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The Sámi Museum Siida was awarded the top prize at this year’s European Museum of the Year Awards, which were presented on the last day of the EMYA2024 Annual Conference in Portimão, Portugal on Saturday. Organised by the European Museum Forum and hosted by the Municipality of Portimão, the conference was centred around one main theme: “Museums in Pursuit of Social Impact”. The 2024 winner of the European Museum of the Year Award, the Sámi Museum Siida, is the national museum of the Sámi people of Finland. The Sámi people – whose ancestral lands (known as Sápmi) extend across large swathes of ...
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The toxic dust is barely settling in the wake of 2024’s Super Bowl — or rather, the "Super Polluter", whose advertising alone released as much carbon dioxide as 100,000 Americans. But millions more sporting fans are now gearing up to pump the atmosphere with more poison by travelling to the ultra-toxic F1 races, as well as the 2024 Euros and Paris Olympics. While the EU has targeted sectors in construction, energy, food, and transport to achieve its ambitious climate goals — the carbon footprint linked to travel and advertising for sporting events is being overlooked. Yes, steps are being take...
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As we try to strike a balance between the challenges of tackling climate change, promoting healthy diets and enabling farmer livelihoods, one thing is clear: sustainable agriculture is the only way forward. These three major challenges encompass the three dimensions of sustainability — social, environmental, and economic. The key question is, are we doing enough? Despite significant recent advances, there is clearly a lot more that remains to be done. It is evident that we need the European Union's support to boost food security, address important challenges within the agricultural sector, and...
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In Denmark, the tradition of using granite for gravestones has posed environmental challenges due to its heavy importation from countries like India and China, contributing significantly to CO2 emissions. However, Nikolaj Tymm-Andersen, a visionary stonemason, decided to forge a different path by replacing granite with a local resource: clay. A change for Danish cemeteriesTymm-Andersen's innovative clay gravestones, which can be fired and hardened like roof tiles, have garnered acclaim, earning him multiple European design awards. Despite this success, he aims to further reduce carbon emission...
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Switzerland comes out top as the best place to do business in Europe, according to a recent report by PwC. Most of the highest-ranking countries considered best for business were in northern Europe. PwC's Private Business Attractiveness Index 2023 looked at 33 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), judging them on nine categories and looked at 64 sets of numbers across the different categories. Judgements were from "emerging" to "leading" in each section when referring to attractiveness for private businesses. Are these the five easiest European countries to start a business? ...
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Following her recent win at the Oscars for the Barbie ballad ‘What Was I Made For?’ (and thereby becoming the youngest person to have won two Oscars at the age of 22), Billie Eilish has announced that her highly anticipated third studio album, 'Hit Me Hard and Soft', will be released on 17 May. The news arrived via Instagram, where Eilish shared the striking album artwork showing the pop singer underwater with an open door above her. In the caption, she wrote that she will not drop singles in advance of the release. “I wanna give it to you all at once,” she captioned the image. “I truly could ...
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The Belgian government has now proposed to triple a turnover threshold to cut the number of companies cut by a landmark supply chains law, Euronews has been told. Though tentatively agreed by MEPs and governments in December, the corporate sustainability due diligence directive, CSDDD, has suffered repeated setbacks, after German finance minister Christian Lindner voiced his opposition. A proposal circulated by the Belgian government in recent days would limit the CSDDD to companies with more than €450m in worldwide turnover, as it seeks to square opposition from major member states, two sourc...
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Over half of Tripadvisor’s users say that helping the environment is important to them and sustainability increasingly factors into travellers’ choices about where to go. When it comes to beaches, this means clear waters, clean sand and environmentally friendly initiatives. Each year, Tripadvisor releases a ranking of the world’s best beaches with European destinations topping the list in 2024. For the first time, this year’s ranking also includes a category for the most sustainable beaches. Travel sustainability company BeCause provided data from beaches awarded the prestigious Blue Flag - ma...
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Negotiators are seeking a last-ditch compromise on new EU corporate supply-chain rules, as opposition from Italy and Germany and looming elections threaten to quash hopes for the environmental law. The bloc’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) would require companies to check their supply chains for poor working conditions or pollution – but was blocked by major EU nations, led by German finance minister Christian Lindner. In a document dated 5 March and seen by Euronews, the Belgian government – which currently chairs the EU Council grouping of member states – is seeking...
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For the past year, Fiona McArthur has been carefully studying every film that comes out in theatres – jotting down notes as she watched each of them in the dark art deco cinema in Campbeltown, Scotland. “I looked like the pretentious person in the cinema with my notebook and pen,” she joked. But McArthur had a mission, and she took it very seriously – to come up with a creative way to represent the next year’s Oscars’ Best Picture nominees in her handmade, luxury chocolates. Last February, McArthur and her artisanal chocolate shop Fetcha Chocolates were approached to make chocolates for the Ac...
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