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Sustainable Development Goals, European Union portal

Towards a Sustainable Europe by 2030 -- Reflection paper -- assessment of the EU’s performance on the Sustainable Development Goals and 3 scenarios (2019)

Circular Economy – Urban Agenda for the EU. Partnership to identify innovative, feasible solutions for circular economy.

Fossil CO2 & GHG emissions of all world countries, DG JRC - Joint Research Centre, (2017).

Financing Sustainability. Triggering Investments for the Clean Economy, Issue 25, (2017), EPSC - European Political Strategy Centre.

Science for Disaster Risk Management 2017: knowing more and losing less, report by DRMKC - Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre.

Atlas of the Human Planet 2017: Global Exposure to Natural Hazards, Report DG JRC - Joint Research Centre. A summary of exposure to six major natural hazards: earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, floods, tropical cyclone winds, and sea level surge.

Increasing risk over time of weather-related hazards to the European population: a data-driven prognostic study, (2017), DG JRC - Joint Research Centre, The Lancet Planetary Health.

GECO 2017 - Global Energy and Climate Outlook: How climate policies improve air quality, DG JRC - Joint Research Centre. 

Global flood risk to increase five-fold with a 4°C temperature rise, (2017), DG JRC - Joint Research Centre. 

The ARISTOTLE project, (2016-2018), is creating a platform for global immediate reporting of potentially destructive geophysical and meteorological events for timely response by The Emergency Response Coordination Centre.

Space Weather & Critical Infrastructures: Findings and Outlook, (2016), DG JRC - Joint Research Centre.

Bioeconomy Report 2016, EC Bioeconomy Knowledge Centre, DG JRC - Joint Research Centre.

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Co-extinction - simulated scenarios assessing co-extinction potential causes and impacts based on synergies among extinction drivers.

E3ME - Energy, Environment, Economy Model for Europe is a macroeconometric model for Europe, widely used for policy assessment, forecasting and research purposes.

POLES - global energy model assessing the contribution to future energy needs of the various energy types (fossil fuels, nuclear, renewables) and energy vectors.

EPIC - Environmental impact calculator.

POTEnCIA - Policy-Oriented Tool for Energy and Climate Change Impact Assessment.

RHOMOLO - policy impact assessment - growth policies, cohesion policies, structural reforms, territorial impact assessment, and other.

PROMETHEUS - provides detailed projections of energy demand, supply, power generation mix, energy-related carbon emissions, energy prices and investment to the future covering the global energy system.

LUISA - Territorial Modelling Platform.

EU waste model - European Reference Model on Municipal Waste Management.

EE-IO Tools - Tools for Environmentally Extended Input-Output Analysis (EE-IO) for Europe.

WaterGAP is an integrated-environmental model, combining socio-economic drivers and climate change in a single, integrated framework.

GEM-E3 - macro-economic tool for modelling Energy, Climate and Air Quality policies.

RIAT-SHERPA - Screening for High Emission Reduction Potential on Air.

CESM - Community Earth System Model 

CLM - Community Land Model 

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