Jun 29, 2023 | EU - Current Affairs
Proposal for a regulation on the sustainable use of plant protection products June last year, the Commission submitted a proposal of sustainable use of pesticides (SUR), which would repeal the Sustainable Pesticide Use Directive (SUD, Directive 2009/128/EC) [1]....
Jun 28, 2023 | EU - Current Affairs
What is IPM? Chemical pesticides have had a detrimental effect on the environment, causing water and soil contamination [2] and harm to surrounding plants and animals, as well as human health [1]. While pest management is crucial for farmers to ensure a viable...
Jun 28, 2023 | EU - Current Affairs
The EU commission has made its proposal back in November 2022. The Members and the Parliament have to agree on the rules before they come into force. As of now, the regulations will apply to passenger cars and light commercial vehicles from July 2025, and from July...
Jan 16, 2023 | EU - Current Affairs
Few houses, big significance: Lützerath, Garzweiler II and the German Coal Exit Lützerath is a small hamlet in the coal-rich and formerly industrial state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany. There were never more than 105 people living in the hamlet...
Jun 6, 2022 | EU - Current Affairs
“The Paris Agreement, adopted in December 2015 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) entered into force in November 2016 (“the Paris Agreement”). Its Parties have agreed to hold the increase in the global average...
Jun 5, 2022 | EU - Current Affairs
The prior regulation had a target of reducing EU emissions 30% below 2005 levels by 2030.In the original regulation, member states could borrow emissions for the following year and, if they over-performed in their emissions cuts, could ‘bank’ these...
