Sustainable Development | European Green Deal
Sustainable development is the organizing principle for meeting human development goals while simultaneously sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services based upon which the economy and society depend. On 11 December 2019, the European Commission presented the European Green Deal - its ambitious flagship project aiming at Europe becoming the first climate neutral continent by 2050: "Becoming the world’s first climate-neutral continen...
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They have a key role to play in meeting the EU’s objective of a climate neutral Europe by 2050
In essence, the Green Deal is a roadmap for making the EU’s economy sustainable. It’s goal is to turn challenges into opportunities across all policy areas and making this transition just and inclusive for all.
The integration of the Western Balkans into the European Green Deal is, therefore, key to accelerating the region’s transition and increasing the chances of success for an EU climate-neutral agenda right across the continent.
The EU has been supporting and will continue, as part of the Green Deal ambition, to support a number of actions to improve the environment, increase energy efficiency measures and to make greater use of clean energy and renewables. Work is currently underway on a green agenda for the Western Balkans which is scheduled to come out early 2020...
