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In a passionate speech delivered recently at Columbia University in New York, the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, described the fight against climate change as the top priority for the 21st century. Furthermore, the election of Joe Biden as the next President of the United States raises hopes that climate action will now be more coordinated and ambitious. Meanwhile, the European Union is determined to push ahead with its Green Deal in a package of measures that aims to radically cut emissions ...

The European Union (EU) has been protecting the environment since the early 1970s, under the premise that economic prosperity and environmental protection are interdependent. Successive environment action programmes have set the framework for EU environmental policy. The seventh environment action programme, a binding decision adopted by the European Parliament and Council in 2013, covers the period from 2014 to 2020. Bearing the title 'Living well, within the limits of our planet', it seeks to achieve ...

As a contracting party to the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO), the European Union must transpose the binding conservation and management measures adopted by this organisation into EU law, so that they become applicable to EU fishing vessels. A provisional agreement of the Parliament and the Council on the first transposition of SPRFMO measures is scheduled for a plenary vote during the May II session.

Unlike the Arctic states, China has no territorial sovereignty and related sovereign rights to resource extraction and fishing in the Arctic. Faced with very limited rights as a non-Arctic state, China has been eager to design strategies to bridge the widening gap between the legal and institutional constraints in the Arctic and its growing Arctic interests. It has developed a self-defined Arctic identity as a 'near-Arctic state' and sought – and in 2013 gained – observer status in the Arctic Council ...

Il-politika ambjentali Ewropea hija bbażata fuq il-prinċipji tal-prekawzjoni, il-prevenzjoni, il-kontroll tat-tniġġis mis-sors tiegħu, u fuq il-prinċipju ta' "min iniġġes iħallas". Il-programmi ta' azzjoni ambjentali pluriennali jistabbilixxu l-qafas għal azzjoni fil-ġejjieni f'kull qasam tal-politika ambjentali. Dawn huma integrati fl-istrateġiji orizzontali u jitqiesu waqt in-negozjati ambjentali internazzjonali. L-aħħar iżda mhux l-anqas, l-implimentazzjoni hija kruċjali.

Il-modi ta' kif ir-riżorsi attwali u tal-passat intużaw wasslu għal livelli għoljin ta' tniġġis, għal degradazzjoni ambjentali u għal tnaqqis tar-riżorsi naturali. Il-Pjan Direzzjonali għal Ewropa b'Użu Effiċjenti tar-Riżorsi u l-Pakkett dwar l-Ekonomija Ċirkolari għandhom ibiddlu din ix-xejra, billi jittrasformaw l-ekonomija tal-UE f'waħda sostenibbli sal-2050. Il-politika tal-iskart tal-UE għandha storja twila u tradizzjonalment tiffoka fuq ġestjoni tal-iskart aktar sostenibbli fir-rigward tal-ambjent ...

L-akkwakultura Ewropea qiegħda tistaġna b'kuntrast maż-żieda fir-rati tal-produzzjoni tal-akkwakultura fuq livell dinji. Il-Kummissjoni ppubblikat żewġ komunikazzjonijiet bi strateġiji għall-iżvilupp tal-akkwakultura Ewropea, waħda fl-2002 u oħra fl-2009, biex tipprova tnaqqas din it-tendenza. L-istrateġija tal-2002 naqset milli żżid il-produzzjoni Ewropea, filwaqt li l-kriżi ekonomika globali laqtet is-suq u l-industrija tal-akkwakultura. Dan wassal għall-pubblikazzjoni tat-tielet komunikazzjoni ...

It-tkabbir sostenibbli jikkostitwixxi wieħed mill-objettivi ewlenin tal-Unjoni Ewropea. Quddiem l-iskarsezza globali tar-riżorsi naturali, l-isfida ewlenija għall-produtturi u għall-konsumaturi hija dik li "tagħmel aktar b'inqas". Biex tegħleb din l-isfida, l-Unjoni Ewropea introduċiet sensiela ta' politiki u inizjattivi intiżi li jiggarantixxu konsum u tkabbir sostenibbli. Dawn il-politiki għandhom itejbu l-prestazzjoni ambjentali kumplessiva tal-prodotti matul iċ-ċiklu sħiħ tal-ħajja tagħhom, jistimolaw ...

The workshop aimed to address topics concerning fully and partially self-financed agencies related to both BUDG and CONT committees’ competences. With regards of the agencies' resources, the workshop looked into the principles of fee setting, and 5% cut and the redeployment pool vs. the need to provide timely services to industry, which is paying for them. From the point of oversight, items for discussion included the question of discharge procedure for fully self-financed agencies, provisions ...

Parliament’s vote on a Commission proposal for a revised system of issuing and managing fishing authorisations is scheduled for the first February plenary session. The revision aims to improve monitoring and transparency of the EU external fishing fleet, regardless of the area and the framework in which it operates.