European Green Deal as social vaccine to overcome COVID-19 health &amp; economic crisis

Becchetti, Leonardo; Piscitelli, Prisco; Distante, Alessandro; Miani, Alessandro; Uricchio, Antonio Felice

doi:10.1016/j.lanepe.2021.100032

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“…According to the current proposal, 25% of the EU budget would be dedicated to climate action plans ( Erbach, 2020 ; Elkerbout et al., 2020 ). As indicated by Becchetti et al. (2021) , the EU Green Deal must learn some lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, which underlined the strong relationship between the environment, health, and economy.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There is a need for a new paradigm aimed at limiting the disclosure of economic value creation to environmental, pandemic, and social risks. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a vicious circle of the following: unsustainable development, environmental degradation, new pandemic threats, lockdown, economic downturn, and job losses ( Becchetti et al., 2021 ).…”

Section: Concluding Remarks and Future Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Bioeconomy during the COVID-19 and perspectives for the post-pandemic world: Example from EU

Woźniak¹,

Tyczewska²

2021

EFB Bioeconomy Journal

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on human lives around the world. A report from the World Health Organization (WHO) dated 10 May 2021 indicates that the pandemic has resulted in almost 3.2 million deaths globally, with over 157 million confirmed cases. The pandemic crisis may be the driving force for the global integration related to bioeconomy, especially to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, development of national and regional bioeconomy strategies, enhancement of the importance of circular economy, assurance of food security as well as sustainable food production, and protection of biodiversity. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has interfered with the achievement of economic, environmental, and social targets in many EU and global initiatives. This article presents the challenges and threats during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as opportunities that can be brought by for bioeconomy development.

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Section: Concluding Remarks and Future Perspectivesmentioning

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Section: Concluding Remarks and Future Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bioeconomy during the COVID-19 and perspectives for the post-pandemic world: Example from EU

Woźniak¹,

Tyczewska²

2021

EFB Bioeconomy Journal

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“…The EGD, published by the European Commission (EC) in December 2019, is divided into several policy areas relating to: protecting biodiversity, ensuring more sustainable agricultural and food systems, clean energy, sustainable industry, cleaner construction sector, sustainable mobility, eliminating pollution, making Europe a climate-neutral continent by 2050 (EC, 2020a). Furthermore, Becchetti et al (2021) recognized the EGD as a 'social vaccine' to overcome COVID-19 health and economic crisis since the commitment towards zero emissions is to involve all sectors, whereas no individual and no place will be left behind.…”

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confidence: 99%

Meeting the European green deal objective of expanding organic farming

Bieniek

2022

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Research background: Economic growth is unsustainable. However, a circular economy has the potential to lead to sustainable development, while decoupling economic growth from the negative consequences of resource depletion and environmental degradation. The EU's strategy of climate neutralization in 2050 developed, inter alia, into a European Green Deal action plan aiming at the efficient use of resources by moving to a cleaner, circular economy. More sustainable EU food system is a cornerstone of the European Green Deal. The European Commission's goal is 25% of agricultural land to be used for organic production in 2030. The question is if it is possible to reach the objective with the use of current incentives. What else may be done to encourage European farmers to convert to organic farming? Purpose of the article: The aim of this research is to review the development of organic agriculture in Europe and the EU and to identify incentives for farmers to convert to organic farming. Methods: First of all, the methodological approach is to iteratively review the existing literature to frame the problem. Secondly, the data on organic agriculture in Europe is to be analyzed to answer the research questions. The analysis is based on international statistics, mainly collected by FiBL, IFOAM, EC Agri-food data portal and Eurostat..Fitting the trend functions to the actual data has been made in three scenarios (pessimistic, realistic and optimistic). These trend functions were used for the long-term forecasts of the share of organic farmland in the EU. Findings & value added: The long-run forecast might be treated as a goal, which can motivate to act more intensively to achieve the objective. The existing measures, including organic farming payments, are not sufficient to meet the goal of massive increase in the acreage under organic production. It is necessary to develop new incentives e.g. Green Public Procurement, innovative and effective media campaigns, development of a dynamic network of actors within the organic food supply chain with the use of blockchain technology.

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“…Some parts of the Green Deal such as the Farm‐to‐Fork and Biodiversity Strategies make explicit reference to One Health. However, the Green Deal may need to draw lessons from the COVID‐19 pandemic, that highlighted the strict connections linking environment, health and economy (Becchetti et al., 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%