Green Economy - Leave no one behind and regenerative economy
Green economy and future related challenges are well known and widely recognized in education, research and all over society. Climate change is causing challenges and security risks related to food, water, health, energy and bio economics, among others. The green economy challenge will help to coordinate our response to the defining threat of the current time.
These themes and their subtopics are defined as follows
- Leave no one behind: Leave no one behind approach is included in European Green Deal dimensions of strategy and policy priorities to achieve modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy in EU. The core aim is to enable green transition that leaves no one behind.
- Human Security: Climate change is causing challenges and security risks related to food, water, health, energy and bio economics. According to United Nation’s definition, ‘Prevention is the core objective of human security. It addresses the root causes of vulnerabilities, focuses attention on emerging risks and emphasizes early action. It strengthens local capacities to build resilience and promotes solutions that enhance social cohesion and advance respect for human rights and dignity.
- Universal Health Coverage (UHC): UHC belongs to the Sustainable Development Goal number 3 as a sub-target 3.8., and it aims to ‘Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all’.
- Social, economic and political inclusion: This theme belongs to the Sustainable Development Goal number 10 as a sub-target 10.2., and it aims to ‘Empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status by the year 2030’.
- Regenerative economy: The term referes to an economy that operates in service to life, strengthening the vitality of the natural and social systems that the economy is also ultimately dependent on. This is achieved by applying the same principles to economic activity that promote the systemic health of all living systems. Ultimately, it is a matter of change in paradigms and culture, which requires ethical thinking, creativity and reimagining the future.
- Circular economy: The EU’s transition to a circular economy will reduce pressure on natural resources and will create sustainable growth and jobs. It is also a prerequisite to achieve the EU’s 2050 climate neutrality target and to halt biodiversity loss.
- New European Bauhaus: The New European Bauhaus (NEB) is an EU policy and funding initiative launched by the European Commission that fosters sustainable solutions for transforming the built environment and lifestyles under the green transition. NEB is a creative and interdisciplinary initiative that connects the European Green Deal to our living spaces and experience.
- Climate security: The impacts of a changing climate pose a serious threat to global security and rethinking traditional security concepts, understanding the interconnected demands of climate security, sustainable human development and regenerative economic systems are all needed to address arguably the most serious threat to global security we face.
