Briefing

‘Future-proofing’ the transition to sustainability: focus on policy assumptions and foresight

Briefing Published 04 Jul 2024 Last modified 04 Sep 2024

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Photo: © Angelina Volkova, Sustainably Yours /EEA

To become sustainable, Europe must change some of the ways people live, work, produce and consume. Using policy to achieve such complex and large-scale transformations is not easy. This briefing explores how to future-proof sustainability policies and avoid blind spots through a foresight-based framework, which includes several participatory exercises involving a multidisciplinary group of experts. Assessing future risks and their potential impacts can identify mitigation measures and safeguard strategies to encourage the transition to sustainability and feed future policy.

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The country assessments are the sole responsibility of the EEA member and cooperating countries supported by the EEA through guidance, translation and editing.

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