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EEA launches ‘Our environment : Our future’ campaign | Press releases
Do you have a story to share about how you made a positive difference, improving our environment and helping to build a more sustainable future? Then why not submit it and take part in the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) ‘Our environment : Our future’ outreach campaign? Tell us about Europe’s environment through your actions and in your own words.
Millions of Europeans are already making a positive difference through their actions. The EEA citizen stories campaign ‘Our environment : Our future’ aims to recognise their efforts and inspire others to do the same to improve the environment.
These actions can be as small as fixing a shirt, so it lasts longer, or bigger like organising local clean-up day in your community. They can be as ordinary as a new recipe to reduce your family’s food waste or as extraordinary as setting up a community garden, creating a wildflower patch in your backyard for pollinators or planting trees.
What we are looking for
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Inspiring actions you personally took part in, which can be captured in a few sentences — between 500 and 1000 characters.
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Each story should ideally describe a short observation of the issue which your actions aimed to address.
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It should focus on the positive difference you made. It should include general references to a given location and other relevant information.
Why participate
A selection of stories submitted online will be used in the EEA’s communication activities to showcase the many positive actions Europeans are taking to improve our environment — and which are linked to our work here at the EEA.
How to enter
You can submit your story via our online form in any of the official languages of the EEA member countries or post it on your social media using #OurEnvironmentOurFutureEU before 30 September 2025.
Please carefully read our Campaign rules and Terms and Conditions before applying.
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Thousands flee amid renewed fighting in northern Mozambique, UN warns
The surge in displacement in late September marks a turning point in the conflict – now entering its eighth year – with more than 100,000 people already uprooted during 2025.
The violence in Cabo Delgado began in 2017, led by armed groups locally known as al-Shabaab – unrelated to the Somali Islamist militia of the same name. The conflict has evolved into a complex crisis compounded by the effects of repeated cyclones, floods and drought that have devastated livelihoods.
For the first time since hostilities began, all 17 districts of Cabo Delgado have been directly affected, and more than 1.3 million people have been displaced – many multiple times.
“Families are reaching their limit,” Xavier Creach, head of UNHCR in Mozambique said, noting that some who once hosted the displaced are now fleeing themselves.
Civilians continue to be targeted amid reports of killings, abductions and sexual violence, while children face the risk of forced recruitment.
Women and girls most at risk
Women and girls are especially vulnerable when collecting water or firewood, and those with disabilities or older persons often cannot flee the violence. Many are traumatised and urgently need psychosocial support, Mr. Créach added.
The violence has sharply intensified this year, with more than 500 incidents recorded through August – surpassing even the peaks of 2022 – including raids, abductions and the destruction of homes and infrastructure.
UNHCR says the new wave of displacement in Mozambique is one of the largest recorded in the last eight years.
Health system under siege
The humanitarian fallout has been compounded by the collapse of health services across the north.
According to the World Health Organization-led response, around 60 per cent of facilities in the worst-affected districts are non-functional due to insecurity, looting and staff displacement.
Essential services such as maternity care, HIV treatment and emergency response have been severely disrupted.
In Mocímboa da Praia, the only hospital is operating with less than 10 per cent of its staff – mostly volunteers struggling to keep the emergency room and maternity ward open.
Aid groups warn that disease risks are mounting, with malaria and cholera cases expected to rise as the rainy season begins.
Severe funding shortfall
The health sector’s annual response plan is only 11 per cent funded for this year, leaving stocks of essential medicines critically low.
UNHCR also faces severe funding shortfalls. It has received only $66 million of the $352 million required for its Mozambique operations this year, leaving response capacity “stretched just as needs rise.”
Press briefings – Economic and Financial Affairs Council of 10 October 2025 and Justice and Home Affairs Council of 13 and 14 October 2025
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Two years of Gaza-Israel bring “indescribable” pain, warn the aid agencies
“Pain is indescribable” on the anniversary of “odious” attacks, said The UN chief of the UN Tom Fletcher.
“I renew my call to the immediately unconditional release of all hostages-and until then, they must be treated with humanity,” he continued. “Civilians all over the world should be protected.”
Mr. Fletcher underlined the fact that since October 7, 2023, tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed and “hundreds of thousands of people endure famine and displacement”.
Call the ceasefire and responsibility
Philippe Lazzarini, general commissioner of the United Nations Aid Agency for the Palestinians, UNRWAsaid the Gazans lived “two long years of destruction, movement, bombing, fear, death and hunger”. In a declaration Posted on XHe again called for the release of all Palestinian hostages and detainees, an immediate cease-fire and on the unhindered delivery of large-scale humanitarian supplies, including via UNRWA.
He also urged the responsibility of the atrocities committed on and after October 7, 2023, saying that there was “no other way to get out of this abyss and this chaos”.
October 7 Terror
More than 1,250 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed in Hamas terrorist attacks and other armed groups on October 7, 2023 and more than 250 others were taken hostage.
More than 66,000 Palestinians were subsequently killed in the war in Gaza, according to local health authorities.
In the midst of violence and air strikes, the United Nations humanitarian and health officials said on Tuesday that the children paid the heaviest price, with tens of thousands of people killed, mutilated or seriously ill -nourished, while the hospitals and the Gaza clinics go to the total collapse.
Death of unacceptable children: Unicef
Speaking Tuesday in Geneva, Ricardo worse from the United Nations Fund for the United Nations (Unicef) argued that Israel’s “disproportionate response” had left children suffering “in their too long body and mind”. He told journalists that 61,000 children have been killed or mutilated since October 2023 – a child every 17 minutes – and that many have been traumatized, orphans and moved several times, “an unacceptable and astounding figure”.
“They were exposed to diseases and violence on an unprecedented scale for Gaza,” he continued. “We have been refused authorization to bring incubators and fans to northern children. They desperately need to survive. We are talking about children sharing oxygen masks to stay alive. ”
UNICEF says that a baby in five in Gaza is now born prematurely, often mothers weakened by hunger and stress.
Referring to the peace plan put forward by American president Donald Trump, who was the subject of negotiations in Egypt for a second day, Mr. Pires welcomed “the plans of the American government which give an overview of hope to the region and to civilians and children in Gaza, that a better future is in advance”.
His words echoed those of the UN Secretary General António Guterres Who, in a statement on Monday, said that the recent proposal of the American president “presents an opportunity to this should be seized to put an end to this tragic conflict”.
The opportunity should not be lost, underlined the UN chief. “After two years of trauma, we have to choose hope-now,” he said.
Hospitals on the edge
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), only 14 of the 36 Gaza hospitals are still partially operational-none in the north of Gaza-and only 62 primary health care centers remain partially functional, against a total war of 176.
WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier said that official figures have confirmed 400 deaths related to malnutrition since January 2025, including 101 children, including 80 under five. More than 10,000 children have received acute malnutrition diagnosis in the past two months, and around 2,400 seriously malnutric children are at risk of famine.
Addressing Geneva journalists, the WHO spokesperson warned that the real toll is probably much higher, because many families in overcrowded shelters cannot reach clinics or hospitals. “” The famine which was once confined to Gaza City now spreads south while people flee renewed fights ”, he explained.
A help always blocked and unpredictable
Of the United Nations Coordination Office (Ochha), the spokesman Jens Laerke added that since October 2023, more than 8,000 missions inside Gaza have required Israeli approval and that almost half had been refused, delayed or hampered. “Any help that penetrates is positive,” he said, “but there was not a single day when supplies have reached the required levels”.
Originally published at Almouwatin.com
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