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Europe's sustainability agenda needs knowledge for action and more concrete targets to achieve its ambitions

News Published 14 Oct 2021 Last modified 14 Oct 2021

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The European Green Deal has set unprecedented sustainability ambitions for the European Union (EU) and calls for transformational change across society. To realise such far-reaching changes, Europe needs knowledge for action. This means better uptake and use of existing knowledge, new types of knowledge, new ways of creating knowledge, and, in some policy areas, better data and more concrete targets, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) report, published today.