![Future shocks 2023: Biodiversity loss or collapse [Policy podcast] @EuroparlResearchService](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/A1lLoy9mYwI/maxresdefault.jpg)
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More than any other continent, Europe's biodiversity has been shaped by human activities and is under constant pressure from human production and consumption. Changes in ecosystem services that are essential to human life affect livelihoods, incomes and local migration, and can even cause or exacerbate political conflict. Despite significant efforts, the latest European Environment Agency assessment shows that the vast majority of EU habitats (81 %) and species (63 %) have poor or bad conservation status.
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More than any other continent, Europe's biodiversity has been shaped by human activities and is under constant pressure from human production and consumption. Changes in ecosystem services that are essential to human life affect livelihoods, incomes and local migration, and can even cause or exacerbate political conflict. Despite significant efforts, the latest European Environment Agency assessment shows that the vast majority of EU habitats (81 %) and species (63 %) have poor or bad conservation status.
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![Future shocks 2023: Biodiversity loss or collapse [Policy podcast]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/A1lLoy9mYwI/mqdefault.jpg "Future shocks 2023: Biodiversity loss or collapse [Policy podcast]
More than any other continent, Europes biodiversity has been shaped by human activities and is under constant pressure from human production and consumption. Changes in ecosystem services that are essential to human life affect livelihoods, incomes and local migration, and can even cause or exacerbate political conflict. Despite significant efforts, the latest European Environment Agency assessment shows that the vast majority of EU habitats (81 %) and species (63 %) have poor or bad conservation status.
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![CO₂ emission standards and reporting obligations for new heavy-duty vehicles [Policy podcast]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AbmqUZACR90/mqdefault.jpg "CO₂ emission standards and reporting obligations for new heavy-duty vehicles [Policy podcast]
Road transport is a major contributor to climate change, accounting for over a quarter of road transport CO2 emissions. The European Commission proposes to revise the legislation setting CO2 emission standards for new heavy-duty vehicles in the EU. The proposed revision would expand the scope of the existing regulation to include urban buses, coaches, trailers and other types of lorries. It will also require that the average CO2 emissions of heavy-duty vehicles, would have to fall by 45 % from 2030, by 65 % from 2035, and by 90 % from 2040 onwards, compared with 2019 levels.
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https://epthinktank.eu/2023/05/04/co%e2%82%82-emission-performance-standards-and-reporting-obligations-for-new-heavy-duty-vehicles-eu-legislation-in-progress/
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![What if generative artificial intelligence became conscious? [Science and Technology Podcast]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/C4uoNxPxKMk/mqdefault.jpg "What if generative artificial intelligence became conscious? [Science and Technology Podcast]
Generative artificial intelligence applications, such as ChatGPT, are powered through complex learning processes by comprehensive datasets of – potentially dubious – human-created content. There are concerns that such tools could develop consciousness and spark emergent behaviour that is, by definition, unpredictable and therefore potentially unsafe. Do these concerns point to a need to look again at the relevant legislation?
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![Confirmation hearings of the Commissioners-designate [Policy Podcast]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DDNWqxvLVMg/mqdefault.jpg "Confirmation hearings of the Commissioners-designate [Policy Podcast]
Ahead of the autumn 2024 Commissioners-designate hearings, Parliament has adapted the rules for the process, which will apply for the members of the second von der Leyen College. Since the 2004 investiture, Parliament has used its role in appointing the Commission to replace certain controversial candidates and force adjustments to certain portfolios, although according to the Treaties Parliament can only reject or accept the College as a whole. Confirmation hearings have become critical for Parliament to hold the Commission accountable, and have gained prominence as a tool for Parliament to take a greater role in EU agenda-setting.
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Confirmation hearings of the Commissioners-designate: A decisive step in the investiture process
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2024/762400/EPRS_BRI(2024)762400_EN.pdf
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