Climate models around the world are sending out an unprecedented warning: the planet is facing one of the most intense and destructive El Niño events in modern history. The latest projections show that warming in the Pacific Ocean in (viac…)

Seventeenth report UNEP on the emissions gap (Emissions Gap Report 2026) brings a chilling balance sheet: the opportunity to keep global warming below 1.5°C without exceeding it or with only a minimal overshoot is irretrievably gone. Decades (viac…)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the UN body that assesses climate science for governments – has opened a new draft report for peer review Working Group II. This part of the report focuses on (viac…)

Climate action concerns each of us, while acting confidently in a changing world requires the right skills for the present and the future. Our world is changing dynamically and the impacts of climate change are becoming more frequent, as evidenced by another summer of extreme weather in Europe. (viac…)

Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) published on October 2, 2026 new significant challenge under the Horizon Europe framework programme, which is entirely dedicated to nature conservation and biodiversity restoration. The European Commission has allocated (viac…)

Europe's climate is changing faster than any other region in the world, bringing with it increasingly frequent and intense extreme weather events. The summer of 2026 was exceptionally hot and dry in Europe, with June being the warmest on record. (viac…)

The September package of legislative measures and proposals from the European Union brings fundamental shifts in the areas of sustainability, consumer protection, ESG reporting and energy efficiency. EU regulators are responding to the need for a fairer green transition, reducing (viac…)

National Nature Restoration Plan (NPOP SR) is intended to be a key strategic document that will determine the direction of the restoration of the Slovak landscape, rivers, forests and wetlands until 2050. Although it is based on the European Regulation on the Restoration of (viac…)

The European Union has set itself the goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 as part of the European Green Deal (European Green Deal). The key principle of this transformation is to leave no place or person behind (leave no person and no place behind). New study Joint research (viac…)

Traditional environmental impact assessments are often limited to direct emissions from product use – for example, fuel consumption when driving a car or electricity consumption when operating appliances. Comprehensive (viac…)

Cities are now on the front lines of climate change and are fundamentally shaping the health prospects of their residents. Rising temperatures and more frequent extreme weather events, particularly heat waves, pose a direct threat to the human body. (viac…)

Soil is the second largest carbon sink on our planet, yet in Europe today, 60 to 70 % of soil is in an unhealthy and degraded state. Long-term use of conventional agricultural practices (viac…)

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Member States of the European Union became fully aware of the urgent need to strengthen their defence capabilities and guarantee European security. This strategic shift culminated in the presentation of White Paper on European Defence – Preparedness 2030 in March 2025, which set (viac…)

Europe's cultural heritage and creative industries are at the forefront of the fight against the climate crisis. Through Horizon Europe, the European Union is investing tens of millions of euros in innovative projects that combine art, architecture, science and (viac…)

The European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the period 2023-2027 represents a fundamental shift in ambition in the field of environmental and climate protection. A comprehensive study prepared for the European Commission (viac…)

The transition from the FADN accounting network to the FSDN sustainability network brings new methodologies measuring carbon footprints at the farm level and linking spatial data with greenhouse gas emissions modeling. (viac…)

While virtually the entire world is warming significantly due to human-caused climate change, there is an area in the North Atlantic south of Greenland and Iceland that is bucking the trend and is even cooling. This unusual ocean (viac…)

From green roofs and wooden buildings to active citizen engagement, nine innovative projects show the way to sustainable, climate-neutral and resilient cities. Modern European cities are at the heart of the green and (viac…)

The year 2026 will go down in history as a particularly worrying milestone in the state of the Earth's atmosphere. Scientific findings published in report Atmosphere Watch 2026, developed by the European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) under the leadership of (viac…)

Artificial intelligence is often presented as an intangible software miracle that will solve the climate crisis and make the world more efficient. But behind this digital revolution is the most massive physical infrastructure in history – giant concrete data centers. (viac…)