Horizon 2020 Projects

António Correia de Campos MEP, chair of the Science and Technology Assessment unit, an official organ of the European Parliament, outlines his thoughts on climate change policy at the LERU autumn reception.

Dr Jos Delbeke, director general of DG Climate Action in the European Commission, provides his thoughts on climate change policy making and research at LERU’s autumn reception, attended by Horizon 2020 Projects.

Professor Yigal Elad of the Agricultural Research Organization in Israel outlines the benefits of biochar and how the substance could help mitigate the effects of climate change.

Martin Lidegaard, the Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Building, outlines the country’s ambitions to maintain its lead in green energy and the importance of tackling climate change in Horizon 2020.

Eric Boa and Steve Woodward discuss the discovery of ash dieback in the UK in 2012 and the subsequent repercussions.

The European Commission announces the results of the ‘EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change’ will feed into Horizon 2020. The strategy will be formally adopted at a one-day conference in April.

The University of Helsinki’s Professor Markku Kulmala on the PEEX programme into climate in the Northern Eurasian area.

The EU launches a further call for NER300 proposals, promoting the commercial demonstration of environmentally safe carbon capture and geological storage and innovative renewable energy technologies.

In a new announcement, the European Commissioner for Climate Action, Connie Hedegaard, has started developing a new framework for tackling climate change and energy resource problems by 2030.

The out-going chief scientist to the UK government has warned that flooding, droughts and other extreme weather events could become a much more common occurrence within “quite a short timescale”.

​The Committee of the Regions has offered its full support to a pan-European climate change campaign, ‘A world you like. With the climate you like’, which has been launched by the European Commission.