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Biodiversity in Standards and Labels for the Food Industry (LIFEBioStandards)

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

Background The EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 underlines the importance of motivating the corporate sector to reduce its negative impacts on biodiversity. Intensive agriculture is one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss, through the use of heavy machinery, pesticides and synthetic nitrogen fertilisers, land consolidation, drainage, etc. Therefore, ...
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CITIZENS FOR ENERGY TRANSITION: Educating citizens on the energy transition, improving practices and multiplying efforts

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The ‘Energy Transition’ concerns the move from the current energy system, dominated by fossil fuels, towards one dominated instead by renewable sources, in which energy efficiency and energy conservation practices are embedded. The “Citizens 4 Energy Transition” (C4ET) project aims to encourage citizen participation in the energy transition by improving and multiplying actions being implemented to ...
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Partnership for Biodiversity Protection in Viticulture in Europe

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The loss of biodiversity, alongside climate change, is currently one of the largest and most important challenges. It is believed that the current rate of species extinction, due to human influences, is several times higher than the natural extinction rate. Agriculture is the most important land use in Europe, with around 50% of the surface used for agricultural production. The relationship betwee ...
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European Business and Biodiversity Campaign (B+B Campaign)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

... and regional initiatives; Disseminate information and demonstrate methodologies and tools that help businesses to assess and mitigate their impacts on biodiversity; Refine the global challenge of loss of biodiversity at the local level and motivate and support concrete action at local and regional level by SMEs. Results ...
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Living Lakes: Sustainable Management of wetlands and shallow lakes (Living Lakes)

Start date: Jul 1, 2001, End date: Oct 31, 2004,

Background Wetlands are among the most important and yet most threatened ecosystems in Europe. They are a precious part of our cultural and natural heritage, providing an extremely important resource for many human interests and activities, as well as habitats that support a rich diversity of animal and plant life. Wetlands are able to absorb precipitatio ...
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