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The Campus brings together Europe's security community to test technologies and deploy them swiftly.

Smarter rules, bigger returns: JRC assesses the economic impact of the European Innovation Act.

JRC and Europol assess opportunities and challenges of technologies like AI and encrypted computing.

Nevertheless, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reached a record high.

Exceptionally dry and hot weather threatens summer crops

A first pan-European assessment reveals the extent of freshwater salinisation across European rivers, identifying widespread salinisation and hotspots where management action is needed.

With another summer of extreme heat, water scarcity and drought, the EU is calling for stronger global action to restore degraded land, strengthen drought resilience and protect water resources at the UNCCD COP17.

Drought affects large parts of Europe since spring, with forecast reporting warmer and drier weather into September, with continued risk of heatwaves. 

New research maps building energy vulnerability globally, showing where the risk of living in hard-to-climatise buildings can be higher. 

The report provides up-to-date evidence on population trends across the EU

Effects are expected to be up to 2.5 times more severe for the poorest households, compared to the richest ones.

Between 2011 and 2025, plastic was the only packaging category that was on the rise.

The JRC sets out how to harness the clean transition, boosting jobs, enhancing security and protecting our environment.

Effective integration of citizen engagement processes into governance, economic and societal processes is key to achieve lasting public-sector capability and trust.

Eight in ten euros of RRF digital investment directly supports Digital Decade 2030 targets .

In the coming months the El Niño climate phenomenon will occur and will worsen conditions across many regions of the world.

JRC lists products, components and waste streams with potential for the recovery of critical raw materials.

Macroeconomic modelling shows that EU inflation could rise to 3.5% in 2027.

Average economic losses from floods with compounding hazards are almost three times higher than losses from floods alone.