esdr 2020: policy recommendations
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ESDR 2020: policy
recommendations
Céline Charveriat, IEEP Executive Director
15.12.2020
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• Long-term pathways
• Financial planning → efficient and low cost pathways
• New policy frameworks
• Subsidiarity analysis
• Mission-oriented research and innovation
• Metrics and monitoring → evidence-based feedback process to policy
SDGs implementation in Europe
requires deep structural transformation
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Post-COVID-19 realities
• Risk of jeopardisation of the European Green Deal and SDGs implementation
➢ Industries push for rolling back some regulations
➢ A focus on “going back to normal” might hamper environmental policy-making
• Targets coherence → recovery and resilience plans must be aligned with environmental standards and SDGs.
• Focus on the One Health approach
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• More specific commitments and targets
• Strengthen and simplify the EU narrative on SDGs
• Maintain the European Green Deal a priority
• More focus on health, well-being and equity targets
• Consideration of the spillover effects on third countries
• Fill the implementation gap of EU environmental policies
SDG implementation within the EU
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• More accountability and democratic ownership
• Coordination on EU strategy and timelines among the DGs
• An SDG expenditure tracking methodology for the EU budget
• Deepening the role of VNR
• Integration of SDG 16 with fit-for-purpose indicators
SDG implementation within the EU
Food and land use: key policy reforms
Land use: SDG2, 6, 14, 15
Policies and strategies to be
reformed or better implemented
⚫ 2050 climate long-term strategy
⚫ Effort sharing regulation 2021-2030
⚫ Birds and Habitats Directives
⚫ Common fisheries policy
⚫ Water Framework Directive
⚫ EU biodiversity strategy
⚫ Invasive species directives
⚫ Marine Strategy Framework
directive
⚫ Bio-economy strategy
New strategies to be adopted post-
2020
⚫ Creation of a soil strategy
⚫ Biomass strategy (for food and
energy – having a holistic approach)
⚫ More binding farm to fork strategy
⚫ Animal product consumption
reduction targets
⚫ Sustainable consumption strategy
Circular economy 2.0: key policy reforms
Policies to be reformed or better
implemented
⚫ Implementing acts of Single Use
Plastics Directive
⚫ Regulation on minimum
requirements for water reuse
⚫ Review of the Proposal for a new
European Maritime and Fisheries
Fund 2021-2027
⚫ Review of MSFD
⚫ Industrial Emission Directive
⚫ Eco-design directive
⚫ Extended producer responsibility and
eco-modulation of fees
New policies or strategies to be
adopted post 2020
⚫ New CEAP: Circular Economy 2.0
with quantitative targets and sectoral
plans, and better enforcement of the
WFD
⚫ Common quality standards for
secondary raw materials
⚫ Harmonisation of trade and circular
economy polices
⚫ Sustainable consumption strategy
Circular economy 2.0: SDG 12, SDG 9
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EU diplomacy and development policy
• EU must lead multilateral SDG diplomacy
• Bilateral SDG diplomacy with key partners
• EU-China Partnership for Sustainable Development
• EU regulatory leadership to address negative spillovers
• Aligning development aid to SDG needs
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SDG governance
Increased ambition → reach all SDGs by 2030
• Relation between EC’s six priorities and SDGs
• Updating existing quantitative policy targets and definition of new ones
• Sequenced policy reforms
• Principle of over-time ratcheting
Better integration → one EC (and EP) work programme
• SDG action plans for each DG by 2021
• SDG mainstreaming 2.0. through the integration of economic, social and environmental dimensions
• Coherence between key policy timelines, action plans and headline indicators
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Increased EU accountability
• EC as a whole
• Aligning targets and indicators frameworks
• Full VNR to be presented by 2021
Increase MS accountability → integrate SDGs into the semester process
• Adding targets and indicators
• Discussion of national strategies
• EC report and country recommendations for the semester to be
agreed by the College of Commissioners
• Civil society shadow reporting
• Coherence of approach to disciplinary and enforcement procedures
• Integration of climate risks, circularity and well-being in the current
growth and stability indicators
SDG Main missing EU quantitative environmental targets
SDG2 Zero hunger - Improvement of nitrogen balance from agricultural land (e.g. 1.5 or 2 % annually)
- Reduction in animal protein consumption (e.g. 2 % annually)
- 25% reduction of use of antibiotics in livestock production by 2030
- 25% reduction of use of synthetic pesticides and a decrease of Harmonised Risk indicator by 2030
- 80% of EU citizens consume 400 grams of fruit and vegetables daily by 2030
- All MS to use the Copernicus Earth observation system for farm management and agricultural policy
management by 2025
SDG6 Clean water - Water use remaining below a certain level of available renewable freshwater resources at sub/basin level (e.g. 20
% annually) and reduction of nitrate and phosphate in rivers (e.g. by 20-30 % by 2030)
SDG7 Clean energy - Target that aims at reducing energy poverty in the EU
SDG12 Resource efficiency - Targets regarding consumption, such as per capita material footprint
- Targets for waste reduction (revised Waste FD only requires EC to consider such targets by 2024)
SDG13 Climate action - Target for adaptation finance
- Quantitative climate finance target for the EU as percentage of GNI (domestic and international, public and
private)
- Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from transport for 2030
- Annual reduction targets in Fossil Fuel subsidies
- Net zero GHG emissions from agriculture and forestry by 2050
SDG14 Life below water - Strong targets for key marine pollution, such as litter
- Targets for the overall quality of marine ecosystems (not adequately captured by Good Environmental Status
under the MSFD)
SDG15 Land - Annual reduction of land take compatible with a net zero land take by 2050 (for the 2000-2020 period the
annual land take milestone not to be exceeded was 800-km2)
- Target for biodiversity finance (% EU budget mainstreaming)
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Wrap-up: main policy recommendations
• Headline targets and indicators must be developed in line with the
SDGs and implemented as part of one coherent set on the six
priorities of the European Commission
• Promote structural reform by introducing a new sustainability
scoreboard within the European Semester and SDG-related targets
within the Recovery and Resilience Plans
• Integrate in the monitoring framework new targets and indicators
regarding cross-border social and environmental spill-over effects
• EU must lead multilateral SDG diplomacy and leverage development
aid and trade agreements to implement the 2030 Agenda