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EU Green Week 2022 News (638)
RSS![Campaign poster depicting birds sitting on guitar headstock.](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2022-11/GRASSLIFE.jpg?itok=o3VJ3kCo)
GrassLIFE’s ‘Nature hasn’t cancelled anything!’ campaign has picked up several awards at the BalticBest 2021 marketing and advertising competition.
![Small vessel next to a drying lake](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-11/P058734-136230.jpg?itok=OpR-pKNe)
Cairo Water Week and the EU-Egypt Circular Economy conference were key occasions to discuss actions for the sustainable use of water.
![The figure present the eight steps to EMAS user's guide: plan and prepare, formulate an mission and a vision, develop an environmental programme, introduce an environmental management system, audit internally, write environment statement, audit externally, entry in the EMAS register](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-11/Linkedin-post-1488x777-final%281%29.png?itok=_Brp-Kl6)
This 3rd of November, the European Commission adopted a new version if the EMAS User’s Guide streamlining participation to EMAS.
![Aerial view of Congo river and forest area](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-10/GettyImages-1151471811.jpg?itok=X6TOyeps)
The new roadmap will result in a strengthened dialogue to address deforestation and forest degradation and work towards a sustainable forest economy.
![GCA_Monitoring Framework](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-09/GCA-icon-MONITORING-blue.png?itok=5hSGpnek)
The majority of Green City Accord cities will be able to report their baseline scenarios via the newly launched electronic platform.
![Circular economy and sustainable footwear - Kavat’s story](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-02/kuvat.png?itok=NmtocgfK)
Proudly awarded by the EU Ecolabel, Kavat has become one of the most eco-friendly footwear manufacturers in Europe.
![From fishnets to sunglasses: greening fishing & fashion](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-03/filfab.jpg?itok=uEXvr9J7)
Upcycling fishnets from local harbours into your favourite accessories.
![MissionZero](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-05/MissionZero..png?itok=-jYSurkJ)
Jeanologia's challenge is MissionZero: eliminate 100% of waste and pollution in textile finishing industry. Life ANHIDRA project is playing a crucial role in achieving it.
![More circular, less carbon: chemical recycling holds promise for wind-turbine blade waste](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-10/NA1500_shutterstock_1612511572.jpg?itok=l4xSScQh)
Issue 611: Disposing of complex and cumbersome wind turbine blades at the end of their lives is a key challenge facing the renewable energy sector. Researchers now identify a form of chemical recycling as the most circular and low-carbon solution.
![Copper from industrial pollution increases antibiotic resistance in forest floor soil bacteria](https://environment.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-10/NA1501_shutterstock_734383765.jpg?itok=pvaHpzAm)
Issue 611: Industrial heavy metal pollution in a Swedish forest induces resistance to metals in soil microbial communities, but also to tetracycline antibiotics, a new study concludes.