Horizon 2020 Projects

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.

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 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.