EU Environment

The official account for @EU_Commission Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV). Rts and likes are not necessarily endorsements.

[Horizon Europe 🇪🇺 @HorizonEU]

🏨 Europe’s buildings are ageing:

- 85% built before 2000
- 75% energy inefficient

Discover how #EUfunded research and innovation projects are accelerating renovation: https://t.co/A3nndEV03M

[EU Environment @EU_ENV]

Your city needs more plants.
And your brain agrees.

A recent study used brainwave sensors and heart rate monitors to measure people's responses to urban greenery.

📽️ Watch our latest YouTube video: https://t.co/Ots9yVnZaL

[EU Environment @EU_ENV]

✅ Relevant, flexible by design, and with clear added value!

The evaluation of the EU Nitrates Directive shows that it is fit for purpose while also identifying opportunities to simplify its implementation.

Learn more 👉 https://t.co/EmM8CXXX9M

#ZeroPollution

[LIFE Programme @LIFEProgramme]

Summer is here, but nature never takes a holiday - and neither does LIFE! ☀️

This newsletter:
🪲New factsheet on invertebrates
📣LIFE Calls for Proposals are still open
🏆LIFE Awards winners
🤝Our latest events
📝New tender opportunity

Read👉https://t.co/TZ1QDpNw10

[Jessika Roswall @JessikaRoswall]

Today, I had the honor of meeting with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres 🇺🇳

It was a great pleasure to meet with him and exchange views on multilateral action and the need to make progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.

[EU Environment @EU_ENV]

🔋New rules adopted today, adding 6 new product categories to the exemptions from the 🇪🇺 requirements on the removability and replaceability of portable batteries.

This includes:
⌚smartwatches & fitness trackers
🧸electric toys

More 👉 https://t.co/HYTCijffjL

#CircularEconomy

[🇪🇺EU at UN-NY @EUatUN]

Four years remain to deliver on #2030Agenda. The EU continues to work w/partners to accelerate progress on #SDGs, advance green transition, strengthen resilience & mobilise sustainable investment, including via #GlobalGateway.

🇪🇺Cssr @JessikaRoswall #HLPF
https://t.co/VQAaga6L7S

[Jessika Roswall @JessikaRoswall]

Today, I want to focus on a simple truth that is often overlooked.
Pollution is not only an environmental problem. It is a human health problem, a development problem, and economic problem.

[Mission Ocean Waters @OurMissionOcean]

The #MissionOcean & Waters project @INSPIRE_EUROPE has successfully tested its fish-friendly net, which collects plastic from the riverbed while allowing fish to avoid capture. 🐟

Find out more 👉 https://t.co/tyM9Zdd91f

@Cinea_EU @EUScienceInnov @EU_MARE @EU_ENV

[EU Environment @EU_ENV]

We are making tourism more sustainable in Europe - with #Natura2000 🏞️🧳

Our new guidance outlies how the Natura 2000 network can act as a powerful driver of sustainable tourism, while safeguarding the natural habitats and species it protects.

More 👉 https://t.co/YyO20W20Hy

[EU Environment @EU_ENV]

By 2037 we will reach 9 billion people.

The EU is working towards a fair & competitive transition to climate neutrality that cuts emissions while supporting people & businesses - so that we can all share this planet and its resources in a sustainable way.

#WorldPopulationDay 🌍

[EU Environment @EU_ENV]

📍 🇮🇹 Seveso, Italy | 10.07.1976

A chemical plant explosion released a toxic cloud into the air, affecting thousands of people.

Today, on its 50th anniversary, we look back at how this birthed the 🇪🇺 longest-standing industrial safety framework 👉 https://t.co/CY5f3D0ztM

[EU Environment @EU_ENV]

Help us better protect EU habitats - #EUHaveYourSay on the Birds and Habitats Directives!

Our aim is to strengthen EU competitiveness while still safeguarding our environmental & social goals

📢 Citizens, stakeholders, NGOs can give input by 4 August 👉 https://t.co/axBWQ683mQ

[EU Environment @EU_ENV]

Something to be proud of 💙🇪🇺

🚰 96.8% of people in the EU are connected to a public drinking water network.

And this is thanks to EU legislation.

Because access to safe, affordable drinking water is a human right 👉 https://t.co/VRy5K8nXPv

[Horizon Europe 🇪🇺 @HorizonEU]

🌱 From forests to coasts, #EUGreenDeal projects show how circular solutions support nature restoration and climate action.

Reusing materials, restoring ecosystems and reducing pollution can go hand in hand:

➡️ https://t.co/qXxIFvQ19J

[EU Environment @EU_ENV]

This needs to stop.

Single-use plastic products are more likely to end up in our seas than reusable options.

The 🇪🇺 Single-use Plastics Directive ensures that when alternatives are available and affordable, such products can't be placed on the market 👉 https://t.co/N9xSITEt0G

[LIFE Programme @LIFEProgramme]

Healthy ecosystems support more than wildlife.🌿

At ESP Europe Conference 2026, seven #LIFEProjects showed how nature can reduce flood risks, improve water quality, strengthen climate resilience and enhance well-being.

Learn more: https://t.co/BfkQ2bsmxM

[European Research Executive Agency @REA_research]

The postcard we expect vs the postcard we leave behind.

85% of marine litter is plastic.

Research projects are helping us better understand, monitor & tackle a problem that arrives with every tide.

Learn more: https://t.co/VGifaqFHbb

[EU Environment @EU_ENV]

A greener view can change how you feel 💚

Researchers used brainwave sensors and heart rate monitors to measure how we respond to urban greenery - and found out that green walls & roofs, even artificial ones, can reduce heat stress and boost wellbeing 👉 https://t.co/tZeGEeOOrI

[European Commission @EU_Commission]

👋 Five years ago, we said goodbye to plastic straws, cutlery, cotton buds and other single-use plastic items, to reduce pollution and help protect human health and the environment.

Sustainable alternatives are the norm. No longer the exception.

🔗 https://t.co/U4u6M07Yfh