SECTORAL POLICIES / Climate/environment

In margins of informal ministerial meeting, Romina Pourmokhtari sees economic thresholds of European companies as “pushback” for their ecological transition

Stockholm, 18/04/2023 (Agence Europe)

At their informal meeting which began in Stockholm on Tuesday 18 April (see EUROPE B13162A2), the EU environment and climate ministers were all invited to be accompanied by a business leader demonstrating a successful green transition.

Indeed, the Swedish Presidency was keen to make the alliance between competitiveness and sustainable development the main focus of these discussions. 

Divided into small groups during the different sessions, the political and business leaders discussed...