This year’s Poul la Cour Award goes to Anne Velenturf, a Senior Research Fellow in Circular Economy at the University of Leeds. She has conducted important research in the fields of recyclability of renewables infrastructure and the circular economy. And her work contributes greatly to a sustainable wind industry development.

The European Parliament has adopted a report calling for increased use of off-patent medicines in Europe to improve patient access, highlighting lessons learned during the Covid-19 pandemic and urging the European institutions to address them directly in future healthcare policy initiatives.

COP26 may have focused on big business, but 90% are small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which is why ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and CA ANZ (Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand) are equipping accountants with a new playbook to help them and their SME clients achieve their sustainability goals.

The S&D Group is backing a strong message from the European Parliament that says: “we need migration” in the EU, especially in responding to big labour market shortages in the future.

S&D MEPs believe reducing barriers to legal migration is the most effective way to close the skills shortages gap across EU labour markets, while are the same time ending the exploitation of migrant workers and reducing the number of irregular migrants to the EU.