Turning your business into a circular model can greatly benefit both the environment and your bottom line. Whether you are in manufacturing, services or agriculture, embracing circularity requires rethinking your processes, products and strategies. Here's what you need to know to make this transformation a success. Understand the circular economy The circular economy is an economic…
Last June, France officially introduced a ban on short-haul domestic flights in an attempt to reduce carbon emissions, reports Euronews. In theory, the regulation prohibits flights where there is a rail alternative of less than two and a half hours. A year ago, critics of the ban said it was ineffective because it targeted very few routes and…
Last month was the hottest June on record, the EU climate change monitoring agency Copernicus announced today. This continues a streak of extremely high temperatures that some scientists predict will make 2024 the world's hottest year on record. Every month since June 2023 – for 13 consecutive months now – has ranked as…
Unconscious bias is part of human nature. It happens when people make quick judgments and form opinions about people and situations without realizing it. Unconscious bias in the workplace can negatively impact diversity and inclusion in recruitment, hiring and promotion practices. Although all people have…
The "Women in tech" program, which is a joint project of the Higher School of Telecommunications and Posts, Huawei Technologies Bulgaria and the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, has launched a new free digital skills course for women and will accept those who wish to join the training courses through August and September. The program can include both...
The European Union (EU) has resisted calls from some industries and countries to delay its flagship policy to fight deforestation, a letter cited by Reuters shows. The deforestation law will require, from December 30, companies selling soy, beef, coffee, palm oil and other products in the 27-nation bloc to prove that their supply chains do not…
Another 160 people will be released from the "Contour Global Maritsa Iztok 3" TPP. This was reported to Radio Stara Zagora by the company's executive director, Vasil Shtonov. "The measure is necessary for several reasons - the plant is not included in the production of electricity for the so-called "regulated market", and on the free market, the production of energy from lignite is not...
Buildings and transport are the two most important sectors for decarbonisation to meet the EU's 2030 climate targets. They have the most direct impact on EU citizens in their everyday lives, as the choice to undertake energy renovations or to buy a new electric vehicle is a decision that involves significant costs. This…
Migration and climate change are two hot-button political issues - with concerns about the former a major reason for the far-right's strong showing in the last EU election, as some voters support tougher rules, Euronews reports. The climate crisis is slowly making more and more places uninhabitable due to extreme weather conditions and it is often assumed that…
There are six times more direct flights between European cities than direct train connections, a new Greenpeace analysis found, cited by Euronews. And several major European cities have no direct trains at all to any other cities included in the survey. There are far more direct flights than train routes in Europe The study participants analyzed 990 routes…
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