New sustainable development strategy adopted 19-06-2006 On 16 June 2006, the European Council has adopted a revised EU sustainable
development strategy, the Gothenburg Agenda. The revised strategy focuses on
sustainable production and consumption. The text remains ambiguous in its
relation to the Lisbon Agenda, the EU’s competitiveness strategy.
The text calls for the use of synergies between both strategies, calling the
sustainable development strategy an "overarching objective" and the Lisbon
strategy "motor of a more dynamic economy". How these synergies can be achieved
is not clearly specified.
The new sustainable development strategy lists seven challenges and
corresponding targets and actions:
In the new strategy, education, training and more research and development
are seen as rudimentary to achieving the strategy’s goals, i.e. more sustainable
consumption and production.
Source: EurActiv LinksRenewed EU Sustainable Development Strategy back |
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