Open letter – Yes to an EU legislation on Sustainable Resource Management
Together with 100+ NGOs, academics, think tanks, and trade unions, ECOS calls for an EU legislation on Sustainable Resource Management. This collective endorsement reflects a shared commitment to address the core challenges driving global crises and to champion an EU that thrives within planetary boundaries.
Resource extraction and processing are the catalysts behind the most pressing challenges of our time, including global warming, biodiversity loss, water stress, pollution, and social injustices. We cannot address these challenges unless the EU aligns with planetary boundaries and reduces its outsized impact on the environment and people. While the EU has introduced new measures and targets on climate and biodiversity, there is a crucial gap in current legislation on resource consumption, underscoring the need for a new law with science-based and binding resource reduction targets.
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