The EU will need to update its long-term climate goals in 2020. Parliament wants more ambitious goals, but will EU countries agree to aim for climate neutrality by 2050?
On the 18th of November, the three EU institutions agreed on the EU's budget for 2020. This will allow the EU to focus its resources on the priorities that matter to citizens: climate change, jobs, young people, security and solidarity in the EU.
On 12 and 14 November, two Coordinators’ Days hosted 12 new ERA Chair project coordinators and 37 new Twinning project coordinators who received all the necessary information for successful management of their projects.
The circular economy, including new waste and recycling laws, will represent “half” of the EU’s effort to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, and will be erected as “the number one priority” of the upcoming European Green Deal, according to officials.
On the 14th of November the Commission and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) presented a report on an initiative launched in 2017 to help 12 EU regions and Member States achieve industrial transition and hold their own in a globalised economy.