"EU environmental laws make people's lives better but rules only work if they're actually applied. Environmental laws improve water & air quality, raise recycling rates & protect nature, to mention a few. And they provide huge economic benefits. But they can only be effective if implemented. It...

This in-depth report provides a summary of current scientific progress of the techniques and methods to assess nanomaterial safety, particularly in relation to the environment. The aim is to present the most promising strategies and most significant challenges of nanomaterial characterisation,...

Impact investing refers to investments that intend to generate measurable social and/or environmental impacts, as well as a financial return. It is often described as 'doing good while doing well' and is part of a wider strategy to shift finance towards more sustainable projects. This Future...

This in-depth report provides a summary of current scientific progress of the techniques and methods to assess nanomaterial safety, particularly in relation to the environment. The aim is to present the most promising strategies and most significant challenges of nanomaterial characterisation,...

Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) is a new tool enabling the verification of the performance claims put forward by developers of innovative environmental technologies. The EU-ETV programme, launched in 2011 by DG-ENV, is supported by Technical Working Groups (TWGs), one for each...

On September 15th 2015 the new ISO 14001 was officially published. Since the standard was first issued in 1996, it has been revised twice. One fundamental innovation of the new revision is the so called "High Level Structure" (HLS), which will be implemented in all ISO Management System...

Impact investing refers to investments that intend to generate measurable social and/or environmental impacts, as well as a financial return. It is often described as 'doing good while doing well' and is part of a wider strategy to shift finance towards more sustainable projects. This Future...

This Thematic Issue outlines some next steps towards an integrated environmental risk assessment. The studies presented here bring together overlapping knowledge areas and insights into new applications or significant gaps in risk assessment processes; each makes a valuable contribution towards...