Press release | At 4:30 on Thursday morning, EU institutions reached a provisional agreement on the long-awaited, and first-ever, EU legislative framework for soils: the Soil Monitoring Law. However, the deal falls short of what is urgently needed, environmental NGOs warn.
We have a number of open calls for experts across various topics. Our experts provide us with technical and scientific input and represent ECOS in standardisation processes and multi-stakeholder discussions. ECOS experts can participate in technical meetings for standardising bodies, such as CEN/CENELEC or ISO or prepare technical input for ECOS position papers and our responses to consultations.
ECOS is looking for experts on biodiversity in the Food and Agriculture sectors to represent and defend environmental interests in the development of standards and related policies. Our experts provide us with technical and scientific input and represent ECOS in standardisation processes and multi-stakeholder discussions.
Soil, and the multitude of organisms that live in it, make life on land possible. It provides us with food, with biomass and fibres, and with raw materials. It regulates the water and the carbon and nutrient cycles. Healthy soils are also the largest terrestrial carbon pool on the planet. Coupled with their sponge-like ability to absorb water and reduce the risk of flooding and drought, this makes soil an indispensable ally in climate change mitigation and adaptation.
ECOS, together with other 37 organisations, calls on the European Parliament and the Council to ensure the EU achieve the objective of healthy soils by 2050.
ECOS is looking for experts in the field of environmental assessments of soil functions and ecosystem services to represent and defend environmental interests in the development of standards and related policies. Our experts provide us with technical and scientific input and represent ECOS in standardisation processes and multi-stakeholder discussions.
Around one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. 4.7 million hectares of forests are lost every year. 90% of disasters are now classed as weather and climate-related linked to the climate crisis.
New ECOS report prepared with Biodiversify analyses Target 15, one of the main outcomes from the 15th Conference of Parties (COP 15) of the Convention on Biological Diversity. This Target encourages and enables the private sector to monitor, assess and transparently disclose risks, dependencies and impacts on biodiversity both within their own operations and across their supply and value chains.
On International Day of Action for Rivers 2023, ECOS and 200+ organisations call on all Member States, the European Parliament, and the European Commission to adopt a strong and timely EU Nature Restoration Law.
New ECOS report on sustainable timber constructions explains how policy and standards can support the mutual improvement of the ecological functions of forests via ecological forest management, and decarbonise the building sector through a reasonable use of circular and sustainably-sourced timber.
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