IATE Term of the Week: Smart Villages strategy
This week we will talk about “Smart Villages strategy”. To begin with, there is not a fixed definition of what a “Smart Village” is....
IATE Term of the Week: Horizon Europe
The challenge that confronts us today is to recover from the sanitary, economic and emotional distress that the COVID-19 pandemic has put everyone through....
IATE Term of the Week: Carbon Leakage
Carbon Leakage is a term that originated within the walls of EU institutions. It is a phenomenon that happens when businesses generating a high...
IATE Term Of The Week: Single-use plastic
The EU is tackling single-use plastic products (SUPs) and is promoting sustainable alternatives. Single-use plastic items are often used once, or for a short...
IATE Term of the Week: New European Bauhaus
On 18 January 2021, the European Commission launched the first phase of the New European Bauhaus. The initiative will spark a debate about Europe's...
IATE Term of the Week: Green Public Procurement
What is Green Public Procurement?
Green Public Procurement (GPP), also known as Green Purchasing, plays the key role in the EU’s attempt to become a...
IATE Term of the Week: Green Bond
Most of us have heard of bonds, fixed income instruments that represent loans made by an investor to a borrower, usually corporate or governmental....
IATE Term of the Week: Oil Spill
On 25 July, the MV Wakashio, a Japanese owned cargo ship travelling from China to Brazil ran aground on a coral reef on the...
IATE Term of the Week: European Climate Law
On 4 March 2020, the European Commission presented the European Climate Law. As one of the measures taken as part of the European Green...
IATE Term of the Week: Hydrogen Economy
The ‘Hydrogen Economy’ is a relatively new type of industry. It is a sunrise industry which uses hydrogen, a low carbon fuel, for heat...