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                        Voting for the Public Award of the REFRESH Food Waste Solution Contest is open 1-28 February 2017. Voting is open to all members of the public. The REFRESH Food Waste Solution Contest was launched in 2016 and received over fifty project submissions from across Europe. The aim of the contest is to recognize groundbreaking projects and ideas addressing food waste. Public Award: REFRESH Food Waste Solution Contest Vote Now:  Public Award REFRESH Food Waste Solution Contest (link is external) (link is external)  of the REFRESH Food Waste Solution Contest and have the opportunity to present their project at the  REFRESH Food Waste 2017 Conference (link is external) (link is external)   on 18 May 2017 in Berlin. (link is external)  (Resource Efficient Food and dRink for the Entire Supply cHain) and organizes the contest and the conference. Each person can vote once pe...

Germany (24th) decided to phase out nuclear energy production by 2022, and aims to reduce emissions by 80% by 2050. While the country has built impressive capabilities across the renewables value chain, the energy transition so far has come at a cost: the EAPI highlights sharp increases in electricity prices for industry, and German households, according to data in the index, pay the second-highest prices for electricity in Europe. As a result, the country dropped eight places in the ranking against the 2009 benchmark.