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Networking session for Covenant Coordinators and Supporters at #EURegionsWeek 20th anniversary

To be held as part of the European Week of Regions and Cities in English and Spanish, both online and at the premises of the Committee of the Regions in Brussels Achieving the objectives of the RePowerEU while meeting the EU’s 2030 Climate and Energy targets will require unprecedented mobilization across levels of governance and…

Zero Waste Europe approves Parliament resolutions on RED III

Waste incineration of biogenic waste (biowaste, paper, etc.) can only be supported if separate collection obligations are fully met The European Parliament voted its final position on the Renewable Energy Directive (RED III). Zero Waste Europe (ZWE) supports the decisions taken to help accelerate the transition to a circular economy in Europe, however, regrets that an amendment to exclude…

World’s Top Urban Resiliency Innovations Revealed

QBE and Leading Cities Announce AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge Finalists Leading Cities, a global nonprofit driving city resiliency and sustainability, in partnership with QBE Insurance Group revealed ten of the world’s foremost urban technology startups in its QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge finalist line-up. Currently, in its fourth year, the program has become one of the largest…

Innovation, sustainability and creativity

UNWTO and the Government of Italy will celebrate the 6th Global Conference on Wine Tourism Under the theme ‘What's next? Wine tourism pairs with Innovation…’ and building up on the success of the past five editions, this 6th edition will take place on 19-21 September 2022, in Alba in the Piemonte region, at the heart of the ‘Vineyard…

Two States Start Taxing NFTs

Washington and Pennsylvania wade into a largely unregulated Marketplace Earlier this summer, Washington and Pennsylvania became the first two states to tax the sale of non-fungible tokens or NFTs. If other states follow their lead, the NFT marketplace, which has relied heavily on anonymity and a lack of government oversite, could face new challenges. In…

Horizon Europe project developing liquid hydrogen energy storage for net zero aviation

The OVERLEAF project aims to decarbonise the skies by pioneering a groundbreaking liquid hydrogen storage tank to fuel hydrogen-powered aircraft The project, which Horizon Europe supports, was launched in May 2022, and will run for three years. OVERLEAF comprises a 10-strong consortium from six European countries, is led by Aciturri Engineering, and includes various leading companies…

EBRD promotes green investments in Egypt’s small businesses.

Egypt is a founding member of the EBRD. Since the start of its operations there in 2012, the Bank has invested more than €9.8 billion in 152 projects in the country The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is supporting the green economy in Egypt with a US$ 100 million loan to Banque Misr for on-lending…

Oxford researchers develop new AI to enable autonomous vehicles to adapt to challenging weather conditions

The team anticipates that this work will bring AVs one step closer to safe and smooth all-weather autonomous driving, and ultimately a broader use within societies Researchers at Oxford University’s Department of Computer Science, in collaboration with colleagues from Bogazici University, Turkey, have developed a novel artificial intelligence (AI) system to enable autonomous vehicles (AVs) to…

Consortium to Develop Fully Implantable Brain-Computer Interface to Enable Communication for People with Paralysis

Suitable for use at home, it will be capable of decoding speech in real-time to enable people with LIS to communicate with family and caregivers A research consortium led by the UMC Utrecht Brain Center (the Netherlands) in collaboration with Graz University of Technology (Austria), the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering (Switzerland) and CorTec…

Orange Spain taps into the metaverse

The virtual space offers access to a commercial area where products and services are displayed, a leisure area with competitions and games, and an amphitheater for events Orange Spain claimed to be the first company in the market to open commercial space in the metaverse, advancing a broader move by its parent group to enable…