Euroopa roheline kokkulepe

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11. detsembril 2019 esitles Euroopa Komisjon Euroopa rohelist kokkulepet, korrates ELi võetud kohustust tegeleda kliima- ja keskkonnaprobleemidega, mis on selle põlvkonna jaoks määrava tähtsusega ülesanne. Euroopa rohelise kokkuleppe eesmärk on muuta EL nüüdisaegseks, ressursitõhusaks ja konkurentsivõimeliseks majanduseks, tagades et

  • kasvuhoonegaaside netoheide kaob 2050. aastaks;
  • majanduskasv muutub ressursikasutusest sõltumatuks;
  • ühtegi inimest ega kohta ei jäeta kõrvale.

Euroopa rohelise kokkuleppe täitmiseks viib EL ellu ulatusliku algatuste paketi, mis hõlmab poliitilisi ja seadusandlikke ettepanekuid ning rahastamisvahendite väljatöötamist ja ajakohastamist.

Komitee on kutsunud üles sõlmima rohelist ja sotsiaalset kokkulepet, rõhutades tihedat seost rohelise kokkuleppe ja sotsiaalse õigluse vahel. Selleks et homsed kestlikud ja konkurentsivõimelised ettevõtted saaksid edeneda tervislikus keskkonnas, on oluline kuulda kõigi sidusrühmade häält.

Euroopa rohelises kokkuleppes pandi suurt rõhku investeeringutele ning rohe- ja kestliku ülemineku rahastamisele. Roheline kokkulepe on Euroopa peamine vahend COVID-19 pandeemiast väljumiseks. Euroopa rohelist kokkulepet rahastatakse ühe kolmandikuga taasterahastu „NextGenerationEU“ taastekava 1,8 triljoni euro suurustest investeeringutest ja ELi seitsmeaastasest eelarvest. Rahastamisvõimaluste suurendamise eesmärk on muuta kriis võimaluseks Euroopa tulevik ümber kujundada.

Komiteel on oluline roll Euroopa rohelise kokkuleppe algatuste ja meetmete rakendamise järelevalves. Komitee koostab arvamusi ja korraldab tegevusi (vt selle lehekülje vasakus servas olevat kõrvalmenüüd) eesmärgiga tagada, et ELi institutsioonid võtavad arvesse organiseeritud kodanikuühiskonna seisukohti ning rohelise kokkuleppe algatused on kooskõlas majandusliku, sotsiaalse ja ühiskondliku olukorraga kohapeal.

Kuna Euroopa roheline kokkulepe on olemuselt valdkonnaülene ja kõikehõlmav, käsitlevad seda kõik komitee sektsioonid ja CCMI.

  • Almost five years after it was launched, the Green Deal – Europe’s blueprint for a carbon-free Europe – has seen its implementation become increasingly complex. It is high time for a review of the green transition targets and to ensure they will not be achieved at the expense of Europe’s industrial and social systems, workers’ well-being and the EU’s competitiveness.

  • The EESC:

    • points out that there is still a long way to go to reach the final objectives of decarbonisation and transition to a more sustainable economy, objectives that were set out by the Commission in its original Green Deal formulation. Companies need much more certainty, global agreement, guidance, sophisticated accountability methods and, ultimately, support from legislators;
    • highlights the urgent need for public funds to be strategically allocated to goals that are jointly agreed on by European policy-makers and civil society. This initiative must be closely interlinked with the industrial strategy;
    • emphasises that Member States need EU-level support and civil society input to assist companies through guidance, benchmarking and shared learning capacities to adopt and carry out the structural reforms flowing from the Green Deal: bolstering employment rates, enhancing access to skills and labour, and promoting flexibility and efficiency in labour markets.
  • The EESC:

    1. while fully supporting the Green Deal and its objectives, points out the need to assess it in order to gauge its response to exogenic shocks, the geopolitical situation, and technological, social and economic developments, as well as to measure progress achieved thus far;

       

    2. calls on the European Commission to initiate the mapping of measures adopted under the Green Deal to address overlaps, conflicts and the cumulative administrative burden and to provide a publicly available online dashboard recording each Member State's progress in this domain;

       

    3. points out that the EESC itself should be empowered and endowed with the necessary resources to play the role of independent monitor of Green Deal implementation, since it is in a position to create a fact-based picture of the progress achieved within the different pillars of the Green Deal.
  • Maroš Šefčovič, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, chose the conference Empowering consumers on climate change, hosted by the Civil Society Organisations' Group of the European Economic and Social Committee on 11 October, for his first green dialogue. Mr Šefčovič first spoke about the green dialogues at last week's European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety hearing confirming that he would be responsible for the European Green Deal.

  • Inaugural speech at the conference on 'Empowering consumers on climate change' organised by the Civil Society Organisations' Group on 11 October 2023

    Séamus Boland, President of the Civil Society Organisations' Group

  • On 2 May 2023, the Liberal Professions Category of the EESC held the 7th edition of the Day of the Liberal Professions in Brussels. This annual event brings together key players from Europe's liberal professions, as well as key policymakers from the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Member States. This year's event was entitled Fostering skills and delivering the Green Deal.

  • The transition towards a low-carbon economy is a fundamental priority. But the green transition will fail without social dialogue. This represented a general agreement among the discussions during the meeting, particularly if climate policies were not made also socially sustainable and did not take into account the needs and worries of working people, of citizens. Key points raised during the debates included the fact that real wages were decreasing with the soaring inflation, the complementarity of fighting climate change and protecting social rights, and the fundamental role of involving Trade Unions in the design and implementation of policies within the Green Deal.

  • Academia, local civil society organisations, representatives of regional and national authorities and members of the European Economic and Social Committee met at a conference in Dolni Vítkovice, a former industrial area for coal mining and steel production in Ostrava, on 11 October 2022. The conference on Reinventing the Moravian-Silesian Region in search of a socially just transition was organised by the EESC's Civil Society Organisations' Group as part of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU.

  • In its resolution on the involvement of organised civil society in the implementation and monitoring of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) the European Economic and Social Committee calls for clear rules to effectively involve social partners and civil society organisations in the Member states' strategies to bring the economy back on track.

  • Photo exhibition
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    At the initiative of the EESC’s Civil Society Organisations’ Group, this exhibition showcases projects that have been coordinated by the Danish architecture firm BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group.