This report highlights the achievements made in 2008 that prepare for change related to resource-efficiency and the low-carbon economy. It identifies major policy initiatives underway and the challenges that will require greater challenges in the future. The report mainly underlines the fact that Environment policy has left the sidelines and is now one of the most important policy issues. Environment policy considerations increasingly spill over into transport, energy, agricultural, cohesion, industrial and research and development policies. Energy policy aims, among others, to move the EU towards a low-carbon economy. Issues of sustainable development underpin decisions on the use of structural funds.
The review also speaks about the recent economic crises and how the EU can grasp this opportunity to green the economy, the challenges of climate change, environmental disasters, protecting biodiversity, air pollution and recycling among other things.
Source: MEUSAC Environment Committee