Amsterdam bans creation of new hotels
Another piece in the overall strategy to reduce tourist flows to the city
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.
However, this option will not yet be available for the upcoming European Parliament elections in June
Two years after also being the first European country to decriminalize prostitution
Silesian is spoken by about half a million people in the south of the country
People in both cities got to sit together both in person and virtually
However, this option will not yet be available for the upcoming European Parliament elections in June
The tool helps identify undeclared swimming pools and garden sheds
In case they have a patch of unoccupied land that they don’t know what to do with
The scheme is primarily aimed at daily commuters
The tests are also experimenting with a charging point that is easier to maintain
The scheme is primarily aimed at daily commuters
People in both cities got to sit together both in person and virtually
The ritual is more than 1000 years old and was originally performed by the Doges
Urban dwellers across the EU are having a say in making their surroundings friendlier to people and the environment.
Forests in the EU can help green the European construction industry and bolster a continent-wide push for architectural improvements.
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Catch up with some recommendations for the 2024 European Capital of Culture programme from the mayor of Tartu
An interview with the ICLEI regional director for Europe аfter the close of COP28
An interview with a member of the No Hate Speech Network team