The new EU soil strategy for 2030 is a key deliverable of the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030. It will contribute to the objectives of the European Green Deal. Healthy soils are essential for achieving climate neutrality, a clean and circular economy and halting desertification… Read More

The Scottish production company MacTV is producing a documentary series about peat. The Netherlands was exploiting peat’s industrial potential from the 13th Century. Without any large seams of coal, the country’s huge sugar and salt refining industries depended on peat to fuel them. Centuries of… Read More

Despite skyrocketing energy prices and a shortage of natural gas supply in the European Union, the Dutch government has taken the decision to proceed with the closure of natural gas wells in the northern province Groningen region. The field is one of the biggest in… Read More

From restrictions on Airbnb and listings to outright bans on certain activities, Amsterdam is having to adapt in order to deal with mass tourism. According to current estimates, Amsterdam attracts over 15 million visitors per year. This massive influx of tourists impacts daily life in… Read More

The Ukraine Accountability Conference is organized by the Netherlands, the International Criminal Court (ICC), and the European Commission. The conference aims to ensure that those committing war crimes in Ukraine are brought to justice. The Dutch military police is just back from a mission in… Read More

The Scottish BBC Gaelic program Eorpa produces an extensive report on Brexit and what the effects of any Brexit deal will have on Scotland and on the countries in the EU that trade a lot with the UK, such as the Netherlands. An Eorpa crew… Read More

On 20 December 2019, the Dutch Supreme Court, the highest court in the Netherlands, upheld the previous decisions in the so called Urgenda Climate Case, finding that the Dutch government has obligations to urgently and significantly reduce emissions in line with its human rights obligations…. Read More

Serres Séparées is a Covid-19-inspired extension of the Amsterdam art centre Mediamatic’s restaurant. Waterfront greenhouses have been transformed into private dining rooms. The name was inspired by the French chambre séparée; a room in a bar or restaurant that suggests a sexy form of intimacy…. Read More

For a second documentary about the corona virus the Japanese public channel NHK wants to give more attention to the Dutch 100 families research and to the fact that in the Netherlands youth can restart sport training again. A father and a son explain how… Read More

The Japanese public channel NHK is producing a documentary about the way the corona virus and corona crisis is handled worldwide. In the Netherlands they want to know why the Dutch choose for an intelligent lockdown and what research is done at 100 Dutch families… Read More

A court ruling has forced the Netherlands to promptly deal with its high nitrogen emissions. The Dutch government has decided to cut speed limits on high ways and farmers have rallied in the streets to protest against the plan to reduce livestock numbers. Most of… Read More

The British production company Wall to Wall produces ‘Fining My Family: Holocaust’, a two-part series for BBC 1 which will follow the British families of those who experienced the Holocaust re-trace their parents and grandparents’ steps. Watford Grammar schoolgirl Maggie Fleet, 14, accompanied her “opa”,… Read More