Rethinking the European Green Deal

Mario Pianta and Matteo Lucchese

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2020, vol. 52, issue 4, 633-641

Abstract: The European Green Deal (EGD), launched by the European Commission in December 2019, is a major policy package addressing climate change and aiming at a “just and inclusive†transition. Several shortcomings can be identified in the EGD: it lacks a vision of a just, post-carbon economy for Europe; available resources are inadequate to reach stated objectives; and implementation tools are limited. We argue that making Europe’s production systems carbon neutral would require a broader range of “green†industrial policies that need to jointly address environmental sustainability, structural change, and fairness of economic outcomes in Europe.

Keywords: Europe; climate change; industrial policy; structural change; L5; O2; P48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/0486613420938207

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