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Everyone can now report their planted trees through a newly launched web app, to contribute to the 3 Billion Trees Pledge by 2030.

The Finance for Biodiversity Foundation and Finance@Biodiversity Community launched the Finance for Biodiversity – Guide on engagement with companies in a webinar co-organised with the UNEP FI and the PRI on 12 April 2022.

In 2021, the Finance@Biodiversity Community and the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation published the Guide on biodiversity measurement approaches. On 7 April 2022, one year after the guide was launched, the F@B Community discussed what should be included in the first full update of this guide.

The national & regional B@B platforms and networks reconvened on 26 April 2022 for their monthly meeting. The aim of the monthly meetings is to provide an update on the developments in the field of business and biodiversity with the specific focus on policy developments at European level. Discover what was discussed!

This briefing addressees the carbon storage and sequestration potential of European habitats and the measures available to increase carbon storage.

The Commission published a Restrictions Roadmap, providing detailed information on all ongoing work on future restrictions under the EU chemical legislation.

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Ahead of future legislation, the European Commission has launched a public consultation to explore the problem of unintentionally released microplastics from tyres, textiles, and plastic pellets on the environment. The ETV community is encouraged to contribute.

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Electrochaea’s Biocat was recently ETV verified. The technology converts carbon dioxide into gas to be used for heating or in the natural gas power grid. Electrochea had two goals going into ETV: to gain credibility with local public utilities and to scale-up their technology and ETV was the perfect fit for them.

Recently verified technology ReStOre is a circular economy solution for recycling waste within steel-making plants. Developed by the Italian company, Deref S.p.a. (DEmolizione REFrattari), the ReStOre system converts low-value refractory waste into high-value re-usable products, turning waste into a resource, with economic and environmental benefits.

Are you a start-up looking for a smarter, faster way to introduce your green innovation to the wider world? Are you a part of the EIT Circular Economy Community? A new pool of funding is now available to help you verify the environmental performance of your project through ETV.

ETV has released the first in a series of testimonial videos in which Danish fish-farming specialists, Alpha Aqua, reveal their reasons for choosing the scheme to validate the ‘green performance’ of their novel water treatment unit.

As the spring has fully sprung in Brussels, we are delighted to share with you some upcoming news from the renewed Environmental Technology Verification programme. Our latest picks include the upcoming 5th ETV Stakeholder Forum, the ongoing EIT call for funding, new recently verified technologies and other project updates.

A year after its launch, the Align project is finalising Draft V01 of the Recommendations for a standard on biodiversity measurement and valuation. The draft will soon be released and open for public consultation in June. So stay tuned for your opportunity to become involved in the development of this iterative document!

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To steer more voluntary corporate actions, the Commission plans to work with companies to encourage them to voluntarily commit to disclosing the company's environmental footprint to consumers, improving their sustainability and reducing their impact on the environment. The Commission places EMAS at the heart of the Sustainable Consumption Pledge.

The tourism sector is the first industrial ecosystem in the EU to have worked on a transition pathway for a green and digital transition. The transition strategy has now been launched by the European Commission. EMAS is mentioned as a facilitator of green transition in the tourism sector.