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21
January
2025
Towards a Fundamental Rights-Compliant European Green Deal
Climate change affects the daily lives of everyone in the EU and has significant environmental, economic, social and health impacts. To tackle this, the European Green Deal was adopted in 2019. This report examines the Green Deal from a fundamental rights perspective, with the aim of protecting the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment for all. It highlights the lack of fundamental rights in EU climate policy and the need to incorporate these rights into future legislation. It also considers how applying a human-rights-based approach to climate policy could support a fair and inclusive transition.
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- Introduction
- 1. A human-rights-based approach to the Green Deal
- 2. The human right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
- 3. The Green Deal through a fundamental rights lens
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4. Challenges from existing EU legislation and policies
- 4.1. Reinforcing existing inequalities through the green transition
- 4.2. Climate change, health and impact on vulnerable groups
- 4.3. Energy poverty and fundamental rights
- 4.4. Employment and green jobs in the just transition
- 4.5. Equal access to essential services
- 4.6. Monitoring the just transition
- Ways forward
- Abbreviations
- About this publication
- CSDDD - corporate sustainability due diligence directive
- CRPD - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- EAP - environment action programme
- ECHR - European Convention on Human Rights
- ECtHR - European Court of Human Rights
- EEA - European Environmental Agency
- EPSR - European Pillar of Social Rights
- ESC - European Social Charter
- EU - European Union
- Eurofound - European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
- HRBA - human-rights-based approach
- JTF - Just Transition Fund
- NGO - non-governmental organisation
- RRF - Recovery and Resilience Facility
- SCF - Social Climate Fund
- SDG - sustainable development goals
- TEU - Treaty on European Union
- TFEU - Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
- UN - United Nations