European Alliance for a Green Recovery

The first European Alliance for a Green Recovery has been born, which will work to implement ecologically sustainable solutions in the economic strategy of the European Union, with the fight against climate change being the core of this strategy to get out of the crisis produced by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Wind Business Association (AEE) supports this initiative on behalf of the Spanish wind sector.

NGOs and expert groups that call on the European Commission to use the Green Deal so that, in the face of the crisis generated by COVID-19, green investment packages are mobilized that allow the recovery and economic transformation of EU countries to get out of this economic crisis, committing to the fight against climate change and the protection of biodiversity.

This alliance is thus aligned with the letter that 13 EU Environment and Climate Ministers sent last week to Brussels also demanding that the Green Deal, which was called to be Europe’s roadmap to fight climate change, not be left behind by the coronavirus.

In the face of the coronavirus crisis – the greatest challenge Europe has faced in peacetime, with devastating consequences and a shock to the economy more difficult than the 2008 crisis – ministers from 11 countries have joined this Alliance (including Teresa Ribera, Fourth Vice-President of the Government and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge), 79 MEPs from 17 Member States, 37 CEOs, 28 business associations representing 10 different sectors (including the Wind Business Association), the trade union confederation representing members of 90 national trade union organisations and 10 trade union federations, 7 NGOs and 6 expert groups.

They are all committed to working together to create, support and implement solutions to prepare our economies for the world of tomorrow.

This first pan-European call for the mobilisation of post-crisis green investment packages will work to build the recovery and transformation plans that enshrine the fight against climate change and biodiversity as a key pillar of economic strategy.

Sharing the belief that economic recovery will only come with massive investments to protect and create jobs and to support all businesses, regions and sectors that have suffered the sudden shutdown of the economy, the Alliance is committed to contributing to post-crisis investment decisions necessary to restart our economy.

The signatories commit to work together, share knowledge, exchange experiences and create synergies to launch the green recovery investments that are needed. And they explicitly support the Commission’s Green Deal as having enormous potential to rebuild the European economy.

COVID-19 will not make climate change and nature degradation go away. The fight against this crisis will not be won without a sound economic response. The alliance is committed to participating in the struggle and victory of these two battles simultaneously and, in doing so, being stronger together.

Source: Ecoticias