The document outlines the European Union's sustainable development policies, focusing on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the integration of climate action within its foreign policy. It emphasizes the EU's commitment to energy security, clean energy investment, and partnerships with the Gulf Cooperation Council on climate-related projects. The document also highlights the EU's significant role in funding climate actions in developing countries and promoting joint research initiatives in clean technology.

2. EU sustainable development
policies & cooperation
Lucie Berger
Delegation of the European Union to GCC
7 May 2018

3. EU sustainable development policy
• 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development (SDGs)
• Following on Millenium
Development Goals
• Greater focus on means of
implementation, governance and
institutional framework
• Applies to all countries at all levels
of development, according to
capacities/circumstances
• 17 goals/5 directly energy related
• EU sustainable development
strategy
• Ensuring prosperity,
environmental protection and
social cohesion
• Climate change and clean energy,
sustainable transport, sustainable
consumption & production, or the
conservation and management of
natural resource

4. EU climate action
• Europe 2020 strategy (2007)
• 20/20/20 targets
• 2030 climate and energy framework (2014)
• 40% GHG / 27% RE / 27% EE
• Targets are translated into national ndicative or binding targets
• Investments form essential part: Investment Plan for Europe (EFSI)
• Climate action is an integral part of the EU's foreign policy agenda
• EU is the world's largest contributor of climate finance to developing
countries
• Bilateral cooperation/region2region

5. • Energy Union
• Making energy more secure, affordable and sustainable
• Facilitating cross border energy supply, and security supply in all EU MS
• 2020/2030/2050 Strategy
• Clean energy for all EU citizens
• Clean energies in 2015 attracted global investment of over 300 billion euros
• Clean energy is the growth sector of future.
• By mobilising up to 177 billion euros of public and private investment per year
from 2021, this package can generate up to a 1% increase in GDP over the
next decade and create 900,000 new jobs
EU energy policy

6. • Solar energy development
• UfM climate change expert group:
• Cooperation on climate-related policies and projects
• Main objective: development of joint projects, matching projects with
investors/donors/technology
• Cooperation among financial institutions including EU, UECD, `GCF, GEF, WB;
UfM regional climate finance committee
• Side event at UNFCCC: Climate Finance and Energy Transition (COP23 in
Bonn): presenting the results of the UfM climate finance study
Regional Cooperation: Union for the
Mediterranean

7. • EU-GCC dialogue on economic diversification in the context of climate
change
• Innovation, private sector development, clean energy including
interconnections
• EU-GCC clean energy network
• Region to region cooperation on clean technology, in particular RE/EE
• Large network of energy stakeholders in EU and GCC: enabling joint projects
and cooperation (starting from research)
• Workshops/trainings/seminars sharing technology, best practices,
standardisation (including in building efficiency)
Regional Cooperation: GCC

8. • largest research and innovation programme globally
• 80 bn EUR 2014-2020
• 2018-2020 work programme includes:
• Combining solar thermal electricity and desalination with specific focus on
GCC (10 M EUR); potential for research collaboration across the LAS region
• Other priories include circular economy (almost 1bn EUR), or specifically
climate action and energy
Research cooperation: Horizon 2020