Transformative Resilience: The Key to Governing Europe’s Sustainability Transitions in the Polycrisis

This report explores transformative resilience in the EU’s sustainability transitions within the polycrisis context. Using a conceptual framework of transformative resilience, it addresses the following questions: How can the EU enhance the capacity of its policies to anticipate, adapt to, or absorb shocks while maintaining their transformative intent? How can European policymakers prevent the polycrisis from slowing down, diverting, or cancelling sustainability transitions? Additionally, it examines transformative resilience in the policy areas of energy transition, the circular economy, and just transitions