EEB’s Annual Conference is taking place in Brussels, as an occasion to celebrate EEB’s 50th Anniversary. The event is organized in collaboration with the Belgian presidency of the Council of the European Union and Bruxelles Environnement.

2024 is a specific year from several points, concerning the environmental movement in the EU, especially. It will be marked by the elections to the European Parliament taking place during Belgium’s Council Presidency in June. The attention is paid to the future of the European Green Deal, emphasizing the following: stepping up and putting in place what is needed to achieve carbon neutrality, circularity, zero pollution and the protection and restoration of nature; giving more influence to divisive positions and short-sighted plans vs. rallying behind the joint objective of a just transition to a sustainable future.

It is a global matter of new political leaders, from the West to the East, from the North to the South, will be climate and the environment turn in a progressive, or regressive way?

2024 is a historic year for the EEB itself: Europe’s largest environmental federation – celebrating 50 makes it one of the oldest civil society networks active in EU policymaking. Within sessions and experts/activists participated and presented their recent work, it was a good opportunity to look back at 50 years of European environmental policies, summarize past achievements and reflect on lessons learned during half of the century-long trip full of challenges.

Sessions covered:
Climate Adaptation and Resilience
Keeping Europe’s Promise of a Healthy Environment-Towards a Zero Pollution Future
Circular Economy in Action: Making Sufficiency the Norm
Way Forward Towards Climate, Environmental and Social Justice

More information at https://conference.eeb.org/about/