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To meet international and European sustainability goals, the transition to sustainable agriculture is pivotal and ways to achieve it are under discussion. Conventional agricultural systems are typically...

The EEA briefing " The benefits to biodiversity of a strong circular economy" explores how circular economy can reduce and, in some cases, reverse the impacts of production...

Meeting increasing food demands in an environmentally sustainable manner is a worldwide challenge. Applying life cycle analysis to different scenarios, we show that a 47–99% reduction in phosphorus...

Rapid urbanization and population growth have increased the need for grain transportation in China, as more grain is being consumed and croplands have been moved away from cities...

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...

The exploitation of forest biomass for bioenergy is commonly perceived as part of a broad strategy for climate change mitigation due to the view that forest biomass is carbon neutral. The aims of this study...

Food consumption is one of the major causes of climate change, resource depletion, loss of biodiversity, and other kinds of environmental impact by modern households. According to evidence, a global...

Agricultural food production is a main driver of global greenhouse gas emissions, with unclear pathways towards carbon neutrality. Here, through a comprehensive life-cycle assessment using...

The Member States - Consumption footprint tool supports EU27 (2020) Member States to calculate their environmental performance over 16 impact categories including...

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...