A low-carbon industrial policy as a strategy for emerging from the crisis - Summary report

This report, which was commissioned by the Workers' Group of the EESC, was drawn up by Syndex experts.

The current crisis is part of an even deeper systemic crisis linked to growth based on the untrammelled exploitation of natural resources, a factor which has led to the downfall of numerous societies. By refusing to internalise negative external impacts, economic development has to a very large extent been reliant on credit. By drawing largely on non-renewable resources and fragile ecosystems, we have exhausted them; as a result, the "services" provided by these natural systems have continuously thinned out over the last 20 years.