The European Commission has adopted a set of proposals to make the EU’s climate, energy, transport and taxation policies fit for reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels. For more information, see European Commission website.

Creative Europe includes a set of guidelines, actions, recommendations and also project evaluation criteria to follow the European Green Deal as one of the European Commission’s political priorities for 2019-2024. “Reflecting the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the Programme is intended to contribute to mainstreaming climate actions and to the achievement of an overall target of 30 % of Union budget expenditure supporting climate objectives.” – see Regulation establishing the Creative Europe Programme (2021 to 2027).

In 2023, the European Commission has published a publication Greening the Creative Europe Programme that gives an overview of how the creative and cultural sector can contribute to the European Commission efforts to mainstream climate actions through the Creative Europe Programme.

In 2022, the Commission also published Creative Europe 2014-2020: gender equality, European Green Deal, digitisation, with cooperation projects addressing the Commission’s policy priorities such as the European Green Deal, gender equality and the digital transition.

Since 2020, the Commission has been promoting the New European Bauhaus, an environmental, economic and cultural project that aims to combine design, sustainability, inclusiveness, affordability and investment to help deliver the European Green Deal.