🟩@EU_EESC hosts the #EUYouthRoundTables! 🧑‍🤝‍🧑Young people sat on the same table with @TimmermansEU discussing #sustainable economy & its role in addressing #environmental & #social challenges & advancing the implementation of the EU #greendeal #ActOnClimate 📷watch the video 👇

📢 Read and Sign Our Manifesto for an Intergenerationally Just Economy! 📢 🚨Our current growth-oriented economic system is at odds with finite planetary boundaries as well as human #wellbeing and is driving the eco-social crisis. (1/6)

Read our Manifesto for an intergenerationally just post-growth economy! Supported by youth organisations, @ClimateEurope, @FYEG, @climatalk_org, @climatevanguard, @rethinkecon, @CliMates_fr, @klimadelegation and academics @timparrique, @g_kallis & @jasonhickel! #BeyondGrowth

Material footprint in the 🇪🇺 is double the sustainable level. In this joint workshop with @Green_Europe @Youth_Forum & @foeeurope, policymakers, campaigners and academics discussed ways to address resource use and overconsumption 👇 meta.eeb.org/2022/10/19/the-…

Fascism always claims to be a new broom, that will sweep away corruption and solve intractable problems. But in every case it is supported by oligarchs, mafias and the billionaire media: in other words, the forces that created the mess it claims to solve. It's a con.

The "economy" is our material relationship with each other and with the rest of the living world. We have to decide whether we want that relationship to be based on extraction and exploitation, or on reciprocity and care.

Tax systems in the EU tend to be green 🌱 and fair 🤝 – or neither ❌ Read about the opportunities for Member States to shift taxation from lower-income earners to the environment and higher-income earners, for a #JustTransition 👇 #GreenTaxation ieep.eu/publications/green-a…

A #GreenRecovery will be so important to successfully rebuild the global economy after #COVID19. Investing in reforestation is one aspect of the systemic change we urgently need to see.