The IMPEL Water and Land Expert Team is inviting you to their online Open Day on 10 December 2020 from 10.00 – 12.00 am CET. For more details, please see below and/or click here.
IMPEL Capacity Building and Training Programme visualised in an animation
IMPEL’s Capacity Building and Training Programme is well on its way. The planned physical meetings have all been postponed because of COVID-19. The Programme Management Team decided to use the time properly to prepare the work further, until the working groups can meet each other again face to face. In the meantime, working groups 2… [Read more]
ECA invite to survey response on issue of plastic waste, as EU must boost recycling – deadline 27 November 2020
The European Court of Auditors (ECA) is inviting stakeholders to the survey on review 04/2020: “EU action to tackle the issue of plastic waste“. The survey opens by clicking here. Deadline is 27 November 2020. The ECA strives to produce audit reports of high impact and which are useful to its stakeholders. This survey gives the… [Read more]
BirdLife Europe report reveals: Member States are responsible for the death of over 14 million birds
84 000 derogations granted between 2009 – 2017 push vulnerable species to the brink BirdLife Europe just released a report which provides an in-depth analysis of derogations in eight EU Member States: Bulgaria, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Poland and Spain. BirdLife Europe published an in-depth report on the matter, as well as a snapshot summary. Derogations are… [Read more]
Circular Plastics Alliance: Europe must double recycling of plastics to meet target of 2025
Just over 5 million tonnes of recycled plastic made it back into the EU product stream each year between 2016 and 2019, which is only half of the targeted market size for 2025, according to a new report for the Circular Plastics Alliance (CPA) — State of Play on Collection and Sorting. Based on the… [Read more]
IMPEL Fixed Line Transects Europe project reports successful kick-off meetings
The first two recent kick off meetings have set the tone for the IMPEL Fixed Line Transects (FLT) Europe project. The projects aims to address gaps in macro fauna monitoring along marine transborder transects to respond to EU legislative drivers, and aims to draw shared guidelines for cetacean (whales, dolphins and porpoises) and turtles monitoring… [Read more]
IMPEL Water and Land Remediation project calls for submission of case studies on remediation technologies
One of the projects of the IMPEL Water and Land Expertise Team is the Water and Land Remediation project. This project focuses on contaminated sites management, which is a process that has different speeds in Members States. This is due partly to differences in legislation that would mean different definitions as for making some examples… [Read more]
IMPEL project on reversing groundwater pollution officially started – survey to gather information ongoing
Many EU countries have a problem with polluted groundwater. According to a recent report, 25 % of ground water bodies in the European Union (and e.g. 36 % in Germany) were chemically in a poor status in 2015, mostly due to pollution with nitrates and pesticides from agriculture. Moreover, and contrary to the objectives laid… [Read more]
Over 200,000 tonnes of plastic leaking into the Mediterranean each year, reports IUCN
A new IUCN report finds that an estimated 229,000 tonnes of plastic is leaking into the Mediterranean Sea every year, equivalent to over 500 shipping containers each day. Unless significant measures are taken to address mismanaged waste, the main source of the leakage, this will at least double by 2040. Based on a compilation of… [Read more]
IMPEL Work Programme for 2020 complete and available
The complete IMPEL Work Programme for 2020 is now available, containing the proposed Terms of References (ToR’s) for the 2020 IMPEL Work Programme (1 July 2020 – 31 March 2021) of the following IMPEL Expert Teams: • Industry & Air. • Waste & TFS. • Water & Land. • Nature Protection. • Cross-cutting tools and approaches…. [Read more]
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