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Global leaders announced a groundbreaking Declaration on Sustainable Lifestyles and Fairness at the 16th Clean Energy Ministerial Meeting (CEM16). This initiative is a major step towards fostering sustainable lifestyles and fair access to clean energy access worldwide.

Since its launch in June 2023, the EAfA Community on the Green and Digital Transition has been making significant progress in exploring the link between apprenticeships and the twin transition.

At the end of the COP28 UN Climate Conference in Dubai, European Union negotiators succeeded, with partners from around the world, to keep alive the possibility of delivering on the commitment in the Paris Agreement to limit global average temperature increase to 1.5 Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

The European Commission has published two reports focusing on gaps of research and academic literature. They identify crucial aspects that need to be addressed in human and social sciences to guide Europe’s fair green and digital transition in terms of evidence-based science policy investment and to better focus on the relation of green and digital policies and the labour market.

The European Commission has published a working paper on the economic and distributional effects of higher energy prices on households in the EU.

On 29 November 2023, the European Alliance for Apprenticeships (EAfA) hosted a webinar to discuss how apprenticeships can contribute to the green transition in the construction sector. Part of the European Year of Skills, the webinar represented an opportunity for EAfA members to share inspiring app

The EU provides common rules to protect your social security rights - such as a pension or maternity leave - when moving to another European country.

Today, the Commission has proposed concrete steps to further digitalise the coordination of social security systems in Europe, in a dedicated Communication.

Last week the Commission proposed the Net-Zero Industry Act to scale up manufacturing of clean technologies in the EU and make sure the Union is well-equipped for the clean-energy transition. This initiative was announced by President von der Leyen as a part of the Green Deal Industrial Plan.
The Commission presented a Green Deal Industrial Plan to enhance the competitiveness of Europe's net-zero industry and support the fast transition to climate neutrality. The Plan aims to provide a more supportive environment for the scaling up of the EU's manufacturing capacity for the net-zero technologies and products required to meet Europe's ambitious climate targets.