Christine Lagarde, Managing chief of the INternational Monetary Fund, on Thursday toiled journalists waiting outside the European Council that EU leaders “have a lot of work to do”. She added [Read more...]
Treaty change on the cards, says Juncker
8 December 2011 By
Jean-Claude Junker, head of the Eurogroup and prime minister of Luxembourg, said to journalists just before the EU summit talks: “We have to check the elements we have to change [Read more...]
From Life-Cycle Thinking to Action – EurActiv Workshop – highlights
5 December 2011 By
Europe is increasingly looking at assessing the economic, social and environmental impact of all products and materials — from raw material extraction to transport, consumption and final disposal. As part of the process, Life- Cycle Assessment (LCA) has emerged as a key concept to guide sustainable policymaking and business decision- making.
A Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe has been published on the 20th of September: how much is life- cycle thinking reflected in it?
How is LCA done in different sectors, and what are the lessons learnt?
Are existing ISO standards for LCA helpful, and which sectors already use them?
What are stakeholders’ expectations as to the LCA guidelines being developed by the EU’s Joint Research Centre?
Given LCA’s complexity, what should be its practical implications? What actions should assessments trigger?
Should policymakers intervene to support the further development of standards, and how?
Should standards be enforced, or is the creation of benchmarks sufficient?
Speaking in this video are:
David Pennington, Action Leader, Sustainability Assessment, Joint Research Centre
Reinhard Butikofer, MEP
Annick Carpentier, EHSDirector, Coordination & Product Policy, Eurometaux
Jean-Pierre BIRAT, ArcelorMittal Global
Johannes Drielsma, Deputy Director, European Association of Mining Industries
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Belgian unions hold mass protest against austerity measures
2 December 2011 By
Around 50 thousand trade union members marched across Brussels on Friday to protest against austerity measures. In response to the current financial crisis, the newly formed Belgian government agreed last [Read more...]
Greenpeace stormtroopers protest at EU car lobby meeting
2 December 2011 By
Greenpeace activists on Friday showed up at an important car manufacturers meeting in Brussels in which CEO’s of major companies decided weather to block a key EU climate action law [Read more...]
This is not a “Brussels dictatorship”, Barroso says
Speaking at the EPP’s Congress in Marseille on Thursday, President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, said that “we need to ensure that there is a budget constituency at EU level, so this is not a Brussels’ dictatorship, on the contrary, it is having a shared democratic accountability”.
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