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🌍 Today is International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer. This stratospheric ozone protects life on Earth 🌱, while tropospheric ozone is harmful to health, biodiversity and climate. 💪Together, we can do something about it! https://t.co/OwHXo9l1eG

📣 Join the Scientific Council on Climate! We are looking for candidates to form the new Scientific Council on Climate responsible for advising the government on federal climate policy and funding. Apply before 17/9 👇 https://t.co/IlMcMHoZeh

🇪🇺 🇧🇪 The Belgian Presidency of the EU has made significant progress on climate action during the first half of 2024: adaptation, resilience, green transport, carbon certification and just transition. Discover the full review 👇 #EU2024BE https://t.co/5qZ1mJeNMz

Are you a (scientific) expert on climate (or a related field), and would you like to help shape climate policy? Then join the new 'Scientific Council on Climate'. We will launch a call on 19 August. Stay tuned!

🇪🇺🇧🇪🇺🇳🇭🇺 @BelgiuminEU – A Climate Perspective #14 Final As Hungary 🇭🇺 takes over the Presidency of the @EUCouncil, we extend our best wishes for a successful and impactful semester, moving us closer to a climate-neutral and climate-resilient Europe that leaves no one behind, an

🇪🇺🇧🇪🇺🇳 @BelgiuminEU – A Climate Perspective #13 UNFCCC Throughout the 6 months of Belgium's Presidency, the Federal Climate Change Department coordinated EU participation in international climate diplomacy. Starting in Ghent in January with the traditional informal workshop, our

🇪🇺🇧🇪 @BelgiuminEU – A Climate Perspective #12 Green Claims In the lead-up to the June meeting of the @EUCouncil our team contributed to finding consensus on the Council’s position for the negotiations with the @Europarl_EN on the Green Claims Directive. The directive aims at

🇪🇺🇧🇪 @BelgiuminEU – A Climate Perspective #11 Ozone layer and F-gases The twelfth meeting of the ozone research managers in Geneva in April confirmed that evidence for ozone recovery has strengthened, especially in the upper stratosphere and over Antarctica. At the end of May

🇪🇺🇧🇪 @BelgiuminEU – A Climate Perspective #10 Resilience Adaptation and resilience were a key priority for the Belgian Presidency. Building on the @EUEnvironment’s European Climate Risk Assessment (EUCRA) and the @EU_Commission Communication ‘Managing climate risks to protect

🇪🇺🇧🇪 @BelgiuminEU – A Climate Perspective #9 Just Transition Just transition was one of the priorities of the Belgian Presidency of the EU and will be a key enabler for future EU climate policy. Looking ahead is important, but implementing the existing framework is just as

🇪🇺🇧🇪 @BelgiuminEU – A Climate Perspective #8 Fossil Fuel Subsidies The 17th June Council conclusions recalled that the phasing out of fossil fuel subsidies that do not address energy poverty or just transition without delay, is an important enabling condition for climate action.

🇪🇺🇧🇪@BelgiuminEU – A Climate Perspective #7 NECP Robust NECPs are essential for achieving the EU target of reducing emissions by 55% by 2030 and the 2050 goal of climate neutrality. While many of us were entirely committed to the Presidency over the past semester, our ‘home

🇪🇺🇧🇪 @EU2024BE – A Climate Perspective #6 Implementation Advancing towards EU climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest and the expected 2040 target, requires urgent action for the implementation of obligations on the 2030 time horizon. Our ‘home team’ worked hard to implement

🇪🇺🇧🇪 @EU2024BE – A Climate Perspective #5 2040 target One of the key achievements of the Belgian Presidency was advancing the debate on the 2040 climate target for the EU, ensuring that the EU continues to lead on global climate ambition. The 2040 target figured on the agenda

🇪🇺🇧🇪@EU2024BE – A Climate Perspective #4 Green & Just Transition To prepare the EU’s future environmental and climate policy, the Belgian Presidency facilitated the adoption on June 17th of Conclusions of the Environment @EUCouncil, reflecting inter alia the Presidency

🇧🇪 @EU2024BE – A Climate Perspective #3 Governance While many of us were entirely committed to the Presidency over the past semester, Belgium’s federal government 🇧🇪, supported by our home team, translated EU Climate Governance requirements into federal legislation, bolstering

🇧🇪 🇪🇺 By February, we managed to broker an agreement between the @EUCouncil and the @Europarl_EN on a first ever EU Carbon Removals Certification Framework, ensuring quantification, additionality, long-term storage and sustainability of permanent carbon removals, carbon farming,