Overview   Climate change

Opportunities and challenges of megatrends for a comprehensive EU-Africa Partnership.

Becoming the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050 is the greatest challenge and opportunity of our times. To achieve this, the European Commission presented the European Green Deal, the most ambitious package of measures that should enable European citizens and businesses to benefit from sustainable green transition. Measures accompanied with an initial roadmap of key policies range from ambitiously cutting emissions, to investing in cutting-edge research and innovation, to preserving Europe’s natural environment. Supported by investments in green technologies, sustainable solutions and new businesses, the Green Deal can be a new EU growth strategy. Involvement and commitment of the public and of all stakeholders is crucial to its success. Above all, the European Green Deal sets a path for a transition that is just and socially fair. It is designed in such a way as to leave no individual or region behind in the great transformation ahead.

The INFORM Global Crisis Severity Index (GCSI) for November 2019 is now available.

Fern has conducted an analysis of the National Energy and Climate Plans of five Member States – Sweden, Denmark, Slovakia, Romania and Germany – in order to evaluate their transparency and to find out how these countries see the role of forests in climate action.

Honduras: Nearly 1 million people in severe food insecurity.

The Council adopted conclusions on the updated bioeconomy strategy for Europe. In its conclusions, the Council expresses its support for the updated bioeconomy strategy set out in the Commission communication. It calls on member states to implement this strategy without delay and on the Commission to facilitate and drive forward its implementation.

The November edition of the JRC's Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production (ASAP) assessment is now available.

The European Union will invest €20 million in rural development in Uzbekistan. €10 million will be spent on developing job skills in rural areas. €5 million will protect severely climate-affected communities of the Aral Sea region. Another €5 million will contribute to improving the country’s trade and policy environment.

A record 45 million people across the 16-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) will be severely food insecure in the next six months, United Nations food agencies have warned.

The Swedish forest industry has a positive effect on the global climate equivalent to 93 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, when both forest and forest products are taken into account. This means that the positive climate effect of the forest industry is almost as great as the total Swedish consumption of 100 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year.

As leaders from around the world gather in New York for Climate Week NYC, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with Material Economics, has launched Completing the Picture: How the Circular Economy Tackles Climate Change. The paper reveals the need for a fundamental shift in the global approach to tackling climate change.

On 16th of October is World Food Day, a day of action dedicated to tackling global hunger.

The focus of GHI 2019 is Climate Change and hunger, exploring the impact of extreme weather on food production, nutrition and food security.

The JPI HDHL in collaboration with JPI OCEANS and FACCE-JPI partners is launching the ERA –HDHL 3rd Joint Funding Action (JFA) ”Knowledge Hub on Food and Nutrition Security”.

Crop and livestock production is projected to decrease and may even have to be abandoned in parts of Europe’s southern and Mediterranean regions due to the increased negative impacts of climate change, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) report published on 04 Sep 2019.