• Project Introduction

    Sustainable City - image courtesy of GlobeScan.com

    Sustainable City : image courtesy of GlobeScan.com


    This online workshop, part of the Jean Monnet Project "GRUEN: Green Urban Environments", provides a platform for its participants to gain insight into the key objectives of the EU's 7th European Union Environment Action Programme to 2020, and share examples and stories from their own communities with their peers in the EU and Asia. 

    The project invites its participants to envision what sustainable development and urban innovation could look like at three geographic levels, as if in three concentric circles:

    • in their local communities
    • in their nation
    • in the wider region

    This workshop aims to encourage its participants to find their voice in sustainable urban development and develop their visions of how a Green City could support a healthy lifestyle with the help of the key objectives outlined in the EAP.

    This project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, and hosted by the Hong Kong Baptist University. The Principal Investigator is Dr Tushar Chaudhuri, External Relations Coordinator, Faculty of Social Sciences, and Associate Head of the Department of Government & International Studies at HKBU.

    For further project infomation, please visit the GRUEN website. 


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EAP Objectives

  • EAP Objectives

    9 priority objectives of the EAP

    • The European Union 7th Environment Action Programme to 2020 (EAP) provides a coherent vision to guide sustainable development and urban innovation in terms of a lifestyle and the global quality of life. The EAP has guided environmental policy in the European Union since the mid-1970’s, and the latest version provides a vision and objectives which are clearly cast in terms of human society living in harmony with nature. The long-term vision of the current EAP describes a style of life as a holistic goal to guide sustainable development:

      “In 2050, we live well, within the planet’s ecological limits. Our prosperity and healthy environment stem from an innovative, circular economy where nothing is wasted and where natural resources are managed sustainably, and biodiversity is protected, valued and restored in ways that enhance our society’s resilience. Our low-carbon growth has long been decoupled from resource use, setting the pace for a safe and sustainable global society.”

    • The 7th Environment Action Programme to 2020 (EAP) identifies three priority areas where more action is needed to protect nature and strengthen ecological resilience, boost resource-efficient, low-carbon growth, and reduce threats to human health and well-being linked to pollution, chemical substances, and the impacts of climate change.

    • Objective #1 Page

      How can we preserve “natural capital”?

    • Objective #2 Page

      How can we create a resource-efficient, low-carbon economy?

    • Objective #3 Page
      How can we answer the challenges to human health and well-being?
    • Objective #8 Page

      How can we design sustainable urban planning?

      This is an EAP “horizontal priority objective”, which applies across multiple policy areas.

    • Objective #9 Page

      How can we cooperate on a global approach?

      This is an EAP “horizontal priority objective”, which applies across multiple policy areas.


    • Test your knowledge

    • EAP Objectives - Quiz

      Test your knowledge on the EAP objectives!


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