Views: 17Air pollution represents a great danger and critical threat to both human health and environmental stability. However, the vast majority of population remains unaware of these threats, though respiratory sickness is the second largest threat to health in the EU after cardio-vascular. Data about air quality in the EU-27 and around the world helps […]
Category: Science and innovation
covering increasing role of science, research and innovation in the modern national development models
AI in Europe and the world: legal and executive factors
Views: 1During last decade, i.e. mainly from 2018, the EU institutions have been approaching the burning artificial intelligence (AI) issues. The “accommodation” process has been quite active: from the initial “declaration of cooperation” with the EU member states and serious funding to several AI Alliance assemblies to a Union-wide strategy on AI and European AI […]
Strengthening finances and digital currency: global and EU’s vision
Views: 6The EU-27 is regarded as one of the world’s leaders in both providing and attracting investments; however, modern changes in geopolitics require a profound understanding of all the potential risks involved. Hence, the EU is assessing the region’s investment in key technology areas, such as semiconductors, AI, quantum technologies and crypto currencies in order […]
Renewable hydrogen in accelerating the EU’s green transition
Views: 79The establishment of a binding Union renewable energy target for 2030 was aimed to continue encouraging the development of technologies which produce renewable energy (including hydrogen) and provide certainty for investors. The EU-wide target would leave greater flexibility for the member states to meet their greenhouse gas reduction targets in the most cost-effective manner […]
EU efforts to support clean industrial development in the member states
Views: 16New Commission proposal aims to ensure that the member states can have the EU’s support to facilitate implementation of the EU-wide “clean industrial deal” without causing undue distortions of competition in the European single market. The Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework provides for some measures to integrate the EU-wide industrial development, competition as well […]
Consumer protection in the EU: screening online traders
Views: 7In order to contribute to the proper functioning of the internal market (based on a high level of consumer and environmental protection) and making progress in the green transition, the consumers shall be fully informed on purchasing conditions. In March 2024, the new directive obliged the member states by March 2026 to adopt necessary […]
European zero-pollution ambition: complicated ways of progress
Views: 14Twice a year the EU European Commission’s Joint Research Centre together with the European Environment Agency, EEA publishes a monitoring report on progress in the member states in achieving the EU’s zero-pollution targets according to the 2021 Zero Pollution Action Plan. It reveals future policies designed to support the zero-pollution ambition in reducing threat […]
Transition to carbonized economy: “correcting” EU priorities
Views: 18There are already serious reservations concerning the EU’s net-zero growth, as well as about “indefinite delay” of corporate sustainability rules and a “far-reaching simplification”. These and other issues were mentioned recently by Von der Leyen, Commission President in Davos. However, some EU officials in headline commitments note that in the context of the Green […]
Developmental transition: global-national priorities through ESG and AI approaches
Views: 19Modern national growth concepts tend to include the ESG approaches, which are composed of environmental, social and governance components. Within this triangle, the governance often becomes a priority, particularly in the business sectors, in digital transition and data management. For the whole process to be successful, “managing” existing volumes and complexities of information becomes […]
“Positive sustainability” in growth: European governance strategies
Views: 23The European approach in growth is, generally, a result and an outcome of the EU-wide adopted political economy pattern based on the concept of “social market economy” in which the regulatory and governance strategies have been dominating for decades. The EU has conducted recently several “hybrid efforts” on strengthening the EU’s leadership in sustainability, […]