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European Commission & Joint Research Centre

Referral Communication

• The Clean Transition Dialogues – stocktaking: A strong European industry for a sustainable Europe – European Commission Communication (10 April 2024)
• Factsheet on the Clean Transition Dialogues – European Commission Factsheet (10 April 2024)
• Clean transition dialogues held so far (see factsheet above):
  • 10 October 2023: First Clean Transition Dialogue, on Hydrogen
  • 30 November 202: Energy intensive industries
  • 22 February 2024: Clean tech industry
  • 23 February 2024: Critical raw materials
  • 26 February 2024: Energy infrastructure
  • 14 March 2024: Forest-based bioeconomy
  • 15 March 2024: Cities
  • 22 March 2024: Steel
  • 8 April 2024: Clean Mobility

On the Green Transition

• Europe's 2040 climate target and path to climate neutrality by 2050 – European Commission Communication (6 February 2024)
• Towards an ambitious Industrial Carbon Management for the EU – European Commission Communication (6 February 2024)
• The transparency and integrity of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rating activities [ongoing, more details here] ­– European Commission Proposal for a Regulation (13 June 2023)
• A sustainable finance framework that works on the ground – European Commission Communication (13 June 2023)
• Enhancing the usability of the EU Taxonomy and the overall EU sustainable finance framework – European Commission Working Document (13 June 2024)
• Net Zero Industry Act [ongoing, more details here] – European Commission Proposal for a Regulation (16 March 2023)
• European Critical Raw Materials Act [ongoing, more details here] – European Commission Proposal for a Regulation (16 March 2023)
• Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence [ongoing, more details here] – European Commission Proposal for a Regulation (23 February 2023)
• A Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age – European Commission Communication (1 February 2023)
• Nature Restoration Law [ongoing, more details here] – European Commission Proposal for a Regulation (22 June 2022)
• Eco-design requirements for sustainable products and repealing [ongoing, more details here] – European Commission Proposal for a Regulation (30 March 2022)
• REPowerEU – European Commission Communication (8 March 2022)
• Sustainable Carbon Cycles – European Commission Communication (15 December 2021)
• Delivering the European Green Deal
• A new approach for a sustainable blue economy in the EU – European Commission Communication (17 May 2021)
• A hydrogen strategy for a climate-neutral Europe – European Commission Communication (8 July 2020)
• Zero Pollution Action Plan – European Commission Communication (12 May 2021)
• A new circular economy action plan – European Commission Communication (11 March 2020)
• A New Industrial Strategy for Europe – European Commission Communication (10 March 2020)
• Establishing the Just Transition Fund – European Commission Proposal for a Regulation (14 January 2020)
• Sustainable Europe Investment Plan – European Commission Communication (14 January 2020)
• The European Green Deal – European Commission Communication (11 December 2019)

Joint Research Centre

• Measuring transition to a competitive and sustainable economy – JRC Policy Brief (March 2024)
• Skills for the energy transition in the changing labour market – JRC Policy Report (December 2023)
• Proposal for a sustainability framework for energy technologies – JRC Report (November 2023)
• Clean Energy Technology Observatory: Overall Strategic Analysis of Clean Energy Technology in the European Union – JRC Status Report (October 2023)
• Knowledge Hub for Water – JRC Policy Brief (January 2023)
• GreenComp: The European sustainability competence framework – JRC Policy Report (2022)
• The future of jobs is green – JRC Foresight Study (2021)
• Sustainability competences – JRC Policy Report (2020)

European Parliament and Council of the European Union

• Net-zero industry act – European Parliament Briefing (March 2024)
• The deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure – Regulation (EU) 2023/1804 of the European Parliament and of the Council (13 September 2023)
• Ensuring a fair transition towards climate neutrality – Council of the European Union Recommendation (16 June 2022)
• Learning for the green transition and sustainable development – Council of the European Union Recommendation (16 June 2022)
• The European Services Sector and the Green Transition – European Parliament Briefing (2020)

Additional Articles, Studies and Reports

• Global Trends to 2040: Choosing Europe's Future – European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) Global Trends Report (April 2024)
• Much More than a Market – Enrico Letta's Report on the Future of the Single Market (17 April 2024)
• First presentation of the report on the future of European Competitiveness – Mario Draghi Speech at the High-Level Conference on the European Pillar of Social Rights (16 April 2024)
• Net Zero Roadmap – International Energy Agency report (2023)
• Accelerating the EU’s green transition – OECD Report (20 November 2023)
• Achieving a just transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and societies for all – International Labour Organisation (2023)

European Economic and Social Committee

Opinions on the Green Transition

• CCMI/229 – Low-carbon and renewable fuels; Rapporteur: Anastasis Yiapanis (ongoing)
• CCMI/228 – From waste plants to resource plants; Rapporteur: Anstasis Yiapanis (ongoing)
• NAT/927 – A Blueprint for a European Green and Social Deal, based on a wellbeing economy; Rapporteur: Maria Nikolopoulou (ongoing)
• INT/1065 – How to recalibrate the Green Deal that it fits for purpose; Rapporteur: Alena Mastantuono (ongoing)
• CCMI/225 – Communication on industrial carbon management; Rapporteur: Gonçalo Lobo Xavier (2024)
• NAT/931 – EU climate target for 2040; Rapporteur: Teppo Säkkinen (2024)
• CCMI/210 - Industrial Policy as an instrument to reduce dependencies and boost an EU market for green products in the resource and energy-intensive industries (REEIs); Rapporteur: Matteo Carlo Borsani (2023)
• INT/1027 – Green Deal Industrial Plan; Rapporteur: Sandra Parthie (2023)
• INT/1021 – For a resilient, sustainable and responsible European Union supply chain of critical raw materials; Rapporteur: Cinzia Del Rio (2023)
• ECO/634 – Annual Sustainable Growth Survey 2024; Rapporteur: Elena-Alexandra Calistru (2023)
• INT/973 – Sustainable corporate governance; Rapporteur: Antje Gerstein (2022)
• TEN/770 – A strategic vision on energy transition to enable the EU's strategic autonomy; Rapporteur: Thomas Kattnig, Lutz Rubbe, Tomasz Andrzej Wróblewski (2022)
• SOC/747 – Green collective bargaining; Rapporteur: Maria del Carmen Barrera Chamorro (2022)
• NAT/843 – 'Fit for 55': delivering the EU's 2030 Climate Target on the way to climate neutrality; Rapporteur: Cilian Lohan (2021)
• TEN/718 – Hydrogen strategy; Rapporteur: Pierre Jean Coulon (2020)
• CCMI/167 - The sectoral industrial perspective of reconciling climate and energy policies (own-initiative opinion); Rapporteur: Aurel Laurenţiu Plosceanu (2019)
• COM/773 - Strategy for long-term EU greenhouse gas emissions reduction (Communication); Rapporteur: Pierre Jean Coulon (2018)

On water and the EU Blue Deal

• REX/585 – Water Politics: Empowering Youth, Women, and Indigenous and Local Communities; Rapporteur: Milena Angelova (ongoing)
• CCMI/209 – Umbrella Opinion "A call for an EU Blue Deal"; Rapporteur: Kinga Joó, Florian Marin, Paul Rübig (2023)
• CCMI/208 – Water-intensive industries and water-efficient technologies; Rapporteur: Paul Rübig (2023)
• ECO/611 – The economics of an "EU Blue deal"; Rapporteur: Florian Marin (2023)
• SOC/763  – Access to water: tackling water poverty and its implications for social policy; Rapporteur: Kinga Joó (2023)
• TEN/804 – Sustainable and resilient water infrastructures and distribution networks; Rapporteur: Thomas Kattnig (2023)
• NAT/891 – Sustainable water management and climate emergency: circular and other solutions for the EU agri-food system in a future "Blue Deal"; Rapporteur: John Comer (2023)
• INT/1022 – Water efficient consumption and consumer awareness about their water footprint; Rapporteur: Milena Angelova (2023)
• REX/570 – Water Politics: Between Desertification and Securitization - Time for a Blue Diplomacy; Rapporteur: Ioannis Vardakastanis (2023)