The European Court of Auditors published today a Landscape Review: EU action on energy and climate change identifying seven main challenges, where EU should act to tackle climate change. These being: Energy and climate change governance; Evidence-based policy; The energy transition; Using research and innovation effectively; Planning for and tackling adaptation; Financing; and Involving EU citizens.
C. Alméras, ECTRI Secretary-General was invited to the ECA stakeholders’ meeting to discuss the Review outcomes. ECTRI welcomes the initiative by the ECA and considered that the messages derived from the Review are well chosen. The Review well states that the trend is serious and that transport has a large share of the problem; the summary of what the EU is doing in transport shows a number of failures in legislation. Against this background, the limited number of audits in the transport sector is somehow surprising and could therefore be called upon; Otherwise, on the main challenges part, ECTRI supports that a strong focus is given to evidence based policy, R&I and adaptation, but also believe that transport, considering the alarming situation, could have been given a bigger focus.
