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Plusieurs pays d'Afrique de l'Est sont frappés ces dernières semaines par de fortes précipitations qui ont déjà fait plus de 150 morts en Tanzanie. Des intempéries record causées par une combinaison de la saison des pluies et d'un nouvel épisode du phénomène climatique El Niño.

Le Parti populaire européen (PPE) de centre droit, les Conservateurs et Réformistes européens (CRE) et le groupe Identité et Démocratie (ID) au Parlement européen ont voté contre une proposition qui aurait rendu obligatoire une formation contre le harcèlement pour les eurodéputés.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) a accusé les forces armées du Burkina Faso, aux prises avec les groupes armés jihadistes, d'avoir "exécuté au moins 223 civils" dont au moins 56 enfants lors de deux attaques dans le nord du pays, dans un rapport publié jeudi.

The Consultation Forum for Sustainable Energy in the Defence and Security Sector (CF SEDSS), has marked the end of its third phase, running from 2019 to 2024, playing its part in the European Union’s Green Deal to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

With initiatives to improve energy efficiency in the military, as well as pilot projects to optimise energy use in buildings and efforts to electrify transport within defence facilities, Phase III generated over 30 project ideas and 15 research studies. Initiatives also included integrating hydrogen fuel technology in military vehicles and  promote military behavioural change among military personnel.

The European Defence Agency (EDA) and the Commission’s Directorate-General for Energy (DG ENER) organised the CF SEDSS III Dissemination Conference on 25 April 2024 under the auspices of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and hosted by the Ministry of Defence of Belgium.

The CF SEDSS is a Commission-funded initiative managed by the EDA. It is Europe’s largest defence energy community, reinforcing the defence sector's involvement in the energy transition. It will now move to Phase IV, running until 2028. The forum focuses on four interrelated areas: energy efficiency and buildings performance; renewable energy sources; protection of defence-related critical energy infrastructure; and policy, research and technology, and funding for defence energy-related projects.

“It is more crucial than ever to fully embrace a spirit of sustainability in our defence policies. Climate change also highlights the need to diversify our energy sources,” Belgium’s Minister of Defence Ludivine Dedonder told the conference. “The Member States of the European Union, through the Green Deal, have committed to achieving climate neutrality by 2050. Defence can play a crucial role by integrating the fight against climate change into its operations and by developing skills to meet the new environmental challenges.”

EDA Deputy Chief Executive André Denk said that the next phase of the Consultation Forum would be crucial. “The EU’s goal to become climate neutral by 2050 cannot be achieved without the engagement of the defence sector – defence may be responsible for up to 5.5% of the world’s total CO2 emissions. More energy sustainability in defence means also less costs, less reliance on fossil fuels, and increased resilience.” 

Paloma Aba Garrote, Director, European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA), said that: “Europe’s defence and security sector is crucial to achieving the EU Green Deal targets of energy efficiency, renewables deployment and decarbonisation of the economy.”

In total, seven plenary conferences were organised during Phase III, including two onsite exhibitions, as well as workshops and ad-hoc meetings. EDA organised the first CF SEDSS table-top exercise to assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in critical energy infrastructure related to defence in the face of hybrid threats.

These efforts have collectively supported EU goals in energy and climate, highlighted by the development of the Symbiosis project, which will identify and address barriers for offshore renewable energy developments in areas used or reserved for present and future military activities and purposes.

The Forum's contributions are acknowledged in high-level EU documents such as the Progress Report of the EU Climate Change and Defence Roadmap, the Action Plan on Military Mobility and the EU Joint Communication on Climate Change.

To read more about the CF SEDSS  

• Greening Defence with Innovation: 2nd Energy Technology Solutions Conference & Exhibition (europa.eu)  

• EDA green defence forum reaches highest level of participation (europa.eu)  

• Defence and energy communities step up efforts on sustainable energy and publish new ground-breaking climate change study (europa.eu)  

• Climate change and EU defence: released new report analysing the links between climate, energy and defence (europa.eu)  

• EDA-led energy forum meets to reduce defence carbon footprint (europa.eu)  

• Fifth Consultation Forum meets in Prague to promote sustainable energy in defence (europa.eu)  

 

Das EU-Parlament hat am Mittwoch (24. April) mit großer Mehrheit neue Vorschriften zur Verringerung von Verpackungsabfällen verabschiedet. Dies soll unter anderem durch die Förderung der Wiederverwendung und des Recyclings bestimmter Verpackungsarten erreicht werden.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced on 24 April that a reception ceremony for an early warning aircraft had been held at Al-Dhafra...

D’après un document de discussion informel consulté par Euractiv, l’Allemagne et la France souhaitent rendre la collaboration sur les projets de défense plus attrayante, notamment en réduisant la charge administrative.

Depuis la Sorbonne jeudi (25 avril), le président de la République, Emmanuel Macron a déclaré que l’UE devait s’imaginer en « puissance électrique » et assumer de relancer l'énergie nucléaire.

A Moroccan club is awarded the win after their kit was confiscated by Algerian customs officials.

Les dirigeants du Burkina Faso, du Mali et du Niger ont annoncé la création d'une alliance sécuritaire pour faire face aux groupes armés.

East Africa is being pounded by unusually heavy rains linked to a combination of global weather events.

Die Mitte-Rechts-Fraktion der Europäischen Volkspartei (EVP), die Europäischen Konservativen und Reformer (EKR) und die Fraktion Identität und Demokratie (ID) haben gegen einen Vorschlag gestimmt, der die Einführung einer obligatorischen Anti-Belästigungs-Schulung für Europaabgeordnete vorsieht.

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A manhunt is launched after more than 100 inmates escape the colonial-era facility near Abuja.

Le Parlement européen a adopté à une large majorité mercredi de nouvelles règles visant à réduire les déchets d’emballages, en partie en encourageant la réutilisation et le recyclage de certains types d’emballages.

Photos of the three naked tourists have gone viral in Namibia, angering the authorities.

Thursday, 25 April

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Thursday, 25 April

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Thursday, 25 April

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