The European Green Deal

Anupriya, Professional Intern

Worldwide environmental change has affected the climate, brought about by human exercises, fundamentally through the release of greenhouse gases that leads to ozone-depletion, which increases the global temperature. With rising worries around environmental change, the European Union pronounced a climate emergency in November 2019. Hence, the European Commission was asked to adjust every one of its recommendations per a 1.5 °C target to limit the rising global temperature and guarantee that ozone-depleting substance discharges are significantly reduced. 

Along these lines, On 11 December 2019, the EU Commission launched the European Green Deal. The European Green Deal is a bunch of strategy policies by the European Commission that aims to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050 and make it greener, more comprehensive, and sustainable to address future emergencies like the environmental emergency. The arrangement will likewise prompt reviewing of existing laws on environment and present new enactment on the circular economy, building redesign, biodiversity, farming, advancement, innovation, and they also expect not to abandon anybody in the process by making the progress just and comprehensive for all. Ugo Astuto, EU Ambassador warns by saying, “The cost of action in climate change, resource efficiency, biodiversity, clean water, and clean air is much smaller than the cost of inaction.” The EU also aims to provide financial and technical support called the Just Transition Mechanism to help individuals affected by the transition to the green economy. 

The European Green Deal plans to advance the proficient utilization of resources by moving to a clean, circular economy, preserving biodiversity, and cutting down pollution. The European Commission believes, to achieve their objective, all areas of the economy need to make a move in their particular manners. Like by putting resources into climate-friendly technologies, uphold their industry to advance, turning towards a cleaner, less expensive, and better types of private and public vehicle, decarbonizing in all energy areas, guaranteeing structures are more energy productive, and by working with worldwide accomplices to upgrade worldwide ecological principles.

To learn more about the European Green Deal:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/20200618STO81513/green-deal-key-to-a-climate-neutral-and-sustainable-eu