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December

Soil Atlas 2024

Online discussion Thursday, 05. December 2024

Global and local perspectives on a vital, high-in-demand resource
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December

Ensuring Human Rights and Environmental Accountability in EU Raw Materials Policies

Event Tuesday, 10. December 2024 in Brussels
10

December

Boom to Burden: Perpetual Impacts of Mining

Panel discussion Tuesday, 10. December 2024 in Brussels

Side Event of the EU Commission Raw Materials Week 2024

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After the COP16 Biodiversity Conference in Colombia: What remains and what comes next

Kommentar

The UN Conference on Biological Diversity (COP16) in Cali, Colombia, ended in early November with important resolutions, but no agreement on the key issue of financing biodiversity conservation.

By Evelyn Hartig

Rede von Susana Muhamad, kolumbianische Umweltministerin, bei der Eröffnung der 16. UN-Biodiversitätskonferenz (COP16) in Cali, Kolumbien, vor einer großen Leinwand mit Konferenzdetails sowie den Flaggen Kolumbiens und der UN.

CBD COP16 in Colombia: Focus on the future of biodiversity

Commentary

The 16th UN conference on biodiversity in Colombia faces the challenge of delivering results for the conservation of biological diversity. In addition to financing strategies, measures to protect biodiversity and ecosystems are urgently needed.

By Evelyn Hartig and Victor da Silva Souza

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Is it utopian to insist on a good life for all in the face of the climate crisis? No more unrealistic than the utopia of endless growth on a finite planet on the backs of the weakest. On the road to a climate-just world” describes ways to create a sustainable world worth living in for everyone - and exposes false hopes and dangerous false solutions.

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Rebuilding Credibility in EU Enlargement Policy

Policy Paper

The European Union has many candidates for membership. It is currently conducting negotiations with Albania, North Macedonia, Ukraine, Moldova and Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, the accession processes are complicated. The current policy paper on the reform debate analyses the arguments for and against a rapid enlargement of the EU and provides recommendations for policy-makers.

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Shaping a Future-Fit Common Agricultural Policy

Policy Paper

For more than half a century, the European Union's agricultural policy has focussed primarily on increasing agricultural productivity and the cost-effective production of food. This policy paper provides recommendations for action that are largely possible without amending the EU treaties.

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Ensuring Human Rights and Environmental Accountability in EU Raw Materials Policies

Boom to Burden: Perpetual Impacts of Mining

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