Policy Plans

In 2010, Gemany passed the Energiewende, a comprehensive plan to significantly reduce its GHG emissions and generate 60% of energy from renewables by 2050. Click here to learn more about this plan.

With 75% of its GHG emissions coming from the energy sector, the EU has launched the European Green Deal in an effort to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050.

Adopted in November 2018, the new EU Youth Strategy serves as the framework for EU youth policy cooperation for 2019-2027 and aims to make young people a cornerstone of the future democratic Union.

No national youth strategy developed jointly by the federal states (Länder) and authorities exists in Germany. However, there are individual youth strategies both at national level and in various regions and local communities that build on the notion of an Independent Youth Policy (Eigenständige Jugendpolitik). The federal states (Länder) and local authorities have their own action plans, known as youth plans (Jugendpläne).

Italy's National Energy and Climate Plan is not just an energy strategy but a change of paradigm. Indeed, it is a balanced transition that tackles climate change without leaving anyone behind.

When it comes to youth policies, the Italian government adopts a dual approach, articulated in the development and promotion of two categories of measures: actions that directly target young people; integration actions, based on a transversal approach, in all areas that affect the lives of young people. Youth policies are based on an institutional dialogue between the Government and local autonomies in which financial resources, objectives and priorities for intervention in the field of youth policies are defined.

The National Energy and Climate Plan (PNEC) 2021-2030 is a decisive national policy instrument for defining the strategic lines for the next decade towards carbon neutrality, and is necessarily in line with the visions and narratives defined in the Roadmap for Carbon Neutrality (RNC) 2050.

The National Youth Plan 2018-2021 (PNJ) was adopted by the Council of Ministers in September 2018. The objective of the Plan is to strengthen the protection of the rights of young people and to ensure its transversality. The PNJ focuses on several areas affecting the lives of young people. Want to know more?

Following extensive consultations and assessment efforts, and with public interest in terms of energy and climate at its core, Slovenia’s NECP is set to put the country on the path towards achieving climate neutrality by 2050.

Youth policy in Slovenia is a cross-cutting policy area, therefore legislative provisions targeting youth are included in education, health, employment and housing policy (among others). Nevertheless, there is a framework to ensure that young people’s needs are included and promoted in national policy plans: the National Youth Programme 2013-2022.