EDOARDO CHITI – Introduction to the Symposium: Managing the Ecological Transition of the European Union

The European Green Deal is an innovative project aiming at making Europe ‘the world’s first climate-neutral continent’ by 2050. Its macroobjective, ‘the irreversible and gradual reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and enhancement of removals by natural or other sinks in the Union’, clearly falls within the boundaries of climate and environmental action. Its ambitions, however, go much beyond such commitment. Climate neutrality is indeed a target provided with a highly transformative force, one pointing to the establishment of a new European society, which the Commission describes at the same time as fair and prosperous, sustained by a more advanced growth model and founded on a positive and harmonious relation between human beings and the environment.

  EDOARDO CHITI - Introduction to the Symposium: Managing the Ecological Transition of the European Union