SDSN European Green Deal Senior Working Group

Recognizing the global sustainability challenges we face, the European Union leaders adopted the European Green Deal with wide-ranging goals for a climate-neutral, resource-efficient, technologically advanced, and socially equitable continent. SDSN Europe convened a Senior Working Group, consisting of top-level academics and stakeholders, to mobilize expertise for the successful implementation of this transformative framework.

The Group was led by the SDSN President Jeffrey Sachs and SDSN Europe Co-Chair Phoebe Koundouri. It contributed to the following objectives:

• Identify and promote technological and policy pathways for decarbonization by 2050 within and across EU Member States;
• Identify and promote adaptation pathways within and across EU Member States;
• Identify socially-inclusive pathways that “leave no one behind”;
• Provide strategic recommendations and mobilize experts for the ongoing implementation of the European Green Deal through the SDSN networks;
• Mobilize experts to rethink policies for clean energy supply and climate adaptation projects, across the economy, industry, production and consumption, large-scale infrastructure, transport, food and agriculture, construction, taxation, and social benefits; and
• Mobilize stakeholders in partnership with the SDSN European networks to guarantee local engagement and support for these policies.