In the spotlight

 

Climate change major threat to respiratory health

 

europapress, 13.09.2021

 

Produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit and commissioned by the Chiesi Group, a new report 'Climate change and its impact on lung health: a focus on Europe' says climate change is damaging respiratory health in ways not commonly known.

 

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https://twitter.com/risj_oxford/status/1437281636475879427

 

https://twitter.com/EP_ThinkTank/status/1436299163344379907

 

https://twitter.com/EUEnvironment/status/1436292537753481216

 

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Digital transition

 

 

Europe is seeing a data center boom. But can the environment sustain it?

 

deutschewelle-en, 10.09.2021

 

People around the world have logged tens of billions of hours on Zoom, Netflix and all kinds of other online applications at home over the past 18 months. But a mass decampment to the online world requires a lot of space in the physical world. That means data centers.

 

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https://twitter.com/risj_oxford/status/1432719707736522765

 

https://twitter.com/DisinfoEU/status/1436350222590951430

 

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Environmental sustainability

 

 

How will blockchain technology help fight climate change?

 

eureporter, 13.09.2021

 

Any new technology comes with advantages and disadvantages as well as teething troubles. Slow connections plagued the early internet – that was even if you could get online: you needed to be a geeky whiz sometimes to boot up the user-unfriendly systems just to send an email. So we should expect that cryptocurrencies will have hiccups as the sector matures.

 

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https://twitter.com/EUClimateAction/status/1436252807921901573

 

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1436347481491533837

 

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Mobility & Energy

 

 

Energy price crunch could undermine EU climate goals

 

oxfordanalytica, 13.09.2021

 

Soaring energy prices across Europe could undermine the EU's "Fit for 55" climate package, which members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will start debating tomorrow.

 

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https://twitter.com/Energy4Europe/status/1436271919897141249

 

https://twitter.com/CER_railways/status/1435879676359159809

 

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Agriculture & Food

 

 

Make a real difference: reduce food loss and waste!

 

fao-en, 10.09.2021

 

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations urges all stakeholders to develop open-minded solutions to a problem affecting more than 30 percent of the food we produce.

 

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EU funded project CIRCULAR FoodPack to develop system for circularity of packaging for direct food contact applications

 

idw-online, 01.09.2021

 

The CIRCULAR FoodPack project aims to facilitate the circular use of plastic packaging addressing the most sensitive product category: Food. The food packaging sector constitutes of 87% of all European flexible plastic multilayer-composites.

 

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https://twitter.com/OrganicsEurope/status/1436321217724755997

 

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Health

 

 

Call to improve global health R&D cooperation

 

sciencebusiness, 09.09.2021

 

The COVID-19 crisis has shown the world needs to revamp the linear model of R&D, come up with new clinical trials designs and shorten the road from discovery to manufacturing, said Victor Dzau, president of the US national academy of medicine.

 

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https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1436309568817143810

 

https://twitter.com/Cambridge_Uni/status/1436316782843867136

 

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Science policy & Communication

 

 

https://twitter.com/risj_oxford/status/1436313513371136008

 

https://twitter.com/DisinfoIndex/status/1436269213228965890

 

https://twitter.com/risj_oxford/status/1433736526987472934

 

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EU initiatives

 

At a Glance - What if deepfakes made us doubt everything we see and hear?

 

europarl, 07.09.2021

 

A wide range of malicious uses have been identified, including fraud, extortion and political disinformation. The impacts of such misuse can be financial, psychological and reputational.

 

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https://twitter.com/EUEnvironment/status/1436232841260580867

 

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Curious news

 

https://twitter.com/UniofOxford/status/1436315776441593912

 

https://twitter.com/wef/status/1436253140513435658

 

https://twitter.com/Energy4Europe/status/1435894628511780868

 

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