Your main tasks will be to: Work with the Communications Team to develop and implement innovative Europe-wide communications campaigns and strategies; Re-think, produce and disseminate ECOS Newsletters; Create communications content of ECOS including press releases, annual reports, articles, opinion pieces, and publications; Ensure quality control, editing, proof reading and design of internal and external publications; […]
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Join us in the fight for the right to repair your smartphone: Sign our petition!
The annual climate impact of Europe’s stock of over 600 million smartphones is more than 14 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, more than the annual emissions of Latvia. That is little surprising – the ubiquitous mobile devices tend to have a shorter average lifetime than other household electronics and ICT products, with most phones being […]
The weakness of Voluntary Agreements exposed
The meeting on games consoles pointed to a number of shortcomings in the proposed new version of the VA, and an updated version of the Agreement is to address these before spring. In parallel, an additional review is also expected to be carried out by the end of the year, given the launch of the […]
CALL FOR EXPERTS – GHG accounting & carbon neutrality
The candidates should have expertise in one or several of the below: GHG accounting & Carbon footprint Carbon neutrality Avoided emissions Emissions from Energy Intensive Industries, including industrial process emissions Emissions from Energy Production processes GHG offset accounting Accounting of biogenic carbon content Life Cycle Assessment LCA in the field of waste management The nominated […]
Watch our webinar on computer repair!
We discuss: where we are on the policy front the main reasons for computer failures the main challenges for repairers what the EU can and should be doing The webinar also presents our new report – drafted in cooperation with Right to Repair and Coolproducts campaigns – which shows the way to making computers durable and […]
New planning for the revision of the boilers and water heaters regulations
The planning has been delayed, however, by a number of years, as several issues still need to be tackled in the review process, including setting stricter ecodesign requirements for the emissions of certain pollutants. The preparatory study for this review was concluded in 2019 but a number of outstanding issues remained. In order to tackle […]
Environmental NGOs urge the EU institutions to adopt a fossil fuel free Cohesion Policy
ECOS co-signed the letter calling on the EU to: exclude fossil fuel investments from EU financing; involve all relevant stakeholders in all programming, implementation and monitoring of EU cohesion policy; ensure that all EU funding programmes and projects are embedded in strategies that support climate objectives. Cohesion Policy funding aims to reduce territorial disparities across […]
10 years to save the oceans – ECOS co-signs the Blue Manifesto
ECOS is proud to join the 102 environmental organisations led by Seas at Risk, BirdLife Europe, ClientEarth, Oceana, Surfrider Foundation Europe and WWF, who believe that to be successful, change is needed on both land and sea. The signatories of the Blue Manifesto call on the European Commission to make oceans an integral part of […]
CALL FOR EXPERTS – Ecodesign Standardisation
The candidates should have expertise in one or several of the below product groups: ICT products Space and water heaters Pumps Motors White goods Professional refrigeration Cooking appliances Vacuum cleaners High-pressure cleaners Smart appliances Servers & data centres Ventilation units Solar photovoltaics Imaging equipment Lighting products Air conditioners Heat pumps Horizontal material efficiency aspects The […]
Our 2020 Work Programme now published!
This year, we will pay particular attention to these priority issues: Making the circular economy a reality, both from a policy and standards perspective; Pushing for a drastic reduction of plastics use and pollution, and enabling environmentally-sound recycling; Campaigning for a high level of ambition in the implementation of the ecodesign policy to embed circular and low carbon thinking at design […]
