Briefing

Financing Europe’s low carbon, climate resilient future

Briefing Published 05 Jul 2017 Last modified 03 Dec 2021

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Photo: © Bojan Bonifacic, ImaginAIR /EEA

The orderly transition to the low carbon, climate-resilient economy that Europe is aiming for is also an investment challenge that depends on a substantial redirection of finance flows towards more sustainable investments. Meeting this challenge and harvesting the associated opportunities requires an improved knowledge base in terms of clear investment information at EU and national levels. Assessing the state-of-play of climate finance tracking in Europe, a recent European Environment Agency (EEA) study indicates that few European countries have translated their national climate and energy objectives into corresponding investment needs and plans.