Policy Release

• Council adopts new regulation on batteries and waste batteries

  10 July 2023The Council today adopted a new regulation that strengthens sustainability rules for batteries and waste batteries. The regulation will regulate the entire life cycle of batteries – from ...

  2023-07-13

  

• China's energy intensity down 26.4 pct over past decade

  This aerial photo taken on July 7, 2023 shows a view of a former coal mine after ecological restoration in Jungar Banner, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Liu Lei)GUANG...

  2023-07-12

  

• Circular economy for textiles: taking responsibility to reduce, reuse and recycle textile waste and boosting markets for used textiles

  5 July 2023Today, the Commission is proposing rules to make producers responsible for the full lifecycle of textile products and to support the sustainable management of textile waste&n...

  2023-07-10

  

• Update: China ratifies National Ecology Day to enhance public awareness, actions

  This photo taken on June 8, 2023 shows corals in the waters of Fenjiezhou Island of Hainan Province, south China (Xinhua/Zhang Liyun)BEIJING, June 28 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislature on We...

  2023-07-03

  

• EU carbon border adjustment mechanism: Implications for climate and competitiveness

  The EU has the world's largest carbon-pricing system, the emissions trading system (ETS). Emissions pricing can encourage industrial decarbonisation, but it also risks carbon leakage, whereby EU c...

  2023-06-21