- Contributes to European Commission priorities
Portfolio overview
The EU has both the need and the opportunity to use its green ambitions to drive competitiveness, resilience and prosperity. But EU green targets must also lead to a just and fair transition, especially in such a fast-evolving and uncertain global environment.
This portfolio will strive to achieve a green transition that works for the economy, for businesses and for people. It will design and apply new science-based data, methods, models and tools to explore policy options and solutions. It will align the green transition with the new EU priorities for competitiveness, resilience and fairness, while considering their impact on nature and society.
Objectives
Support achieving European Green Deal targets by:- identifying enablers and successful cases
- providing step-by-step plans to implement the European Green Deal at national, regional and local level
- offering practical input to increase green investments and protect the environment.
Provide tools for sustainable competitivenessFind green solutions and practical tools for a sustainable industrial transition that balances sustainability throughout the value chains, competing policy goals and competitiveness, considering how the economy relies on the environment and natural resources.
Help to measure a fair and just green transitionCreate tools to measure sustainable and inclusive wellbeing. Identify and address how such measures can help to achieve European Green Deal objectives and understand their effects on society and the economy.
Analyse environmental data effectivelyIncrease data interoperability to monitor and evaluate policy more effectively and build on the knowledge base of the JRC Biomass Mandate.