Quaderni IRCrES 16. Cap.7

Blue in the Green
How the European Green Deal will affect
EU seas and the maritime sector

Susanna Paleari

CNR-IRCrES, National Research Council of Italy – Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth, via Corti 12, 20121 Milano, Italy

corresponding author: susanna.paleari@ircres.cnr.it

Abstract

The European Green Deal was presented in 2019 as the European Commission’s roadmap to make Europe the first climate neutral continent by 2050, while ensuring sustainable and inclusive growth. It has been accompanied by the adoption, in the period between 2019 and 2021, of about 20 strategic documents, which address all the environmental policy areas and all the economic sectors. This article illustrates how the EGD strategic framework will affect the European marine environment and the blue economy. In particular, it shows that the blue economy needs to be deeply transformed to deliver on the EU ‘green ambitions’ and that this sustainable transition will result in healthier oceans, which in turn, within a virtuous circle, will bring further benefits to the blue economy. This paper is complementary to the video presented by the author at Blue Planet Economy (BPE) European Maritime Forum 2021.

Keywords: European Green Deal, maritime environment, blue economy.

JEL codes: K32, Q58

How to Cite this Article

Paleari S. (2022). Blue in the Green: how the European Green Deal will affect EU seas and the maritime sector. In Vitali, G. & Zoppi, I.M. (eds). CNR case histories in the Blue Planet Economy (pp. 47-52). Quaderni IRCrES 16. Moncalieri, TO: CNR-IRCrES. http://dx.doi.org/10.23760/2499-6661.2022.16.07