How to recalibrate the Green Deal that it fits for purpose

Key points

The EESC:

• while supporting fully the Green Deal and its objectives, points out the need to assess it in order to respond to exogenic shocks, the geopolitical situation, technological, social and economic evolution as well as progress achieved thus far;
• calls on the European Commission to set up the mapping of adopted measures within the Green Deal to avoid overlaps, conflicts and a cumulative burden and to publicly display an online dashboard recording the progress of each Member State;
• points out that the Committee itself should be empowered and endowed with the necessary resources to play the role of an independent monitor of the Green Deal implementation, being able to create a fact-based picture of the progress achieved within the different pillars of the Green Deal;
• provides in the opinion a set of corrective measures aiming at removing overlaps, conflicting provisions and excessive unnecessary administrative burdens;
• stresses that a just transition should be at the core of the next EU political agenda, by developing a solid framework capable of fostering a carbon-neutral economy, without further jeopardising the socioeconomic opportunities of vulnerable people and regions;
• asks for a more ambitious and systematic approach to financing the investments under the Green Deal, in order to ensure the robust involvement of private financial sources;
• proposes making use of all the provisional sources in hard to decarbonise sectors, on the basis of thorough long-term cost-benefit analysis, not strictly requiring only net zero sources and technologies;
• asks the Commission to display publicly online the different financing programmes within the Green Deal at one place in a comprehensive and user-friendly manner, allowing the link between national portals and existing European portals and the development of synergies between different funding sources.

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