Climate change and the environment

6.1) Create an interactive fact-checked information platform, with regularly updated and diverse scientific environmental information (Panel 3 - recommendation 33).

6.2) Support information campaigns on eco awareness, including a long-term EU campaign for sustainable consumption and lifestyle. (DE, NL and FR recommendations, Panel 3 - recommendation 7).

6.3) Promote and facilitate dialogue and consultations between all levels of decision making, especially with youth and at the local level (DE, NL and FR recommendations, Panel 3 - recommendations 27, 35, Plenary discussion).

6.4) The development by the EU, with assistance of Member States, of a common European charter targeting environmental issues and fostering environmental awareness among all citizens (Panel 3 - recommendation 7).

There are currently no implementing initiatives that address this particular CoFE measure.

6.5) Provide educational courses and teaching materials for all, in order to increase climate and sustainability literacy and to enable lifelong learning on environmental topics (Panel 1 - recommendations 15, 35, Panel 3 - recommendation 24, WG debate).

6.6) Include food production and biodiversity protection as part of education, including the advantage of unprocessed over processed food, and promoting school gardens, subsidizing urban gardening projects and vertical farming. Consider making biodiversity a mandatory subject in schools and raise awareness for biodiversity through the use of media campaigns and incentivised 'competitions' across the EU (local community scale competitions) (Panel 3 - recommendation 5, Panel 1 - recommendation 18).

* This measure has been identified as needing Treaty change for full implementation.

6.7) Strengthen the role and action of the EU in the area of environment and education, by extending the EU's competence in the area of education in the area of climate change and environment and extending the use of qualified majority decision-making on topics identified as being of 'European interest', such as environment (NL, FR recommendations).

There are currently no implementing initiatives that address this particular CoFE measure.

6.8) Promote a plant-based diet on the grounds of climate protection and the preservation of the environment (MDP).


There are currently no implementing initiatives that address this particular CoFE measure.