Friends of the Earth Europe

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Towards Systemic Change with the European Green Deal is a programme that contributes to the four LIFE objectives with work packages covering the specific thematic areas: Climate justice; energy; biodiversity; food and agriculture; resource justice; trade, investment and corporate accountability and cross cutting and horizontal areas: Horizontal and emerging issues and the European Green Deal implementation and towards a sustainable economy to ensure holistic and more integrated approach. The programme is based on FoEE’s problem analysis that there is great urgency to act to minimise climate change and biodiversity loss at this point in time. The world’s carbon budget is shrinking rapidly and the transition to a low carbon fossil-free future needs to be much faster than any international agreement or policy plan, that is currently in place, foresees. Europe and the world have so far failed to halt biodiversity loss, and there is a lack of understanding as to how profoundly that nature loss and the collapse of ecosystems will impact our lives: Nature is both the basis of our livelihoods and a central component of our well-being. At the same time, we need to address the growing inequalities and engage the wider public and communities to co-create environmental policies and solutions. During the next three years we will work towards systemic change with the European Green Deal, based on our principles for transformation, with a focus on its improvement, buy-in and implementation to support an environmentally and socially fair transition that benefits all European citizens. Based on our long-standing experience of successful campaigning we will raise European citizens’ and decision makers’ awareness and build support regarding the opportunities afforded by the EGD for that transition; and their mobilisation and engagement to advocate that it actually happens and system change is achieved.