Think2030 Conference
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The IEEP organizes the 2024 edition of the biannual Think2030 conference. Ensuring a resilience future for the European Green Deal on 27 March. It will take place in Brussels and will be held at a critical stage, both to achieve the European Green Deal and to ensure that its sustainability principles influence the future direction of the EU beyond 2024. In 2018, the IEEP launched Think2030, a non-partisan, evidence-based platform that brings together decision-makers and policy, business and research analysts from across Europe to discuss the key sustainability issues at stake for EU policy. The platform meets every two years for a high-level conference and at the same time organises national dialogues at country level in line with the rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU. The last conference took place in Paris in June 2022, while the first two national dialogue events were co-organised in partnership with the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU in Stockholm in April 2023 (Think2030 Dialogue Sweden) and with the Spanish Presidency in Madrid in November 2023 (Think2030 Dialogue Spain). The aim of the biannual conference is to identify the most impactful science-policy solutions that are essential to achieving a more sustainable Europe. The conference will provide policymakers and decision-makers with relevant and timely policy recommendations. The biannual Think2030 conference, which will take place in Brussels, will be adapted to the Belgian context. From 1 January to 30 June 2024, Belgium will hold the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. As an honest mediator at Council meetings, the Presidency also has a direct influence on setting the priorities to be discussed. The Council is the most powerful actor in raising ambition and accelerating the implementation of the EU Green Deal, while individual member states face major challenges due to their different circumstances. In 2024, the EU will be at a critical stage, both to deliver on the European Green Deal and to ensure that its sustainability principles influence the future direction of the EU beyond 2024. The current political struggle challenges the idea that the European Green Deal should remain the framework for EU action, influencing the political manifestos of the Europarties and the future Commission. The conference sessions will address sustainability issues in the context of the EU’s main policy debates on the impacts of approved and planned environmental policies. It will focus on the emerging priorities and work of the Belgian Presidency, but also of the current trio of presidencies, which started with Spain, followed by Belgium and Hungary. The conference will also explore how science can better inform policy to create an enabling environment for these recommendations to be taken to scale, focusing on innovations and best practices. Key topics for the Think2030 conference This will be followed by four Science for Policy sessions, in line with the priorities of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU, as well as with the key areas for the implementation of the European Green Deal, in particular:
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