Green Transition for Europe - Economy and Environmental taxation (EN)
Channel: Green European Foundation
Date: 03/12/2020

COVID-19 has exposed the shortcomings of our public systems weakened for decades by those same policies that led to the 2008 economic crisis. 

From the impacts of climate change and the environmental crisis, there are important lessons for the future to draw: the first is that the global economic system is leaking through many holes that are costly to fix. The second is that living, as we have done up to now, against nature is incompatible with survival. Thirdly, the green transition is unavoidable and urgent, difficult and not without its sacrifices, but possible. Let’s make it happen together!

In this series of 4 roundtables, we invited you to reflect, together with high-level speakers, researchers, NGO leaders and politicians on how to seek realistic alternatives. If the green transition is necessary, as all the environmental and social indicators show, how can we implement it?

We will tried to answer some of these questions in our sessions started early October covering topics such as biodiversity and global change, decarbonisation, energy transition, agri-food systems, economy and taxation.


Economy and taxation

Ernest Urtasun, MEP. Vice-president of the Greens/EFA in the European Parliament 
Natalia Fabra, professor in the Department of Economics at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Moderator: Fernando Rodrigo, Fundación Transición Verde

This webinar originally took place on October 29th, 2020. It was organised by the Green European Foundation, with the support of Transicion Verde and the financial support of the European Parliament to the Green European Foundation. The European Parliament is not responsible for the content of this video. The webinar was held at La Case Encendida virtually.