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In 2020 the European Union introduced the European Green Deal connected with the goal to become
climate neutral in 2050, which means that there should be no net emissions of greenhouse gases any-
more . Next to large investments into the transformation of the industrial sectors the European Union
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also launched campaigns like the Climate Pact, wich aims at connecting people all over Europe to join
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their forces in climate action
The following two chapters provide general information about sustainable consumption and produc-
tion of food and clothes. This handbook doesn’t claim to provide exhaustive information about these
topics. To get more detailed information, the data bank of the project, which can be found on the
projects website provides additional ressources and information.

As descbribed above, the focus lies on the connection to the everyday life of students and options for
individual or collective action. In this sense the chapter provide facts and figures about production and
consumption and guidelines for individual consumption decisions. As this project presents an Euro-
pean cooperation of organisations from different countries, aspects like labels for food and clothes or
ecological standards might differ from country to country.

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4 https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en

5 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/files/attachment/862911/climate-pact-for-all-europeans-march-
2020_en.pdf.pdf