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📢How is Europe doing in ensuring safer and more sustainable
#chemicals
?
Join us on Friday 17 May for our special
#EEAAskanExpert
🎙️on this important subject where we will be joined by experts from
@EU_ECHA
Today on
#EuropeDay
take the time to enjoy our shared and diverse
#environment
&
#nature
🦉🌳🐞around us.
Find out more about what the 🇪🇺 is doing and specifically what the EEA does to help protect and preserve our climate and environment.
📢Applications are now OPEN for expressions of interest for experts to be appointed as members of the EEA
#ScientificCommittee
The EEA is organising this call to appoint members with expertise nine thematic areas - for more information and how to apply:
What is the
#OneHealth
approach?
Europe is facing increasingly complex threats to our
#health
& wellbeing. They are also interconnected with the health of animals, plants and wider ecosystems.
5 EU agencies are working together to respond to the threats:
⚠️ Extinction rates are 100-1000 times higher than in pre-human times with 13 million hectares of rainforests being lost every year.
The
#EUGreenDeal
is redesigning consumption & production patterns to reverse this.
Discover why nature needs you, and why we need nature too 👇
Climate action cannot be taken for granted🌍
To continue making 🇪🇺 greener, then
#UseYourVote
in the
#EUelections2024
🗳️
📅June 6-9, 2024
➡️Vote in your country of origin, from abroad or in the EU country you live in.
More info:
📢Calling all
#climateadaptation
practitioners!
The 'Climate-ADAPT' platform is currently doing an evaluation to improve its platforms for users.
We need your feedback on content, function and dissemination.
You can take the short survey here:
Are you curious to know what
#cities
in
#Europe
are doing to adapt to
#climatechange
? Check out our just published report on
#urbanadaptation
that includes many successful cases from small and large cities in Europe:
Climate change is hitting urban areas hard.
Cities are denser and more populated, making them more vulnerable to extreme weather events like heatwaves and floods.
A🆕
@EUEnvironment
report shows how 🇪🇺 cities are building climate resilience.
Read➡️:
European
#cities
are adapting to
#climatechange
for example through
#urbanplanning
and building codes, economic incentives and insurance, and early-warning systems and information campaigns.
Our new report on
#urbanadaptation
in Europe ➡️
Today, a ministerial meeting in 🇱🇻 Riga marks 5⃣0⃣ years of cooperation to protect the
#BalticSea
under the Helsinki Convention &
@HELCOMInfo
, established in 1974
The 🇪🇺 supports countries to cooperate closely to improve the state of the 🌊 Baltic 👉
Today at the
#HM24
, we discussed the future for a competitive, sustainable and circular 🇪🇺 textile industry.
The EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles 👖👟 provides a clear pathway to achieve that 👉
#CircularEconomy
#ReFashionNow
🇪🇺 🤝 🇨🇳 agreed on a new joint roadmap on
#CircularEconomy
It includes specific actions on plastics, battery value chains & remanufacturing.
This is a crucial step towards achieving a circular economy & our environmental global ambitions
#ForOurPlanet
👉
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Today, on International Noise Awareness Day, we would like to remind you that noise harms human health. Check our Urban noise map to find out if you live in a city and an area where you are exposed to unsafe levels: