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Sixteen projects selected for a grant under the Innovation Fund’s second call for small-scale projects have signed their grant agreement with the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA), the implementing body of the Fund. They will benefit from grants amounting to a total of around EUR 60 million, funded by revenues from the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS).

President Ursula von der Leyen attended the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris, France. The summit gathered heads of state and government, representatives of financial institutions, and representatives of the private sector and civil society who examined the interactions between multilateral development bank reform, mobilisation of private capital, climate finance, green infrastructure and solutions related to debt.

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Re-wilding forests with Eurasian lynx, boosting farming with hi-tech bio-stimulants and helping one of Europe’s biggest cities adapt to climate change are among the winning projects announced at the EU’s prestigious annual LIFE Awards.

Last month, in a nutshell

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Good morning and welcome to today’s press review.

o EU countries have backed more allowances for nuclear energy and the weakening of a law to protect biodiversity amid an increasingly heated fightback against Brussels’ green agenda.

A late proposal to extend subsidies for coal plants has upset European Union countries' plans to approve today a reform of the bloc's power market, which was designed to shift the electricity system towards cleaner energy.

o EU ambassadors on Friday agreed to new rules boosting green energy, overcoming a French-led deadlock by offering Paris a concession on hydrogen and nuclear energy.

o Temperatures of nearly 45C recorded, with people over 60 particularly at risk, as deaths strike Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states.

o Thanks to the bloc’s determination to position Europe as the global hero of climate action, Brussels is well on its way to alienating and impoverishing a large part of rural Europe.

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Before a fundamental vote this week of the law for the Restoration of Nature, efforts increase to carry out a regulation that the leader of the European popular, Manfred Weber, has proposed to knock down.