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S2: European Union - Green Deal Part 4/4

Dithering on the Edge of Europe
Nov 23, 2020•36 min
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Episode description

Rich and Carola have accepted the fact that the EU will probably implement their whole Green Deal before the Dithering Team finishes reviewing it. But undaunted by the extensiveness of the deal, they soldier through two policy areas which should be so much more at the heart of any green economy than the Green Deal makes them out to be: Building & Renovation, and Sustainable Mobility.

However, Carola and Rich are not impressed by these two expressions of policy-oriented interventions. If the EU Green Deal is supposed to shift behaviour of member states to chose more green solutions for mobility (and area that represents 70% of green house gases), or initiate that lauded “renovation wave”, as discussed in the EU policies, these policy areas and their targets are so humble that Carola wonders if the EU really means business or if it’s caught in that ever enduring tension between sovereignty and unity. It poses the question of whether ‘politically doable’ is just not enough to save the planet. As Rich says, “We just got to get real!”

The EU Green Deal covers 9 policy areas, and in the last 3 episodes, Carola and Rich covered the areas of 
  • Clean Energy 
  • Farm to Fork
  • Biodiversity
  • Sustainable Agriculture
  • Sustainable Industry
  • Eliminating pollution
  And in this episode they cover
  • Building and Renovation
  • Sustainable mobility
  Upcoming in the next episode is a big one:
  • Climate action
 

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