Day: February 19, 2022

‘Trees for Life’: call now open for cities and regions to join the EU’s pledge to plant 3 billion trees by 2030

​​​​​​The president of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), Apostolos Tzitzikostas, and the new chairwoman of the CoR’s ENVE commission and Green Deal Going Local working group, Kata Tüttő, on 17 February launched Trees for Life, a call to action for all CoR members – but also cities and

Action at local level will ensure the success of the EU missions and the New European Bauhaus initiative

​Adapting to climate change, protecting water, greening cities, ensuring healthy food and fighting cancer are some of today’s major challenges that EU missions, launched by the European Commission, seek to address. Markku Markkula (FI/EPP), rapporteur for the European Committee of the Regions’ opinion on the subject and member of Espoo