Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights and the Environment in Europe
As part of the project, we are strengthening the capacity of civil society to advocate jointly and effectively for stricter corporate responsibility legislation. In the first half of the project, our main objective was to ensure that the Omnibus I Directive retained key elements of human rights and environmental protection, as set out in the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). To achieve this, we actively involved ourselves in the legislative process and exchanged knowledge and views with the European network of non-governmental organisations and various stakeholders. In the second half of the project, our focus is on creating [več ...]
Food for Tomorrow
The goal of the Food for Tomorrow project is to address the challenges of sustainable nutrition and raise awareness of its impact on the environment and society. Together with our colleagues from Radio Študent, MMC RTV, and the Kersnikova Institute, we will create a series of media publications and events during the project with the aim of raising awareness (especially among young people) about the issue of sustainable food. Bon appétit! Research has shown that young people are interested in sustainable eating, but they mostly obtain information from their peers and from documentary films. Changes in eating habits [več ...]
Transforming Transport: Climate Action Meets Social Equity
Stricter environmental policies at the EU level, which are key to decarbonizing the transport sector and addressing climate change, may adversely affect low-income and other vulnerable populations, as they often cannot afford the "green transition." This is fuelling opposition to European climate measures in less developed regions, particularly in rural areas of the eastern and southern EU Member States. The EU and its Member States thus face a double challenge: how to decarbonize transport while making it more accessible to those most at risk of transport poverty. To successfully address this challenge, it is essential to increase understanding of [več ...]
Reboot
Rebooting the food system. Towards a more inclusive society with a sense of shared responsibility for sustainable food supply chains at local and global levels, addressing global inequalities and ecological crises. The global food system is facing a multitude of challenges. It is both a victim of and a major contributor to the environmental and climate crises, and it plays a role in human rights violations in global food chains. We can no longer accept the fact that globalized food production and consumption are harming people and the planet. The EU has already taken an important step by introducing [več ...]
LIFE Plan4Climate
The aim of the LIFE Plan4Climate project is to accelerate the implementation of climate and energy policies in EU Member States and increase their level of ambition by 2030, in order to achieve climate neutrality and ensure the EU’s fair contribution to the objectives of the Paris Agreement. The project focuses on strengthening climate governance, improving public participation, and increasing social support for a just climate transition, particularly within the framework of National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) and Social Climate Plans. The LIFE Plan4Climate project will strengthen climate action in several ways: by monitoring the implementation of existing measures [več ...]
LIFE4ADAPT
LIFE4ADAPT - Adapting to climate change LIFE4ADAPT is Slovenia's strategic integrated project for adaptation to climate change. The aim of the project is to contribute to the overall implementation of the national climate change adaptation strategy. Within the project, partners will develop solutions for effective adaptation to the increasing frequency of extreme weather events and long-term environmental change. The project comprises the following key activities: upgrading climate services at the Slovenian Environment Agency, strengthening inter-departmental cooperation, upgrading the Climate Portal, capacity building and support for climate change adaptation measures for regions and municipalities, supported by activities for the implementation [več ...]
SOCIALNRG
Energy poverty affects many households in Europe, and current solutions are often limited to short-term financial assistance. But short-term solutions are not enough to ensure a sustainable and equitable energy transition that does not leave millions of vulnerable energy poor households behind.The SOCIALNRG project aims to develop, test and verify a new and fully scalable approach to be applied in three pilot social housing communities in Slovenia, Italy and Belgium. The approach will be based on three pillars: building cooperation to create or adapt existing energy communities, fostering peer exchange and learning, and making recommendations to tackle barriers at policy [več ...]
GENDER4POWER
Generating Equity, Nurturing Diversity, Energising Resilience 4 Power Against Energy Poverty The GENDER4POWER project aims to enhance living conditions and energy efficiency in buildings (and households) affected by energy poverty. It emphasizes a holistic gender-responsive, multi-stakeholder, and people-centered approach to renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions, aligning with EU strategies such as the Gender Equality Strategy and the Energy Efficiency Directive. GENDER4POWER aspires to demonstrate the potential of gender-responsive projects in meeting EU strategies. By incorporating gender mainstreaming and intersectionality and by involving citizens, the project aims to enhance public acceptance and community trust, bridge social networks, and ensure active [več ...]
Life COMET
Coalitions for Community Energy Catalysation in Eastern EU Life COMET will catalyze the mapping and capacity building of community energy stakeholders across Eastern EU, with the aim of forming community energy coalitions on national levels. The project aims at shaping a future of enhanced community energy: collaborating to build strong national coalitions, elevating community energy to new heights, and enabling empowering frameworks and services for organisational growth and impact in Eastern EU. Focus leads capacity-building activities for key stakeholders in the field of energy communities. We will build national energy community coalitions by identifying, involving and empowering relevant national [več ...]
Enough for All
The activities of the platform Enough for All – Sustainable Management of Community Resources for the period 2019–2026 take place in the framework of the LIFE IP CARE4CLIMATE project (LIFE17 IPC/SI/000007). It is an integral project that employs awareness-raising, education and training of key stakeholders to promote the implementation of measures that will help Slovenia reduce greenhouse gas emissions more effectively by 2030, i.e. a transition to a low-carbon society as quickly as possible. The platform Enough for All – Sustainable Management of Community Resources is based on the idea that we cannot ensure our wellbeing as individuals, but [več ...]
LIFE IP CARE4CLIMATE
LIFE IP CARE4CLIMATE - an integral project that will use awareness campaigns, education and training of key stakeholders to encourage the implementation of measures that will enable Slovenia to achieve its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. Focus implements or participates in the implementation of the following project activities: raising awareness of climate change and its impacts on Slovenia, and promoting good practices in the field greenhouse gas emissions reductions; providing support to local communities for the transition to a low-carbon society – including through a Focus-managed online platform for sustainable management of community resources www.dovoljzavse.si; capacity building for low-carbon [več ...]
