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Quality and consistency of life cycle based decision support are essential in public policy and business context. Those can and should be supported by ‘critical review’...

In close co-operation, DG Environment and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission are developing two harmonised European methodologies for measuring the Environmental Footprint of products (covering...

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) are collaborating within the Life Cycle Initiative to address the need for global guidance...

Production of wine vinegar by fermenting dried grapes and rehydrating with tap water is not allowed by European Regulations. In this study we proved experimentally that δ18O analysis of beverage...

Multi-label document classification is the task of automatically assigning multiple categories to the same document (e.g. a book is about cooking and about Austrian food). At least for Machine Learning...

Sensitivity analysis of the Environmental Performance Index

The Econometrics and Applied Statistics Unit at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Ispra (Italy) has undertaken for a third consecutive year, upon invitation of the WJP, a thorough...

In response to the need for further clarifications concerning the emerging concept of the “bio-economy”, the present study scrutinizes this concept in order to better delineate its analytical scope. It also...

The aim of this report is to investigate the current use and needs of the ILCD DN and of the ELCD supporting the EF and the LC Indicator projects providing a coherent data basis increasing usability...

The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) by Transparency International measures perceptions of corruption in the public sector in different countries around the world. Upon invitation of the CPI team, the JRC...