REGIONAL AND URBAN POLICY - Commission publishes a toolkit on sustainability transitions for cohesion policy

The European Green Deal is the EU’s strategy to make its economy and society fit for a healthy planet. It is a policy agenda that seeks to accelerate the transition to a circular economy and ensure climate-neutrality by 2050 and advocates systemic changes to achieve this. High-level reports, such as the 2020 State and Outlook of the Environment, highlight the importance of sustainability transitions, deep transformations in societal systems needed to reach the long-term environmental and climate goals.

date: 02/12/2020

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The European Commission’s Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy has published a toolkit to help national and regional authorities to help support necessary systemic changes through cohesion policy. It contains good practice principles to promote sustainability transitions in the planning and delivery of Partnership Agreements and Programmes for the 2021-2027 funding period. This will help Member States and regions deliver the increased ambition of the European Green Deal within cohesion policy.

The toolkit is accompanied by a report with additional case studies, inspiring examples and more detailed information. Translations of the toolkit will be made available shortly.

These documents are part of the support provided to Member States and regions to deliver the objectives of the European Green Deal, including a just transition, through cohesion policy. The Commission's proposals for a long-term budget including Next Generation EU offer ample investment opportunities for the transition to a climate-neutral and circular economy, leaving no region behind.