Presentation by Céline Charveriat, executive director at the Institute for European Environmental Policy, on the key findings of the Green Deal for All policy report. Presented at the webinar hosted by IEEP and the Stockholm Environment Institute on 4 May 2020.

1. Achieving
sustainability
and equity
between the
people, regions,
countries and
generations of
Europe
Celine Charveriat, Institute for European Environmental Policy, May 4th, 2020, Webinar co-hosted with SEI

2. Three axis for
integrating
Environmental &
Climate Justice in the
European Green Deal
Inter-country: Harnessing the Green
Deal for greater cohesion and
solidarity
Intra-Country: Putting sustainable
equity and well-being for all at the
centre of the Green Deal & recovery
Inter-generational: Fostering
intergenerational solidarity

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Intra-country equity: proposals
• Adopt green recovery plans as a pathway for systemic change
• Proceed with Green Deal structural reforms
• Coordinate green recovery plans more effectively including through
a reformed European Semester process
• Distribute pollution dividends to European citizens to support
recovery and employment
• Adopt targeted initiatives to put “those further behind first” in each
of the sectoral plans of the Green Deal
• Promote societal resilience through adequate funding for climate
adaptation and the promotion of a green care economy
• Increase the ambition and funding of the Just Transition Mechanism
• Adopt green quantitative easing and exempt green investments
from the fiscal rules in the Stability and Growth Pact.
Annual pollution dividends (eur,
bn)
additional revenues
from FFS elimination
39
additional carbon tax
revenues
49
doubling of
environmental taxes
(excluding carbon)
293
Total additional
revenues
381
Source: IEEP own calculations based on Eurostat, World Bank and
EC data

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Inter-Country equity: proposals
• Increased investments into priority sectors, such as low-carbon
infrastructure.
• Make a 2030 target for coal phaseout a priority of cohesion policy in
2021-27
• Take a more holistic approach to structural reforms aiming at economic,
social and ecological resilience.
• Use territorial just transition plans to work directly with local and
regional authorities.
• Develop educational programmes that aim at developing human capital
for greater participation in the green economy.
• Use the Industrial Strategy to foster locating new industries in
depressed regions and less well-off countries.
• Put research and innovation (R&I) for sustainability at the service of an
intra-EU economic, social and ecological convergence.
• Introduce more robust enforcement of cross-border pollution
infringements.
Source: EEA presentation of SOER to EESC, February 12th, 2020

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• “Future proof” infrastructure investments within economic
recovery plans.
• Integrate intergenerational justice in the framework of the
new Climate Law
• Create an EU Future Generation’s Ombudsman:
• Support greater youth involvement in voting and existing
democratic processes
• Mainstream sustainability issues within the EU Youth
Strategy 2019-2027
• Address the specific vulnerabilities of the elderly within the
climate adaptation strategy
• Promote intergenerational dialogues as part of the processes
around the Future of Europe conference and the climate
pact.
• Explore European green volunteerism programme for
pensioners.
• Make green pension fund investment decisions part of the
second phase of the Sustainable Finance action plan
Inter-generational equity : proposals

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Thank you for your attention !
https://ieep.eu/publications/green-deal-for-all-sustainability-and-equity-between-people-regions-countries-and-
generations
For more information contact: Thorfinn Stainforth
tstainforth@ieep.eu