Scaling up such collaboration can take place across three key pillars. The conference at which this workshop took place was sponsored by ATTRACT, EIT Health, EIT Urban Mobility, Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking, and the Innovative Medicines Initiative. Dialogue also supports best practices sharing. EURACTIV MEDIA NETWORK BV. For labour, the transition to a green economy is an ideal way to link powerful job-creation argumentsto the carbon reduction imperative. Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, Frans Timmermans, said: “ The necessary transition towards climate-neutrality is going to improve people's well-being and make Europe more competitive. Even one of Canada’s biggest resource companies is on board with the need for dramatic action on climate.

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Meanwhile, the EU regularly shares its insights into energy efficiency and decentralised energy systems, which have been increasingly prioritised in China’s renewables sector. Helping consumers play their part in achieving a more sustainable economy (‘green’ transition) is a key goal of the EU consumer policy revision (the ‘consumer agenda’).
To unlock the full potential of EU-China energy cooperation, China should be willing to open itself up to a much larger extent to European energy investment, and the EU should learn from China’s leap towards energy transformation. This initiative mainly aims to: ensure that consumers obtain reliable & useful information on products, e.g. There are similarities between the COVID-19 crisis and the climate crisis. As the EU finalises its Sustainable Finance Taxonomy and Green Bond Standard, and as China revises its green bonds based on its recently launched Green Industry Catalogue, 2020 is a crucial opportunity to harmonise the forthcoming updated green bond standards. There is no reasonable person that can deny that in the decades to come we will see a gradual shift from hydrocarbon-based energy to other forms of energy.” What Kenney sees as gradual others see as quickly accelerating. Such ambitions should be prioritised further; infrastructure projects such as railways and electricity networks could boost the connectivity between EU, China, and all countries in between. For my and European Green Cities’ partners in Denmark, I hope that winning the Active House award will support the idea of working with the Active House standard in practice because it has many benefits and it is not costly to work with. “People’s welfare in the longer term is inextricably linked to the health of our environment and climate,” said Ester Asin, the director of the WWF’s European Policy Office. At the same time, readers support in the form of recurring monthly financial contributions provides continuous support for our work enabling us to innovate. Lessons from the last recovery for this recovery, Green recovery can build solidarity, if done right, How a $20 bill could be worth close to $308, How Canada can power up reconciliation with clean energy projects, EU deal could forge shiny future for Canada’s low-carbon metals.

First, expanding engagement in each other’s green finance markets is a key priority for both parties.

“When better days come – and they will – we will be more determined than ever to protect our people and planet,” he said on Twitter. While European carmakers cry for help, environmentalists say public money aimed at helping the automotive industry recover from the COVID-19 crisis must be future-proof and geared towards green technologies.

Copenhagen International School (CIS) is a unique building project, for which it has been a pleasure for me and my former colleagues, Miriam Sanchez and Vickie Aagesen to work on. The cases include for instance the story of the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, the case of green mortgage loans for solar PV-projects, the ideas behind the Partnership for Blended Finance on Water and the background on the financing of the Power-to-X-project known as HyBalance.

Teck has a minority (21.3%) ownership stake in one oil sands operation, the Fort Hills oil sands mine, and no other operating oil sands assets. To realise the global ambitions for a green transition, large sums of finance are needed. It is our hope that the qualities documented in the online Active House radar will help to ensure a continuous focus on the indoor climate.

Governments often do lots of controversial things: leading Canadians in a rapid green transition is not one of them.

For labour, the transition to a green economy is an ideal way to link powerful job-creation arguments to the carbon reduction imperative. We'll send you an email with a link to reset your password . Cooperatives have a long history in Denmark and more recently, crowdfunding green developments has as well taken off. My advice for the future is to really focus on new and unique projects, which support the green transition, and to work with engaged builders, such as what we witnessed with the CIS building.
This only amounts to 25 percent of the necessary investments required to reach a 50-55 percent emissions reduction target for 2030. … That would better reflect what is needed in terms of the transition towards a carbon neutral Europe by 2050, which will require a lot of effort in terms of research, investment and regulation.

This cooperation also included Karin Kappel from Solar City Denmark, who have carried out amazing work in promoting best practice BIPV architecture since 2004, and Gate21, engaged as a collaborator in relation to the ForskVE realisation. The shift to sustainable energy gives societies a chance to tackle systemic gender discrimination. While the EU and China have identified key priorities as part of their ongoing dialogue, it is time to really push and deliver on the energy transition. This platform could function as an avenue to coordinate greening stimulus measures including quantitative easing, greening macroprudential assessment of commercial banks, or reducing risk weighting of green assets. Now more than ever we need unbiased, expert information on how and why the European Union functions. Director General of the Central University of Finance and Economics’ International Institute of Green Finance. It is imperative this be sustainable and business-oriented – subsidies cannot last forever. Instead of ‘Europe First’, it should be a ‘Europe Smart’, said Ponce de Leão. Science|Business journalists track important R&D policy news across the globe - including the EU Horizon programme, COVID-19, AI and climate.

08-04-2020 These updates are republished press releases and communications from members of the Science|Business Network, Privacy   |   T&Cs   |   © 2020 Science|Business. Enter your e-mail address below to receive our weekly newsletter. This means clarifying and harmonising differences, and incentivising organisations to pioneer efforts such as issuing green bonds in the counterpart’s market. The global market is here to stay even though governments around the world are adopting more protectionist policies, said Christian Cahn von Seelen, chief of global regions at car manufacturer Škoda.

While lots of individual initiatives have sprung up, a full transformation requires a joint and integrated effort from all players, he said. EU institutions should “start to prepare the measures necessary to get back to a normal functioning of our societies and economies,” said the final communiqué adopted by the 27 EU leaders after a video conference call. For labour, the transition to a green economy is an ideal way to link powerful job-creation arguments to the carbon reduction imperative. What are Europe’s health policy priorities going forward? Supporting the green transition: A unique building project in Denmark April 11, 2019 Peder Vejsig Pedersen, Senior Advisor at European Green Cities outlines a unique building project, Copenhagen International School (CIS) as an example of supporting the green transition You would need a pretty big tent to hold all those who back a green transition in Canada today. The UN estimates the gap to be EUR 2.2 trillion every year. As they struggle with the increasing impacts of extreme heat and flooding, hundreds of municipalities across Canada have passed “climate emergency” declarations. Gaining access to financing is key for research, development, test and demonstration projects and, fortunately, a number of public support programmes exist to support both start-ups and scale-ups working in the green sector. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. The unique forum convening public and private sector leaders for networking, intelligence and debates on research and innovation. As Europe’s energy markets face up to the green transition they must remain open and preserve competitivity, said panellists at a workshop on the green energy transition at this week’s Science|Business conference. At the same time, “the Commission stands firmly behind its political guidelines,” said Eric Mamer, the chief spokesperson of the EU executive, underlining that Commission President Ursula von der Leyen considers the European Green Deal as “Europe’s growth strategy”. Similarly, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) estimates that global annual investments in renewable energy have to double from around EUR 280 billion per year today to EUR 635 billion per year towards 2030 to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Meanwhile, more than 10 per cent of the world’s population lacks access to electricity and one in three people around the globe lacks access to safe drinking water. China and the EU can build upon existing efforts, including the Central Banks and Supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS).

This remains a key stumbling block for increasing participation in each other’s green bond markets.

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