The COVID-19 pandemic has implications for the EU’s climate action and the European Green Deal. This policy brief presents three potential issues caused by the pandemic and discusses the opportunity that the pandemic presents to take deep and lasting climate action – and how exactly this could happen.
This document cautions that badly designed economic recovery plans risk exacerbating social inequalities and the environmental crisis and that stimulus packages should aim for a sustainable, equitable, and resilient recovery, in line with the European Green Deal.
The pandemic is raising awareness of the links between our own health and the health of ecosystems. It is demonstrating the need for sustainable supply chains and consumption patterns that do not exceed planetary boundaries. In the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, the European Commission is discussing the linkages between the conservation of biodiversity and a post Covid-19 economic recovery
This report details recommendations for a stimulus package in response to COVID-19 that boosts economic growth and moves the economy towards climate neutrality.
To slow the spread of COVID-19, European governments have adopted stringent containment measures. These have led to a severe recession and policymakers in European Union countries are providing generous support to help companies cope with the immediate consequences. The basic approach has been to provide generous and indiscriminate emergency support to help cash-strapped firms meet their immediate liquidity needs. But as lockdown measures continue and the recession gets deeper, a more comprehensive strategy for the future needs to be designed.