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European Union member states have agreed to reach climate neutrality by 2050 and increase their level of ambition for 2030. This means Europe needs to amend all its climate policies, including its Emissions Trading Scheme, the EU's climate chief, Frans Timmermans, told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview.
To strengthen Europe's knowledge base at local and regional level and to support the recovery from the Covid-19 crisis, the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) will step up its cooperation with European Commission's services in the field of research and innovation, education and culture. A new Action Plan signed between the two institutions aims to provide regions and cities with the latest data and knowledge and to help them tackle innovation divide and brain drain, address educational inequalities and deliver EU's political priorities, such as the Green Deal.
Regional governments across the EU are bracing for difficult times ahead as they lack technical means and have scarce financial resources, according to a joint survey conducted by the European Committee of the Regions and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. EURACTIV France reports.
Dans un entretien accordé à Contexte, le négociateur du budget 2021 au Parlement européen revient sur les grands enjeux énergie-climat de la rentrée. Le socialiste privilégie notamment la taxe sur les transactions financières plutôt que la « taxe carbone aux frontières » pour doter l’Union européen de nouvelles ressources financières.
At a time of converging economic, health, climate and environmental crises, the European Union has committed to strong public investment to transform its economy. In parallel, the European Investment Bank (EIB) is in the process of setting out its “roadmap” for becoming the EU Climate Bank.
There’s no better way to express our commitment to the future of Europe than to invest in research and innovation, as it will help Europe develop the next generation of clean technologies and speed up its economic recovery. This is something EU leaders should keep in mind when they meet on Friday, writes Pascal Lamy.
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Many EU governments appear to be ignoring regional and local authorities in the design of their national recovery plans, and they risk uneven recovery and slower green transition if existing issues in most vulnerable regions are disregarded, experts say.
The Covid-19 pandemic is likely to lead to the largest economic collapse since the Great Depression. The EU has gone to work on a recovery programme and asked its member states to adopt their own national plans. Given the magnitude of the imminent economic crisis, recovery programmes will be supported by government financial stimuli surpassing those deployed against the financial crisis in 2008. Anna Skowron and Stefan Schurig assess the green credentials of EU and German recovery packages and where opportunities to secure a sustainable energy transition lie.
The European Commission will argue this week in favour of a 55% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and push for higher shares of renewable energy as part of an ambitious plan to achieve net-zero emissions by mid century, EURACTIV has learned.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex unveiled on Thursday (3 September) a detailed national economic recovery plan amounting to €100 billion over two years. The plan is in line with those drawn up by Berlin and the European Commission, according to the head of the influential French think tank IDDRI. EURACTIV France reports.
This week, the European Commission presented its hydrogen strategy. It sets out how to make clean hydrogen a viable solution for a climate-neutral economy and build a dynamic hydrogen value chain in Europe in the next five years, writes Kadri Simson.
European Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen called on Thursday (2 July) a mini-summit for next week with her counterparts at the Council, Parliament and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to work towards a deal on the EU recovery package.
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