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The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is delivering an Opinion on new EU soil legislation, focusing on local and regional actions. Here we interview the rapporteur for this Opinion, Frida Nilsson, CoR member for Lidköping Municipality, Sweden.

Current food practices can significantly contribute to climate change. On World Food Day, the SU-EATABLE LIFE project shows how we can create sustainable, eco-friendly food systems which are good for us - and good for the planet.

New statistics show that the EU Ecolabel is flourishing in numbers, with almost 90 000 certified goods and services.

The Commission has published two tools to enhance the EU’s preparedness to combat droughts and water scarcity.

Over 350 companies, financial institutions, governments and representatives from academia and civil society are convening to discuss how businesses will deliver on nature commitments.

The Commission has adopted a set of policy recommendations for Member States to improve and incentivise the return of used and waste mobile phones, tablets, laptops and their chargers.

The winners of the European Green Cities 2025 Awards are Vilnius (Lithuania), Viladecans (Spain) and Treviso (Italy).

Issue 610: Remote mapping shows promise as a cost-efficient way to roughly predict lichen communities in European boreal forests, finds a study of aspen trees in southern Finland.

Issue 610: Urban agriculture needs to be formally recognised in policy agendas to incentivise and regulate growing practices at different scales, suggests a new analysis of progress in four European cities.