packages are analysed. Current situation of green jobs in Europe EN 5 EN Numerous studies quantify and describe the trend in green job growth in Europe. The EU's eco-industry is estimated [...] offers opportunities for increasing green jobs everywhere in the world, countries are competing to attract a high share of new investment and green jobs in these growth sectors. Developing and maintaining [...] Climate for Recovery, The colour of stimulus goes green, HSBC, February 2009; UNEP/NEF, Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2009; OECD: Green Growth : Overcoming the Crisis and Beyond, 2009.
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58 "Green Growth Strategy Synthesis", OECD, 2011 59 OECD Smart Grids and Renewable Energy, Competitition Committee Roundtable 2010 60 OECD Green Growth Synthesis 2011 EN 22 [...] 73 "Green Growth Synthesis", OECD, 2011 74 December Council conclusions on Sustainable Materials Management: Council Document 17495/10 75 "Green Growth Synthesis", OECD, 2011 76 [...] more resource-efficient economy. At the international level: • the OECD's Green Growth Strategy20 states how economic growth can be combined with avoiding unsustainable pressures on the quality and quantity
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to the green economy. The Commission will: 1. Promote a mainstreaming of green employment into National Job Plans - by working with the Employment Committee (EMCO) to build on its green employment [...] national green growth strategies (DG EMPL Mutual Learning Programme) and on the ways and means of working with business to direct jobseekers and those at risk of redundancy towards emerging green occupations [...] are at the heart of Europe 2020. Prospects for employment growth depend to a large extent on the EU’s capacity to generate economic growth through appropriate macroeconomic, industrial and innovation
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scientifically sound definition of what green products and organisa- tions are exists. The Commission finds this to be a reason for the low market share of green products and organisations. – The Commission [...] Commission intends: - “to allow and facilitate, [...], a higher uptake of green products and greener practices by companies“ (p. 2), - to counter the fragmentation of the internal market (Recommendation [...] methods and principles (Recommenda- tion 2013/179/EU). ► Benefits of green products and organisations – According to the Commission, green products are characterised by - a more efficient use of ressources
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Telephone +49 (0)761 38693-105 | www.cep.eu 1 EU Green Paper PARCEL DELIVERY cepPolicyBrief No. 2013-22 of 3 June 2013 CONTENT Title Green Paper COM(2012) 698 of 29 November 2012: An integrated [...] delivery market for the growth of e-commerce in the EU Brief Summary Note: In the absence of any indication to the contrary, references to page and footnote numbers relate to the Green Paper COM(2012) [...] forces of innovation and growth in Europe" (p. 2 et seq.). ► Definitions – "Parcel" refers to all items weighing up to 30 kg (p. 2). – "Delivery", for the purposes of the Green Paper, means the shipment
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to accelerate the transition towards a green economy. 5.6. Action 6: New skills and jobs New skills are required to facilitate the transition to a greener economy and to provide related reinforced [...] in particular in terms of newly-emerging and expanding skills such as those required by green and greener jobs. 27 The SWITCH-Asia Programme is a [...] the Council: ‘Eastern Partnership’ EN 14 EN A European Sector Council on skills for green and greener jobs will be established to facilitate exchanges of information between the Member States on
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common definition of what a 'green product' is, and what makes a 'green organisation' There is no widely accepted, science-based definition of what a green product and a green organisation actually are [...] term, a higher uptake of green products and of greener practices by companies in the EU market by contributing to the removal of potential barriers to the free circulation of green products in the Single [...] centuries of rising living standards5. 2.2. The environmental benefits of green products and green organisations 'Green products' can be defined as those that use resources more efficiently and cause
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2 COM(2005) 670. 3 As for instance reflected in the OECD's Green Growth Strategy and UNEP's Green Economy report, as well as work by the European Environment Agency. 4 http://ec [...] to boost employment and economic growth is already emphasised in the Annual Growth Survey for 201110 and in the European Council Conclusions from March 201111. "Green tax reforms", which consist of increasing [...] in natural capital, to seize the full growth and innovation potential of Green Infrastructure and the 'restoration economy', through a Communication on Green Infrastructure (in 2012), and a "No Net
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allocations to green projects – to dedicated accounts set up for the green bond issuance.28 4 Main existing green bond standards Two private standards are widely accepted in the market for green bonds: The [...] allocated to green projects. 28 EU Green Bond Standard – Interim Report – March 2019, p. 15 and 16. 29 Kathrin Berensmann, Upscaling Green Bond Markets: The Need for Harmonised Green Bond Standards [...] Allocation to Green Projects According to the TEG, the first core component of the EU GBS is the allocation of the proceeds from green bonds to “green projects”.48 In order to qualify as “green”, these
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the framework of the Stability and Growth Pact. (8) Within the Europe 2020 strategy, Member States should implement reforms aimed at ‘smart growth’, i.e. growth driven by knowledge and innovation. [...] States should also, through their reform programmes, aim at ‘sustainable growth’. Sustainable growth means decoupling economic growth from use of resources, building a resource-efficient, sustainable and [...] stimulate creation of green jobs and modernise their industrial base. (10) Member States’ reform programmes should finally also aim at ‘inclusive growth’. Inclusive growth means building a cohesive
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