A Sustainable Climate Strategy for Europe: Acting Now! – Opinion on Climate “For Sibiu and Beyond”

During the meeting of the General Assembly on 27 June 2019, CEEP members have adopted an opinion “A Sustainable Climate Strategy for Europe: Acting Now! – Statement on Climate “For Sibiu and Beyond”“.

Our key messages are the following:

• Global warming is a major risk and climate policies must be developed as part of a sustainable approach.
• A prerequisite for success is the social acceptability of these policies, which requires greater equity and democracy, particularly at the local level.
• CEEP members manage essential infrastructure and provide SGIs that contribute to well-being and competitiveness; their proximity to economic actors makes them key players in climate policies.
• The EU Strategic Agenda 2019-2024 needs to recognise that role and put “enablers” of sustainable climate policies at its centre.