#Fridayfacts! The weather in #Europe is getting more extreme because of #climatechange.
#Summer2023 is no exception. Which of the following is the deadliest?
#heatwave #flooding #forestfire #landslide
Answer⬇️
https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/news/what-could-the-summer-bring
@UNFCCC @EU_Commission @EUClimateAction

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUEnvironment/status/1690011695488303104

#FridayFacts: Across Europe, #freshwater resources are threatened by multiple pressures such as #agriculture, industrial & #energy use, public #water supply & #tourism.
What percentage of the population in southern Europe lives in areas experiencing permanent water stress? 💧

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUEnvironment/status/1679812234652819457

Time for our #Fridayfacts: Which of the following EU 🇪🇺country generated the largest amount of waste🗑️per person in 2020 (excluding mineral waste)?
More info & the answer can be found in our #EEAindicator on #wastegeneration ⬇️: https://www.eea.europa.eu/ims/waste-generation-and-decoupling-in-europe

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUEnvironment/status/1677292854719270915

#FridayFacts: The average CO2 emissions of new cars & vans in Europe dropped in 2022, according to provisional data.
Why? 👉The continued growth in the share of electric car registrations.
Of all the new cars registered in 2022, what percentage was full electric (not hybrid)?

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUEnvironment/status/1672185950418419713

#FridayFacts: Our latest briefing, done in collaboration with the European Commission, confirms the continued high quality of bathing water in the EU. 🇪🇺

Which country reported the highest increase in the total number of designated bathing water sites in 2022 compare to 2021?

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUEnvironment/status/1667147167050485760

Essential for Europe's #sustainability transition, eco-innovations reduce environmental impacts, increase resilience and make resource-use more efficient.
#FridayFacts question: Which country was on the top of the EU eco-innovation index in 2022?

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUEnvironment/status/1662033103450173443

#FridayFacts - on #circulareconomy ♻️: How much of the #materials used in the 🇪🇺EU #economy came from #recycledmaterials in 2021?

More info and the correct answer are available in #EEAbriefing: https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/how-far-is-europe-from
#circularmaterials #recycling

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUEnvironment/status/1659483207362916352

Policies to reduce #airpollution have led to improved #airquality in Europe over the past decades. #FridayFacts: Which European capital had the cleanest air in 2021-2022?

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUEnvironment/status/1651879070097915912

It's Friday, which means its time for our #FridayFacts quiz (the correct answer can be found in our latest Briefing on Chemicals - https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/managing-the-systemic-use-of ). From 2004 to 2020, EU production of chemicals known to be hazardous to health fell by:

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUEnvironment/status/1646833462085574658

It's time for our latest #FridayFacts quiz! This week we focus on the health of our #forests 🌲🍃
🔎What is expected to become the greatest threat to the health of #Europeanforests in the coming years?

More information on this week's answer: https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/news/keeping-europes-forests-healthy-will-require-long-term-sustainable-practices-action-on-climate-change

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUEnvironment/status/1641739157645979648

This week we have published a very interesting briefing about Exiting the anthropocene: https://lnkd.in/eedpESd7 Our #fridayfacts question is: What is the name of the philosophy according to which all living beings have intrinsic value, regardless of their utility to humans?

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUEnvironment/status/1639244723452821510

This week the @europarl_en backed plans for a #climate neutral #EU building sector by 2050.
Our #FridayFacts question: What share of EU's final #energyconsumption went to #heating and #cooling buildings in 2020?

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUEnvironment/status/1636671376370065408

#FridayFacts! Since 1970, 640 non-indigenous species (not including microalgae, pathogens and parasites) have invaded European waters.

Which group contains the majority of Europe’s invasive marine species?

Answer: https://www.eea.europa.eu/ims/marine-non-indigenous-species-in

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUEnvironment/status/1634166067869151233

It's time again for #FridayFacts!

The share of the EU’s #agricultural land being #organically farmed is increasing.

In 2020, what percentage of the EU’s agricultural land was organically farmed?

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUEnvironment/status/1626592176368152578

In search of #FridayReads this #FridayMorning?

Check out my #FridayThoughts on the #UnitedStates House of Representatives passing a bipartisan resolution “Denouncing the horrors of socialism” last Thursday.

#AutisticPride #FridayFeeling #FridayVibes #WeCanDoBetterThanCapitalism #GoCoOp #Socialism #Anarchism #Communism #Leftist #FridayFacts

https://www.mankatofreepress.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/denounce-the-horrors-of-capitalism-not-socialism/article_140f0d18-a7e9-11ed-ae89-53eb854a996a.html

#FridayFacts #Greenhouse gas emissions from producing #electricity in the EU declined dramatically since 1990 to 2021. But, by what percentage?

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUEnvironment/status/1624038076778442759

#FridayFacts! In the period 2005-2019, the share of total passenger transport demand met by collective passenger transport modes, such as buses & trains, in the EU-27 remained almost constant.

So how much of the demand was met by collective transport?

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUEnvironment/status/1621544636471812101

It's again time for #FridayFacts!
Water scarcity has worsened in Europe during the past decade and, in general, the problem is more common in southern Europe.
Can you guess what share of the population in southern Europe lives in areas with permanent water stress? 🤔

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUEnvironment/status/1616374557178208256

#FridayFacts! The share of #energy from #renewable sources used for #transport in the EU has steadily increased between 2005 and 2020.

In 2020, what percentage of the total energy used in transport in the EU came from renewable sources?

Answer➡️ https://lnkd.in/dMnGDmNc

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUEnvironment/status/1613897279852740608

Ready for this year’s first #FridayFacts?

The waste #recyclingrate is growing in the EU-27, driven by EU binding #recycling targets.

Which #waste stream had the lowest recycling rate in Europe in 2020?

Correct answer 👉 https://lnkd.in/dnWRaig9

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUEnvironment/status/1611387611423064066