing term apparently refers to a network of eco-corridors, which will be set aside for bees so they can move safely all across Europe without obstacles.
It's all part of a seven-year plan laid out to increase insect monitoring across the 27 member states and to stop or even reverse their population decline by 2030. Currently, one in three bee and butterfly species is threatened with extinction. Pesticides, pollution and climate change are among the risk factors facing pollinating insects.
The EU Commission plan is actually a revision of a 2018 initiative that sought to improve knowledge and public awareness of pollinator decline. The new initiative aims to tackle the causes behind the pollinators’ decline in numbers. In that light, there are five pillars that will support the strategy:
Pollinators are an integral part of healthy ecosystems. Without them, many plant species would decline and eventually disappear along with the organisms that depend on them, which would have serious ecological, social and economic implications.
With around 80% of crop and wild-flowering plants depending on animal pollination, pollinator loss is one of the largest threats to EU nature, human well-being and food security, as it compromises sustainable agricultural production.
Today's geopolitical context has further strengthened the need to make the European food system more resilient, including through protecting and restoring pollinating insects.
It will supply electricity to a population twice the city of Porto
The solution which has been progressing to that end for the past several years proves that there can be a circular business model
The route goes between Differdande and Niederkorn
The latest generation of public transport vehicles are taking over European streets
In fact, the more precise term is post-sorting, and it cuts down CO2 emissions by 75%
Plzeňský Prazdroj’s new brewery warehouse launched an automated rail system capable of storing more beer and loading it onto trucks much more efficiently
It will supply electricity to a population twice the city of Porto
The solution which has been progressing to that end for the past several years proves that there can be a circular business model
Local authorities say that this is a good way to preserve the 15th-century market building while providing a public service
Phoenix des Lumières will be an ongoing exhibition until 31 December 2023
The food people eat during the day can have an enormous impact on their habits at home
2020 and 2021 were zero years for these types of events, but the break has not diminished its reputation
The new itineraries are part of the DiscoverEU programme, which lets 18-year-olds travel by train between important European sites
The European Commission has published its first progress report charting the achievements of the socio-cultural movement that combines beauty, inclusion and sustainability
The 2023 edition of the creative initiative promises to be bigger, bolder and more inclusive
Veni Markovski’s take on dealing with disinformation in the European Union's poorest country – Bulgaria
A conversation with the mayor of Utrecht on the occasion of her mission to COP27
A conversation with the President of the European Committee of the Regions, about energy, climate change and the underrated importance of cohesion policy