572nd Plenary session 21-22 September 2022 - Related Opinions

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Climate Adjustment Fund financed by Cohesion and NGEU

Aprobados on 21/09/2022
Referencia: 
ECO/583-EESC-2022
Rapporteur: 
Ioannis VARDAKASTANIS (Greece)
Co-rapporteur: 
Judith VORBACH (Workers - GR II/Austria)
Pleno: 
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Sep 21, 2022 Sep 22, 2022

EESC believes that there is a need to have a clear and structured view of which funds are targeted to tackle climate change and how they are managed. With an approved budget of over EUR 330 billion in the current programming period, cohesion policy is the largest and most important investment tool in Europe. As 30% of both the Cohesion Fund and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) will need to be spent on projects for decarbonising our economy, cohesion policy has a crucial role in tackling climate change. Moreover, funds will also be made available under NGEU, as the green transition is one of the main targets of recovery and resilience after COVID-19.

Dictamen del CESE: Climate Adjustment Fund financed by Cohesion and NGEU

Tackling energy poverty and the EU's resilience: challenges from an economic and social perspective

Aprobados on 21/09/2022
Referencia: 
SOC/717-EESC-2022
Rapporteur: 
Ioannis VARDAKASTANIS (Greece)
Pleno: 
572 -
Sep 21, 2022 Sep 22, 2022

The EESC believes that ensuring equal access to energy and the security of energy supply at affordable cost must be an absolute priority for the European Union (EU) and its Member States. It calls for the establishment of a broad and ambitious political coalition to analyse and address energy poverty from a holistic approach with the objective of bringing it to a minimum level by 2030 and eliminating it altogether in the long term. The actions of the coalition should be further developed in an EU Strategy against energy poverty. The EESC urges the EU to promote a common approach to energy poverty that will allow for a tangible and shared understanding of energy poverty and the collection of statistical data, taking into account Member States' differences and particularities.

Dictamen del CESE: Tackling energy poverty and the EU's resilience: challenges from an economic and social perspective

Role of carbon removal technologies in decarbonising the European industry

Aprobados on 21/09/2022
Referencia: 
CCMI/190-EESC-2022
Rapporteur: 
Andrés BARCELÓ DELGADO (Employers - GR I / Spain)
Co-rapporteur: 
Monika SITÁROVÁ (Slovakia)
Pleno: 
572 -
Sep 21, 2022 Sep 22, 2022

The adoption of the European Union Climate law has set an ambitious emission reduction target for 2030 while confirming the climate neutrality objective for 2050. According to the IPCC scenarios, keeping global warming below 1.5°C requires that global anthropogenic net emissions should be zero by around 2050. Secondly, meeting this goal requires the deployment of CDR, which can happen by means of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and removals in the agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector. The IPCC defines CDR as "anthropogenic activities removing CO2 from the atmosphere and durably storing it in geological, terrestrial, or ocean reservoirs, or in products".

Dictamen del CESE: Role of carbon removal technologies in decarbonising the European industry

Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States

Aprobados on 21/09/2022
Referencia: 
SOC/737-EESC-2022
Referral: 
COM(2022) 241 final 2022/0165 NLECOM(2022) 241 final 2022/0165 NLE
Rapporteur: 
Mariya MINCHEVA (Employers - GR I / Bulgaria)
Pleno: 
572 -
Sep 21, 2022 Sep 22, 2022

The EESC considers that the proposed guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States are appropriate as they address the most urgent issues in the labour market. In current turbulent times, steps must be taken to strengthen both the role of the social partners and their involvement in designing and implementing employment, social and economic reforms and policies, including by building their capacity. As labour shortages are on the rise again, effective measures should be implemented in order to encourage the social partners to work on skills needs at national level, with action adapted to individual sectors and local situations. With fast technological change and the twin transition, the "lifespan" of previously acquired skills and competencies is getting ever shorter and lifelong acquisition of relevant skills and competencies is increasingly important for both workers and businesses. Labour mobility within the EU and legal labour migration should be encouraged.

Dictamen del CESE: Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States

Decent work worldwide

Aprobados on 21/09/2022
Referencia: 
SOC/727-EESC-2022
Referral: 
COM(2022) 66 final
Rapporteur: 
Maria del Carmen BARRERA CHAMORRO (Workers - GR II / Spain)
Pleno: 
572 -
Sep 21, 2022 Sep 22, 2022

This opinion presents the EESC's contribution to the European Commission's strategy to promote decent work not only within the EU but throughout the world. Decent work is unfortunately beyond reach for millions of workers across the globe. The Committee welcomes the Commission's initiative to promote decent work in all sectors and fields on the local and national level, within the EU and beyond. The EESC underlines that the EU must use all its policies, both internal and external, to promote and ensure decent work worldwide.

Dictamen del CESE: Decent work worldwide

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