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EU fertilizer targets are not enough to halve nitrogen surplus

By | August 26, 2025
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A study by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), published in Nature Food, shows that the EU's targets for reducing nitrogen surplus in soil by 2030 are insufficient. The EU Green Deal's "Farm to Fork" strategy aims for a 20 percent reduction in the use of chemical fertilizers to halve nutrient losses. However, calculations by the UFZ team show that this will only reduce the nitrogen surplus by 10… Read more »

EU project ShapingBio recommends measures for a stronger bioeconomy

By | August 26, 2025
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The EU project ShapingBio, coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI), has published a policy brief outlining key recommendations for promoting a sustainable and competitive bioeconomy in Europe. The aim is to support the European Commission in developing its new bioeconomy strategy to accelerate the transition to a climate-neutral, circular economy. The report calls for improved… Read more »

EU-US agreement: Europe's Green Deal is sacrificed for transatlantic trade

By | August 22, 2025
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The European Commission and the United States have issued a joint declaration establishing a new framework for transatlantic trade and investment. This move, which follows intensive negotiations between the EU and the new US administration under President Donald Trump, has been sharply criticized by environmental groups and experts. They fear significant weakening of environmental regulations that govern… Read more »

Against windmills: Bird conservationists have started their work in Malta

By | March 25, 2025
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Credits: Committee Against Bird Murder eV

With the start of bird migration in the Mediterranean, the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (Komitee gegen den Vogelmord e.V.) launched its annual operations in Malta at the beginning of March. Thanks to information provided by the committee, the police were able to apprehend ten poachers in March. Twenty-four clap nets and over 50 decoy birds were confiscated. Due to its strategic position in the Mediterranean, the Maltese archipelago plays a crucial role as… Read more »

Federal Motor Transport Authority issues more and more individual permits for monster pick-ups – German Environmental Aid sues for access to files

By | February 20, 2025
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Credits: Dirk Kortus, pixabay

According to the German Environmental Aid Association (DUH), the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) is increasingly granting individual approvals for the registration of oversized pickup trucks from the USA. The DUH criticizes this practice as disregarding both European safety and environmental standards. The KBA has so far ignored the DUH's requests to access the relevant documents under the Environmental Information Act (UIG). As a result, the DUH has now… Read more »

Energy transition feeds Chinese solar industry: EU manufacturers face bankruptcy

By | September 24, 2023
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Just like "Solarworld," owned by green profiteer Frank Asbeck, other European solar panel manufacturers are now facing bankruptcy. The reason: China is taking over the "energy transition" economy. From Auf1.info: The European photovoltaic association "Solarpower Europe" and the ESMC ("European Solar Manufacturing Council") have just sent an urgent letter to the European Commission and the EU Parliament. This is the unelected government of the EU with Ursula von der Leyen […] [The energy transition is fueling…] Read more »