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📚 Winter reading list The Global Plastics Treaty is an international agreement currently under negotiation to reduce plastic waste – a topic particularly important if we do not want our oceans to become huge garbage patches. After two years of negotiations, there is still no agreement – hopefully, the negotiations will be taken up again in 2025 to achieve this important milestone for biodiversity protection.   We followed the negotiations and wrote about what needs to be done:   🔹 Finalising the Global Plastics Treaty Key Issues and Steps Towards Effective Implementation https://lnkd.in/eeNVxcpa   🔹 Plastics Treaty negotiations: Time for European leadership https://lnkd.in/edtq5-UU   🖊️ Romain Collet, Jacob Kean-Hammerson, Geneviève Pons-Deladrière

📚 Winter reading list   Today’s focus is on Corporate Social Responsibility (#CSR), so the question of how businesses can contribute to the green transition. Two legislations have been key in this field in 2024: The CSDDD and CSRD. If you want to learn more about these abbreviations, here are two publications for you: 🎥 A video featuring Raphaël Glucksmann, Member of the European Parliament, answering 4 key questions on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) https://lnkd.in/eFV2YnHs 📝 A blog post by our associate researcher, Jean-François PONS, on the European regulation for sustainable transparency (CSRD) https://lnkd.in/eXNa2HbJ

📚 Winter reading list   🌍 Agricultural trade is an important lever to advance environmental action – but one that has been controversially discussed. As trade agreements have been heavily criticised by farmers in the streets in 2024, we had a look at how agricultural trade can work in the future.   🔹 Towards a more inclusive, sustainable, and cooperative EU agricultural trade https://lnkd.in/da3iu4KN 🖊️ Pascal Lamy, Geneviève Pons-Deladrière, Cláudia Azevedo, Sophia Hub   🔹 EU Trade Agreements as Drivers of Food System Sustainability? Zooming in on Sustainable Food Systems Chapters https://lnkd.in/dgVRrEi9 🖊️ Helena van Thiel

📚 Winter reading list   🌍 With the Green Deal and its commitment to the Paris agreement, the EU had the ambition to be a global leader in the fight against climate change. In this selection of publications, we explore how the EU can further enhance its green diplomacy on the international stage – despite the geopolitical challenges ahead.   🔹 Green horizons: Strengthening the EU’s green diplomatic agenda https://lnkd.in/g2Zr38Rj   🔹 Turning the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism into a green development tool https://lnkd.in/g_Y_-cVh   🔹 The US elected Trump. What does it mean for Europe’s green transition and industrial policy? https://lnkd.in/enVe3dAT 🖊️ Pascal Lamy, Geneviève Pons-Deladrière, Sophie Pornschlegel, Cláudia Azevedo , Colette van der Ven, Elena Schneider

📚 Winter reading list 🌊 Europe Jacques Delors has been working relentlessly on ocean protection and governance in 2024. In November, we launched the Ocean Centre, regrouping all the projects in the field: https://lnkd.in/eJCJD3-8   And here is a selection of our publications on the topic:   🔹 Lessons from the first zero waste island https://lnkd.in/esi4J5B4   🔹 Blue economy: New approaches to restoring marine biodiversity https://lnkd.in/epj8M3Mn   🔹 Next steps for the High Seas Treaty https://lnkd.in/ei3VJXbU   🔹 Blue Finance: A necessary scaling up for a major challenge https://lnkd.in/eAH6vZrs   🔹 Fighting oil spills: Until the end of the fossil fuel era https://lnkd.in/eWF75XWg   🖊️ Geneviève Pons-Deladrière, Lola Gernigon, Romain Collet, Paola Ladisa, Martin Binachon, Giorgio Gallizioli, Renaud Lassus, Jean-François PONS, Nathalie Rey 

📚 Winter reading list   In 2024, we continued with our podcast Re-Thinking Europe, inviting experts and decision-makers to discuss the EU’s green policies - and make to those more understandable. You can listen to the 4 episodes of 2024 here:   🔹 The EU's race for Critical Raw Materials: beyond extraction, into consequences 🎤 With Cécile Billaux, Head of the Private Sector, Trade and Investment Unit at DG INTPA, at the European Commission, and Diego Marin, policy officer for raw materials and resource justice at the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) https://lnkd.in/eAw-4SsC 🔹  Next stop - Deforestation-free supply chains? 🎤 With Marianne Kettunen, senior policy expert and advisor working with the GCRF Trade, Development and the Environment Hub (TRADE Hub) , and Louise Nakagawa, a researcher on Agricultural Supply Chains at Imaflora , and at the Brazilian Centre of Analysis and Planning https://lnkd.in/eB5Wgh8X 🔹 The Green Deal: A European Agenda with Global Impact? 🎤With our researcher associate Monica Frassoni and Koen DOENS Doens, the European Commission’s Director-General for International Partnerships https://lnkd.in/ei_b4TXN 🔹 What should a Clean Industrial Deal look like from a business perspective?   🎤 With Marco Mensink, Director General of the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic), and our experts Cláudia Azevedo and Sophie Pornschlegel https://lnkd.in/epyzZQKK

📚 Winter reading list   Europe Jacques Delors had the opportunity to be a content partner at this year’s European Forum Alpbach. As such, we followed the discussions of the “democracy track” at the conference and published 3 blogposts based on these discussions: 🔹  Democracy in the climate crisis: Can our political systems meet the challenge? https://lnkd.in/eu95v93h 🖊️Sophia Caiati 🔹 Reinvigorating democracy: Strategies for a stronger EU  https://lnkd.in/eG6HSqSQ 🖊️ Sophie Pornschlegel 🔹 Restoring trust in democracy amidst an uncertain future  https://lnkd.in/eWyCvTyd 🖊️Helena van Thiel

Jacques Delors passed away a year ago. All the teams at the institutes in Paris, Berlin and Brussels pay tribute to him with affection and gratitude.   His memory and ideals will continue to inspire our commitment to European unity. Institut Jacques Delors - Jacques Delors Centre

📚 Winter reading list   Agri-food policy was another controversially discussed topic this year, especially with the question of enlargement to Ukraine, farmer’s protests, as well as the Strategic Dialogue which took place from March-September 2024.   📖 Here are some of our publications on agrifood: 🔹 Keynote by Pascal Lamy on enlargement and the implications for EU agrifood (in French)  https://lnkd.in/eRWvTNjv 🔹 Circular Bioeconomy: A climate-friendly solution for the EU agri-food sector? https://lnkd.in/eQ-YKVcY 🔹 From conflict to consensus? The state of EU agri-food policy after the Strategic Dialogue’s conclusions https://lnkd.in/eEt7CgPC

📚 Winter reading list   The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) - a key measure of the EU’s green trade agenda - was a widely and controversially discussed topic this year. To provide evidence-based analysis, we published 2 blogposts exploring the EUDR delay and how this legislation can support smallholder farmers. 🌳 Between a rock and a hard place: the EU’s conundrum on the Deforestation Regulation by Cláudia Azevedo  https://lnkd.in/eDcUcRvv 🚜 Making the EU regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR) a tool that works for smallholder farmers by Andrea Pratelli https://lnkd.in/eAmDhAVY 🎧 Stay tuned for an upcoming podcast episode diving deeper into the topic!