Sufficiency Manifesto: towards a Resilient and Resource-wise Europe
FEDARENE and more than 70 organisations call on the EU to mainstream energy sufficiency into its legislative framework, for a more sustainable future.
Ahead of the June 2024 European Parliament elections, FEDARENE co-signed, with more than 70 other European-wide organisations, a manifesto for sufficiency in Europe, calling on EU decision-makers to make sufficiency a central element of the EU’s next strategic agenda.
With organisations from civil society, academia, cities and local authorities, businesses, and public service operators, we call for a real EU regulatory framework, enhancing the sufficiency as a key solution for the energy transition.
The coalition of signing organisations asserts that the EU can lead the change to meet climate and energy targets, enhance well-being, competitiveness, and resilience, and foster strategic investments. This entails policies, measures, and daily practices aimed at curbing the demand for these resources while ensuring human well-being for all within the constraints of planetary boundaries. The manifesto lays out sector-specific recommendations spanning transport, energy, buildings, spatial planning, materials, products, food, and water, bolstered by taxation and finance support.
Read the press release here, the reaction of our vice-president for energy sufficiency Marie-Laure Falque-Masset, and discover in the manifesto our recommendations to put sufficiency at the heart of the EU strategic agenda.
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