To achieve the targets set out by the Fit-For-55 being one of the world’s richest regions, 34 million of the approximately climate targets and the 2050 target for a climate-neutral Europe, renovating 500 million people living in the EU were considered to be living in energy the building stock is imperative, yet 75% of the EU building stock is energy poverty before the 2021-2022 fossil fuel crisis. [...] capture the big time lag between the time of extraction of fossil fuel and As explained above, the EEB wants to enable energy communities to thrive, the full cost of burning that fossil fuel, due to the long delays inherent in the but their existence has not stopped the fossil fuel industry from continuing its WHY ENERGY JUSTICE? TOWARDS A NEW ECONOMIC AND ENERGY FRAMEWORK IN EUROPE WHY ENERGY JUS. [...] Solutions to the infamous 20-year-long zombie clause that binds the concentration of capital and power, the pattern of exploitation and the those leaving the ECT to its rules already exist and are known as an inter-se inherent injustice of the energy market. [...] The EU should protect the interests of citizens, these citizens being heard in the offices of European policymakers? rather than protecting the interests of the big centralised energy multi- The EEB advocates for a world in which people and the planet can thrive nationals. [...] In the forth- coming twin reports “Sacrifice Zones for Sustainability? Green Extractivism and the Struggle for a Just Transition” and “When Clean Energy Plays Dirty: Decarbonisation and the Struggle for a Just Transition”, the EEB will take a deep dive into case studies stretching from the heart of the European Union to the Global South.
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