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  • Vacancy: Programme Manager – Energy Transition

    Application deadline: 8 December 2025 📄 Job advert: Programme Manager, Energy Transition Your tasks will include: Policy & standards Shape and implement advocacy strategies to obtain ambitious policies and standards that contribute to the energy transition (for example, to facilitate the circularity of batteries, ensure a clean supply of hydrogen, limit fugitive methane emissions, etc.). […]

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  • Factsheet – Trading raw materials responsibly

    Demand for raw materials is rising – so are the risks Minerals like lithium, cobalt, and rare earths are essential for clean technologies, ICT, and defence – with global demand rising fast, and trade restrictions with it. But their extraction and processing drive deforestation, water depletion and pollution, biodiversity loss, and human rights violations. Trade […]

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  • Indirect Cost Compensation reform risks diverting Emissions Trading Scheme revenues from climate action

    To unlock the full potential of ETS revenues and help achieve the EU’s climate goals, the European Commission should:  Refrain from the expansion of eligible sectors under the Guidelines, at least until the current system of ICC has been adequately reformed. Update CO₂ emission factors to reflect the average annual marginal emission intensity of the […]

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  • Call for experts – bioeconomy and nature

    The adoption of the Nature Restoration Regulation, initiatives within the EU bioeconomy policy framework, and the development of standards related to monitoring and assessment constitute the context for this call for experts. Interested candidates should be able to demonstrate in-depth technical/scientific knowledge in: Ecological management practices, such as agroecology, ecological forestry, sustainable soil management. Environmental […]

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  • EU Circular Economy Act: Essential need for a dual legal basis

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  • Dual legal basis needed for Circular Economy

    You can learn more in our joint position paper, summarising the essential need for a dual legal basis for the EU’s Circular Economy Act.

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  • New data reveals the extent of Europe’s e-waste crisis

    Eurostat’s latest data confirm a worrying trend: more electronics are entering the EU market and more e-waste is generated as a result. In 2023: More than 14.4 million tonnes of electrical and electronic equipment were sold in the EU – an increase of over 89 percent since 2012. The highest per-capita consumers of electrical and […]

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  • ECOS newsletter – October 2025

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  • Towards a European Affordable Housing Plan that is fair and sustainable

    In the past 15 years, house prices in the EU increased by nearly 58% and rents by 28%. The knee-jerk reaction to this could be to ‘build, build, build’ – but the predominant way of building cities is heavily unsustainable.  Reaching energy, climate, and circularity goals while also ensuring affordable, accessible, and healthy housing are […]

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  • Delivering an EU Circular Economy Act that works

    Learn more in our response to the proposed Circular Economy Act Under the Clean Industrial Deal, the European Union has committed to becoming the world’s circular economy leader by 2030. The Circular Economy Act (CEA) is a critical opportunity to achieve this goal and align Europe’s economic resilience and competitiveness with environmental protection. However, this […]

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