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The Consumption Footprint
- covers 16 Environmental Footprint categories, including trade-embedded impacts
- includes 164 representative products from five areas of consumption (Food, Mobility, Housing, Household Goods and Appliances)
- offers a high level of granularity, with data at both national and product level and at different stages of the lifecycle
- can be used to monitor policies over time, identify hotspots, and analyse policy scenarios
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Consumption Footprint
The European Commission has developed an assessment framework to monitor the evolution of the overall environmental footprint of EU production and consumption, and to compare the footprint against planetary boundaries. The consumption…
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