The recently adopted European Economic and Social Committee’s Opinion on Advancing a European Policy Framework for a Just Transition focuses on the benefits and opportunities of the green transition and provides valuable guidance on the objectives, structure and content of an EU just transition policy framework. [...] To achieve this, develop an ambitious EU strategy for the sustainable management of resources and the reduction of demand for energy and other material resources, including final goods and services, and adopt an EU Green and Social Deal that anticipates, plans and implements the green transition in a transparent and participatory way, maximising its economic and social benefits while ensuring that. [...] Strengthen the European social model to protect the rights and well-being of workers (including non-standard workers such as those in the gig and the care economy), people in vulnerable situations (including racialised minorities, women and persons with disabilities) and other marginalised communities increasingly affected by climate change, and to support them in the process of economic transform. [...] Moreover, ensure that EU fiscal rules allow Member States to allocate sufficient resources to promote a just transition and meet EU objectives, align state aid and public procurement rules with just transition objectives and the characteristics of all undertakings, and advance an EU taxation agenda to raise the resources needed for the ecological transition, incentivise green and social economic a. [...] We call on the EU to support a global just transition that respects policy coherence for development, a human rights-based approach to international partnerships, and a trade policy with high environmental and social standards, in order to avoid the negative spill-over effects of Europe’s economic transformation in other parts of the world, and to support partner countries in planning and implemen.
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