EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles - List page

Issue 599: European countries have developed their own methods of risk assessing contaminated sites. A comparison of Swedish (qualitative) and German (quantitative) methods shows that they can produce vastly different results for the same sites.

Issue 599: Scientists in the USA have harnessed abundant environmental data to develop machine-learning models that can predict bacteria levels in beach water, up to three days in advance. Agencies could use this information to manage health risk to beach users.

The Commission welcomes the initiative and acknowledges the importance of the ECI, in particular as the interlinked crises of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss constitute growing challenges for Europe's agriculture and food security.

Today the Commission published an assessment of the marine environment monitoring programmes reported by the Member States.

Issue 598: Trees growing in cities world-wide may be at risk from climate change. Urban greening must use species that can cope with future conditions to secure benefits.

Issue 598: UK scientists find two previously stable rocky stretches of coastline are set to erode faster than they have in thousands of years, due to climate-driven sea-level rise.

Issue 598: Biobased polymers, designed to be used instead of fossil-based plastics, are growing in use worldwide.

Issue 598: Disposable face masks used during the COVID-19 pandemic limited viral transmission but created a plastic waste disposal problem. This study explored whether single use masks remain effective if worn multiple times with or without washing.

Issue 598: Tropical deforestation for land conversion to agriculture is a known problem. Through a novel method which maps changes in biodiversity in production areas, researchers have highlighted the impacts of Brazilian soy exports to Germany.