Brussels, 11th December 2024 – The European Bee Award celebrated its 11th edition with a ceremony held at the European Parliament, hosted by MEP Paulo do Nascimento Cabral. This year, the spotlight was on innovative and collaborative initiatives t...

Brussels, March 26, Adrien Rogissart from the French project “Halage” has been honored as the winner of the prestigious Land and Soil Management Award 2024. The award was presented during the Gala Dinner of the Forum for the Future of Agricultur...

This manifesto outlines our priorities ahead of the European elections, urging policymakers to recognize the central role of landowners in shaping a prosperous and harmonious future for Europe. “We are living in challenging times, where int...

The Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) meets in December against the least promising backdrop for many years, both politically (Ukraine, tensions between US and China, and a widespread feelingthat the host...

With a ceremony held at the European Parliament and hosted by MEP Franc Bogovič, the award recognized a scalable model for pollinators’ habitat restoration and recreation, and a novel peptide bioinsecticide. Brussels, 29th November 2023 – Th...

ELO welcomes the European Commission’s proposal for a Directive on Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Law). We particularly appreciate that it is a directive that focuses on monitoring, thus recognizing the diversity, complexity, ...

ELO has been supporting the establishment of a Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF) even before the proposal emerged, as it has the potential to become the most well-established European scheme of Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES). The p...

Brussels, July 5, 2023 — The European Landowners’ Organization (ELO) welcomes the commission’s proposal on the new soil monitoring and resilience directive and the recognition of European soils’ diversity, complexity and mystery, particu...

The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: Bringing nature back into our lives includes as one of its flagship targets to plant “at least billion additional trees in the EU by 2030, in full respect of ecological principles”. It is announced th...