{"id":117734,"date":"2025-05-06T10:57:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T08:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/?post_type=library&#038;p=117734"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T09:02:23","slug":"security-competitiveness-and-sovereignty-why-sufficiency-matters-for-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"library","link":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/library\/security-competitiveness-and-sovereignty-why-sufficiency-matters-for-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Security, Competitiveness and Sovereignty: \u00a0Why Sufficiency Matters for the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">10 targets and measures to reduce energy and resource consumption, for a competitive and secure European economy.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">To enhance security, competitiveness and sovereignty, Europe needs a transformation in energy and resource demand that goes beyond and complements efficiency efforts. Indeed, sufficiency is the missing pillar to reducing costs for households and industry and achieving our climate and sustainability goals. It needs to be integrated into key European policy and legislative initiatives, such as the Green Deal and, more recently, the Clean Industrial Deal, which is an important step towards decarbonisation and renewed competitiveness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">From going beyond the current focus of circular economy policies to adopt a systemic vision of resources (including extraction and use) in the Circular Economy Act, to ensuring efficient use of existing building stock by establishing a comprehensive monitoring system of building use across Europe in the EU Affordable Housing Plan, or ensuring sustainable water management through comprehensive water impact assessments in the Water Resilience Strategy, there are many tools that can be activated immediately to make Europe more resilient and competitive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><u><span lang=\"EN-US\">This document proposes 10 actions and targets, embedded in current sectoral policy initiatives and legislation, to reduce energy and resource consumption for a more competitive and secure European economy<\/span><\/u><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<ol start=\"1\" type=\"1\">\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Binding resource use targets to reduce the EU\u2019s material footprint<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Binding EU 2040 energy consumption reduction targets<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Obligation to monitor the use of existing buildings in Europe<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Taxation and allocated investment to address vacant and under-used buildings and encouraging reuse\/repurpose<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Mandatory water impact assessments in all new EU industrial policies<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\">Water reuse promotion across sectors<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">EU target for citizen-owned energy by 2050, including 2030 and 2040 interim targets<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">European scheme to achieve low-carbon modal shift, affordable access to quality public transport and resource-efficient vehicle design<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Make the use of price-quality criteria in public procurement mandatory.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Establish mandatory sectoral Green Public Procurement criteria and targets<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"featured_media":117737,"template":"","library_category":[422,414],"library_tags":[499],"class_list":["post-117734","library","type-library","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","library_category-circular-economy","library_category-resource-efficiency","library_tags-joint-publication"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library\/117734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/library"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"library_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_category?post=117734"},{"taxonomy":"library_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_tags?post=117734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}