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On Monday (6 July), the European Parliament's Regional Affairs Committee will vote on a draft of the Just Transition Fund, which is considered highly controversial. The Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI), of all groups, had formed a united front calling for the production of natural gas. EURACTIV Germany reports.

Public authorities across Europe have an important role to play in the development of a sustainable and low-carbon economy, with transformations needed in every sector and area of public life. As such, multiple actors are involved in setting up strategies to direct public policy, across multiple departments and levels of governance – covering areas such as housing,
building codes, land-use, transport, energy, climate change mitigation and environmental policy. These strategies, often developed in silos, need to be harmonised and integrated to ensure that all are pulling in the same direction, and to make optimal use of limited resources. As well as cross-departmental (horizontal) co-operation, vertical co-operation between levels
of government also needs to be enabled. A number of projects and regions have already investigated the integration process and their results and guidelines can provide a number of lessons for others on how to optimally use resources, share data, engage with stakeholders and work across boundaries to develop and achieve regional aims.

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This report combines macro and micro level analyses to provide an updated picture of Slovakia’s energy and CO2 emissions profile with outlook and predictions to 2030. It is based on modelled outcomes from the Institute for Environmental Policy (IEP), which was developed in partnership with the World Bank for the publication of ‘A Low-Carbon Growth Study for Slovakia’1 that will be updated to reflect the latest EU climate and energy policies in 2021. The main quantitative contributions of this work relate to large industrial emitters in Slovakia: (i) an aggre-gated company-level GHG reductions prediction and (ii) company-level decarbonization trends and projections based on publicly available Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) data. The buildings and industrial (sub) sectors pre-sent the highest potential for Slovakia to meet ambitious 2030 climate commitments and take ownership of 2050 carbon neutrality, and therefore are at the core of this narrative.

A new study from the London School of Economics (LSE) highlights that to tackle the challenges of climate change, more investment needs to be mobilised in low-carbon technologies and capital assets.