Trotinetas. "É uma anarquia total"

Só em 2022 a PSP já registou quase 500 acidentes com trotinetas, que provocaram 395 feridos leves e 13 graves.O médico Marino Machado diz que vê vítimas quase todos os dias nas urgências. A PSP apela aos cidadãos que utilizem estes equipamentos “com respeito pelos demais utentes”.

Entre janeiro e novembro deste ano, foram registados 489 acidentes (395 feridos leves e 13 graves) com trotinetas. Os dados foram avançados ao i pela Polícia de Segurança Pública (PSP), que adiantou igualmente os números dos anos anteriores: 289 em 2021 (244 feridos leves e sete graves), 97 em 2020 (69 feridos leves e dois graves) e 169 em 2019 (119 feridos leves e três graves).

A PSP esclarece que “na sua atividade operacional, tem-se preocupado em acompanhar a tendência de aumento da utilização das trotinetas e as consequentes questões relativas à segurança rodoviária, uma vez que os seus condutores partilham as vias de circulação com os demais veículos motorizados”, destacando que os dados incluem os acidentes que envolvem trotinetas, desde aqueles sem outros intervenientes e aqueles em que os veículos automóveis também são intervenientes. Ler mais

 

Imprensa Escrita - 23-11-2022

 

Asbestos: The return of the silent killer

 

Faced with an energy crisis, Europe is redoubling efforts to renovate its building stock but this risks releasing asbestos, a cancer-causing substance, which is putting the lives of construction workers at risk.

In this special report, EURACTIV looks at the state of play when it comes to tackling asbestos in the construction sector and the way forward to protect workers’ health.

• As homeowners renovate, Europe’s asbestos debt resurfaces

  As high energy prices encourage homeowners to renovate, the construction sector is confronted with an old foe – asbestos. (...)
  

ePrivacy : les eurodéputés cherchent un compromis sur le traitement des données de communication

 
Après des mois de stagnation des débats sur le règlement « vie privée et communications électroniques » (ePrivacy Regulation), les eurodéputés et les diplomates de l’UE ont entamé les discussions sur la question sensible du traitement des données, métadonnées et contenus des communications électroniques.

Des représentants du Parlement européen et du Conseil de l’UE se sont réunis le 10 novembre dans le cadre d’une discussion technique sur le règlement « vie privée et communications électroniques », une initiative législative très controversée au point mort depuis des années.

Les États membres de l’UE ne sont parvenus à une position commune qu’en février 2021, soit quatre ans après la présentation de la proposition. Depuis lors, les équipes de négociation des deux institutions n’ont guère réalisé de progrès, les discussions techniques portant sur les parties les moins controversées des propositions. (...)

Digital citizenship: A new proposal for an inclusive future

 

A stakeholder-led initiative is pushing for a rethink of inclusion in the digital transformation, focusing on the idea of digital citizenship.

In a non-paper, the EU Digital Citizenship Working Group set out five pillars of digital citizenship, recommending policy actions in areas including technology, social engagement, human rights and democratic participation. 

The coalition was formed in late 2020 and finished work on its non-paper, ‘Europeans Fit for the Digital Age’, last year. Its membership spans academia, business and civil society, including organisations such as Facebook’s parent company Meta, the Lisbon Council think tank, the NGO European Youth Forum and the Institute for Media Studies. 

“For many people, words like ‘digital citizenship’ and ‘digital inclusion are just buzzwords,” said Mark Boris Andrijanič, Slovenia’s former digital minister, at an event held in Brussels earlier this month which gathered the working group’s steering committee. However, action is needed to address the fact that increasingly digitalised societies are not equally advantageous for all groups, he urged. (...)

Empowerment and protection: Building digital citizenship in the EU

As digital technologies become an integral part of everyday life, from the home to public services, organisations from across society are looking for ways to promote positive citizenship fit for this new context. 

In a recently-published non-paper, a working group gathering researchers, civil society organisations, think tanks and tech companies, including the Lisbon Council, Meta and the European Youth Forum, came together to devise five pillars on which a new concept of digital citizenship could rest. 

Spanning well-being, media literacy, digital empowerment and opportunities, the pillars offer starting points for digital policymaking to both equip people with the capabilities to protect themselves in the online world and ensure that its benefits are equally distributed across society.  (...)

 

Self-regulation for sustainability: Combatting greenwashing in ads

 
As concerns about the climate crisis grow, demand for products that cause minimal environmental harm is also rising, leading to a proliferation in sustainability claims from the companies selling them.

Trust in the veracity of these claims is low, however, and members of the marketing sector are now calling for greater efforts to address this issue and boost the validity of environmental labels and consumer confidence in them. 

A number of EU-level and national initiatives have in recent years focused on the issue of greenwashing and potential solutions, but those in the advertising industry stress the need for this to be combined with self-regulatory actions that offer guidance and set standards for businesses to ensure that positive climate action can become more widespread.
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