The EU has committed to halving food waste at the retail and consumer level following SDG 12.3 by establishing legally binding reduction targets and enabling their reach...
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Food waste is a pressing issue that has significant environmental, social, and economic consequences. In line with its commitment to the global Sustainable Development Goal Target 12.3 of halving...
Behavioural interventions, such as nudges, are increasingly being proposed to achieve behavioural change, such as reducing consumer food waste. Consumer food waste is a pertinent...
Food waste is a global concern already identified to be addressed in the Sustainable Development Goals (12.3) and the EU policy agenda under the Circular Economy Action Plan...
Creating empirical evidence using rigorously implemented experiments is an important precondition to designing and administering effective interventions to reduce consumer food waste. This report outlines, in an accessible...
This behavioural experiment with farmers assessed the effect of two policy features of the new green architecture of the EU common agricultural policy on the adoption of environmentally friendly practices: (1)...
From an environmental perspective, the transition from a fossil to a bio-based economy may underpin some trade-offs associated to the environmental impacts of bio-based supply chains and, there is thus a need...
This report provides an overview of the LCA applied to assessing environmental impacts of production and consumption at the EU and Member State levels as a basis to support several policies and the assessment of their...
To make the transition to a more sustainable bio-based economy, new technologies and products will have to be developed. Nevertheless, it is essential to ensure- at an early stage of development-...
Implementing different interventions with the same goal simultaneously is required to induce green behaviour and, thus, tackle climate change. Combining nudges and monetary incentives is most...