Views: 61Perspective tourism and travel has to follow three main directions: be resilient, digital and sustainable; however, not all EU member states ready for such challenges. In June 2022, the Commission prepared an analysis of key figures and trends in European tourism, as well as existing and perspective ICT and digital tools in modern tourism’s […]
Category: Political-economy
including the EU and the member states political economy’s analytical monitoring, as well as researching inherent connections between the political decision-making and their economic implementation
Environmental protection: globally and in Europe
Views: 290Environmental global community celebrates these days the United Nations Environmental Program’s (UNEP) 50th anniversary. Global environmental governance system, regardless of all positive intentions, still lacks necessary strengths and capabilities to deal properly with one of the most complex and urgent problem. Some comparisons between the UNEP and EU on these issues can help to […]
Regional and local authorities in adaptation to climate change
Views: 49This June, new EU states’ regional and local authorities joined European adaptation measures to climate change within the “Mission Implementation Platform”, which will be operational in early 2023. The regional entities will get assistance in developing pathways towards climate resilience while having access to the EU-climate data and methodologies for climate risk assessments; besides […]
European historic climate legislation to be finalized in mid-2022
Views: 36 The world’s most ambitious set of climate laws is being discussed among the EU institutions; e.g. the European Parliament voted recently on about half the Commission’s “Fit for 55” mega-law package, setting the stage for negotiations with EU governments in the Council after the summer break. With eight proposals and hundreds of amendments, […]
Global progress in sustainability: SDSN assessment report
Views: 94Since 2015, the global sustainable reports provide for global community most updated information concerning the ranks in performance of 17 global Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs. The report-2022 is written by a group of independent experts from the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, SDSN; this edition also includes the SDG-ranking index and various dashboards.
Sustainability in the European priorities: cohesion policy and business
Views: 43Contemporary global challenges greatly affect all EU-wide development, in particular the European regional and cohesion policies: both are having solid sustainability’s implications and therefore are presently heavily supported from the European financial sources and funds. Progress in reaching SDGs in the EU and OECD countries is reflected below.
Sustainable development goals in Europe: new progress assessment
Views: 58Implementing sustainability goes hand-in-hand with transformations in the EU’s economic model: the member states have to take necessary measures in boosting resilience and recovery. In this liaison, the national and the EU-wide efforts, coped with the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are becoming both the “compass and measure of success” in perspective socio-economic growth, […]
Diversification of supply: resolving European energy crisis
Views: 73Newly created the EU Energy Platform in the beginning of April 2022, is aimed at coordinating measures in securing energy supplies for the EU states, incl. through voluntary common purchase of pipeline gas, LNG and hydrogen. Thus, new platform’s “task force” has an objective of reducing EU’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels by enabling […]
Education for sustainable growth with the common global roadmap for 2030
Views: 69During last six years UNESCO has been working on implementing sustainability into states’ sustainable policies and higher education (HE). Finally, in May 2022 the global educational community adopted a general roadmap for HE and a plan to “reinvent education for a sustainable future”. Although it is not an action plan agreed by governments, it […]
European 2022-Spring economic forecast: negative expectations
Views: 38The EU economy is going presently through a challenging period due to effects of the 4th Industrial Revolution, climate change measures, post-pandemic recovery and Russia-Ukraine military conflict. Spring-22 regional forecast shows that most negative for economy, businesses and households are such factors as the surge in energy prices, record high inflation and disruption of […]