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Europe’s mild winter leaves gas stocks at record high on 08/03/24 Europe is on track to end the winter with a record volume of gas in storage, which has pushed futures prices back to pre-crisis levels once inflation is taken into account. New forest monitoring data framework needs to get below tree line [Advocacy Lab Content] on 08/03/24 The EU’s new and evolving forest monitoring framework has lawmakers contesting the benefits of harvesting optimum broad data sets, weighted against cost burdens for the forestry industry in acquiring the data. Europe must address soil degradation and act for soil restoration [Promoted content] on 07/03/24 Ahead of the vote on 11 March in the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee in the European Parliament on the Soil Monitoring and Resilience Directive, experts underline the urgency to adopt an EU legislative framework addressing the rapid... Departing from coal: Poland’s new energy roadmap on 07/03/24 The election of a new government in Poland has enabled this Central European country to revive its ambitions in terms of energy transition and to meet European targets. Czech concerns over costs and delays cast shadow on French EDF nuclear bid on 07/03/24 In the race to secure a nuclear unit tender for the Dukovany power plant, Czechia express concerns over cost overruns and delays, casting a shadow on French company EDF’s bid. Italy presses ahead with nuclear as energy transition tool after 30-plus-year hiatus on 07/03/24 The Italian Chamber of Deputies will launch a major inquiry into how nuclear energy could help Italy reach its energy transition goals, a significant step as the country remains the only G7 nation not operating nuclear power stations, having shut down the last plant over 30 years ago. EU to finally exit ‘climate-wrecking’ energy treaty on 06/03/24 The European Union is poised to agree on a joint exit from a controversial energy investment protection agreement that activists say is a roadblock on the bloc’s path to climate neutrality. Nuclear: In Prague, Macron defends EDF against non-European competition on 06/03/24 French President Emmanuel Macron lobbied at a Franco-Czech Energy Forum in Prague on Tuesday (5 March) for the state-owned energy giant EDF's bid to build new nuclear reactors in the Czech Republic. Gas is back on the agenda on 06/03/24 Reminiscent of late 2022, natural gas has crept its way back up the political agenda ahead of a solidarity fight between Germany and its neighbouring countries – and growing pressure to ditch all Russian gas. Russia considers putting a nuclear power plant on the moon with China on 06/03/24 Russia and China are considering putting a nuclear power plant on the moon from 2033-35, Yuri Borisov, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday (5 March), something he said could one day allow lunar settlements to be built.
