Our response to environmental problems requires a cross-sectoral and integrated approach to environmental protection. Only this way can we see the broader picture, and avoid false solutions brought by simply shifting the environmental burden from one aspect to another. Our goal is to improve the tools to measure the environmental footprint of organisations and products in order to push economic operators worldwide to know their impact and improve their environmental performance. We strive to ensure the exchange of accurate, transparent and robust environmental information between businesses and consumers.
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More people than ever attended UNEA-6, the latest United Nations Environment Assembly held in Nairobi last month. ECOS was present and contributed to the negotiations, giving input to resolutions that shape the global environmental agenda. Consensus-based policymaking is a tough and compromising process, but there were some roses among the thorns. Find out more from our blog.
There is a crucial gap in current EU law. Resource overconsumption is not being addressed, even though it is predicted to continue rising. The need for an EU Directive on Sustainable Resource Management – with science-based and overarching reduction targets for resource use – has never been clearer.
Nature is all around us – giving and sustaining life. But we must ensure that we see the forest for the trees. The impassioned debate that enveloped the EU’s Nature Restoration Law earlier this month demonstrated the importance of taking a breath and stepping back from the business of our daily routines. We must remember that we owe much to nature. Policymakers and regulators all over the world have a duty to protect it.
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.
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