A pesar de constituirse como una de las partes del Convenio de Aarhus en 2005, la Unión Europea sigue sin cumplir plenamente sus disposiciones en lo referente al «acceso a la justicia». En su Dictamen aprobado el 27 de enero, el Comité Económico y Social Europeo (CESE) acoge favorablemente la propuesta de la Comisión de revisar la aplicación del Reglamento de Aarhus en la UE como un paso adelante para mejorar el acceso de los ciudadanos y las ONG a los procedimientos de recurso administrativo y judicial en materia de medio ambiente. Sin embargo, la Comisión no va lo suficientemente lejos. Las organizaciones de la sociedad civil piden a la UE unos mecanismos de ejecución más potentes para cumplir eficazmente el Convenio de Aarhus y el Pacto Verde Europeo.
In response to the Commission Communication Stepping up Europe's 2030 climate ambition, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) reaffirms that the Commission's decision to raise the EU's ambition on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to at least 55% below 1990 levels by 2030 is the right one. However, in its opinion Stepping up Europe's climate ambition, the EESC insists on increasing efforts to achieve the intermediate targets, speeding up the process and placing the European citizens at the centre of climate action. Failing this, the EU will be at risk of missing its climate-neutral goal by 2050.
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) stresses that a greener and fairer economy is needed and that the EU Clean Hydrogen Strategy provides an opportunity to achieve exactly that.
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) is throwing its support behind the Commission's strategy for an integrated energy system but warns that the issue of security of supply using green energy sources remains unsolved.
The UN's special envoy on poverty, Olivier De Schutter, participated in the January plenary session of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), revealing the conclusions of his mission to the EU institutions. Despite growth and stability, poverty still remains an issue, leaving some 92 million people at risk.
En un debate mantenido durante el pleno con la comisaria europea de Asuntos de Interior, Ylva Johansson, el Comité Económico y Social Europeo (CESE) valoró positivamente el nuevo Pacto sobre Migración y Asilo, aunque también criticó su falta de ambición y audacia. Excesivamente enfocado hacia las fronteras y los retornos, el Pacto propone muy pocas soluciones viables para adoptar un planteamiento solidario de la gestión migratoria.
In its opinion on the Euro area's economic policy for 2021, the European Economic and Social Committee welcomes the Commission's recommendations, but calls for a shift in fiscal rules towards a more prosperity-oriented form of economic governance, including a golden rule for public investment.
On 13 January the Consultative Commission on Industrial Change (CCMI) of the European Economic and Social committee (EESC) held its inaugural meeting to welcome new members and adopt the 2021work programme.
The CCMI president, Pietro Francesco De Lotto, vice-president Monika Sitarova and the EESC's members and external delegates, whose term of office runs from November 2020 to November 2025, adopted the CCMI's Political Guidelines and Work Programme for 2021 unanimously.
