Download here the programme in pdf. #BeyondGrowth In light of the 50th anniversary of the limits to growth report and the recent finding by the IPCC that “[e]conomic growth (measured as GDP) and its main components, GDP per capita and population growth, remained the strongest drivers of GHG... Find out more

Having barely recovered from the successive waves of the Covid-19 pandemic, European economies are now facing another serious shock. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the sanctions that have followed have given rise to inflation rates unseen for several decades, driven primarily by higher energy... Find out more

It is becoming increasingly clear that oil and coal have no future and the era of combustion vehicles is slowly coming to an end. This is already a huge challenge but decarbonizing energy intensive industries (steel, chemicals, cement, ceramics and other basic materials) is even more complicated. A... Find out more

This joint ETUI/ETUC hybrid workshop will explore key dimensions of poverty across all ages, with a specific focus on old age. The speakers will discuss how people, both in working and in retirement age, are affected by poverty and will look into ways to ensure them all the right to a minimum income... Find out more

Outputs: conference proceedings The future of the European automobile industry - Narrative.pdf A European perspective of a fast-track transition to electromobility - Pardi et al..pdf Emerging battery value chains - Schade et al..pdf France electrification and employment- Syndex.pdf Is zero-carbon... Find out more

In the wake of the Fit for 55 packages, it is not just ‘energy poverty’ but also ‘transport poverty’ that has been gaining increasing attention. Higher fuel prices have hit low-income people hard, especially as they are often locked into fossil fuel-based mobility patterns. More than a hundred... Find out more

As part of four webinars organized across the world to provide insights from the field of environmental labour studies to discuss questions of just transition, this ETUI event will focus on the context and main challenges of a just transition to a zero-carbon economy in the EU. Taking a broad-based... Find out more

The Covid-19 pandemic revealed in a painful way how very dependent the EU is from external industries and how easily supply chains can get disrupted and impact the manufacturing of critical goods and products. It is in this context, and supported by the ambition of the new Commission to become a... Find out more

In June 2021 an Independent Expert Panel agreed on a definition of “ecocide” as “unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts”. If this definition is adopted... Find out more

The idea behind this conference is to explore the potential, but also the challenges, of outlining an EU social agenda that is mainly based on the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR). While the Pillar establishes crucial programmatic principles for the development of the social dimension of the... Find out more