Reports on two controversial European Union directives calling for extended producer responsibility in the electrical and electronic appliance arena that are likely to have impact on U.S. companies. Recycling or reuse of parts of equipment that has reached the end of its useful life; Ban of the ...
EU wine geographical indications are bound to a strict regulatory system, limiting their potential to adapt to climate change. In this study, analysis of social, environmental and economic characteristics of over 1000 EU wine regions suggests that innovation and flexibility are key to increase the re...
The Russian invasion of Ukraine hampers the ability to adequately describe conditions across the Arctic, thus biasing the view on Arctic change. Here we benchmark the pan-Arctic representativeness of the largest high-latitude research station network, IN
The Agenda's Juliet Mann heads to The British Motor Show to find out what's driving change in the sector. Steve Nash,Chief Executive of the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI)and former Director of BMW UK,gives us an overview of the challenges that lie ahead, including a severe shortag...
The digital transformation of recent years, which also followed a gradual-then-sudden trajectory, showed us that investments in technology and specialist teams could easily falter without driving a culture and mindset shift among managers and the people at the front lines. To realize AI’s ful...
This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Introduction The unprecedented global growth in production and consumption over the last 200 years, made possible by major break-throughs in science and technology, has led to substantial ...
But so far, only the EU, the UK, Italy and France have committed to long-term net zero targets. President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, and seven G20 members, including Australia, Brazil and Canada, need to take more action to meet their current carbon emission ...
As acidified systems return to a natural level alternative driving factors (see other section headings) will be increasingly important (Clark et al., 2010). Further work is also needed into the impact of rising low level ozone concentrations as this has been shown to affect upland plant ...
Finding answers to climate problems — and the financial benefits this might bring — is driving advances. James Mitchell Crow Nature Index|11 December 2024 Five countries having a clear impact on the latest materials-science research All these nations are making a splash with their Nature Index ...
variability modulates the seasonal fire weather in the country, driving in turn the interannual fire activity. The signature of the warm anomalies in the Niño 1 + 2 region (0°–10° S, 90° W–80° W) is apparent on the burned area records seen in Central Chile in 2017 and ...