MANIFESTO - A RESILIENT AND RESOURCE-WISE EUROPE: SUFFICIENCY AT THE HEART OF THE EU’S

By putting sufficiency at the science: the IPCC underlines the gap regarding heart of its policies, the EU can set itself on the path demand-side options in national plans5 and recom- of a resource-wise and resilient global leadership, mendations from scientists, such as the European providing a more secure, fair, and less costly tran- Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change, are sition to net. [...] The EU sufficiency strategy should identify the sufficiency policy gap and potential overall and across the different sectors, and propose an action plan to deliver this potential through policies and measures in different sectors for 2030, 2040, and 2050. [...] should be accompanied by retraining schemes Sufficiency can contribute to reducing EU and glo- for workers within the EU and abroad as workers bal energy consumption, facilitating the progress should benefit from economic transformation and of renewables in the global energy mix and fossil not bear the cost of it. [...] Manifesto: A Resilient and Resource-wise Europe: Sufficiency at the Heart of the EU’s Future — 5 III – Recommendations: putting sufficiency at the heart of the EU strategic agenda Sufficiency needs to be at the heart of the ︦ a dedicated section for sufficiency measures next EU mandate and integrated into the in the National Energy Climate (and Mate-EU’s strategic agenda. [...] tion and evaluation of sufficiency assumptions; • incentivise and integrate sufficiency measures Sufficiency at the heart of within the implementation of the EU 2030 EU (sectoral) policies framework and the Fit for 55 packages, inclu- ding by highlighting existing initiatives at the local and national levels that could be repli- Sufficiency can promote well-being and improve cated or expanded and.