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Demand for water, food, energy, land and minerals is rising substantially, making natural resources increasingly scarce and more expensive.

The JRC 'Foresight On' Newsletters are an informative collection of ‘forward-looking’ short stories that address the need to strengthen the Commission’s evidence-informed policymaking and become better prepared for the future...

Petroleum-based plastics are useful but they pose a great threat to the environment and human health. It is highly desirable yet challenging to develop sustainable structural materials...

Monitoring of aflatoxin levels in milk is often complicated in developing countries due to the dominance of informal markets channelling milk in raw form. Farmers’ awareness and voluntary participation...

For the first time, the numerous streams of renewable raw materials and processes in the Flemish economy have been mapped and their economic value for Flanders has been estimated.

The goal of the METROFOOD-IT project is to strengthen Italian scientific excellence in food safety by developing platforms and services for the quality, authenticity and traceability of raw materials and products and the digitization of the sector.

Korea-Spain joint research team develops an itaconic acid mass production method using inexpensive raw materials such as byproducts from gas fermentation from steel mills...

EU Space is set to play a bigger role in the raw materials sector, becoming a key enabler in achieving the rare earth independence envisioned by the new European Critical...

Within the EU Ecolabel Regulation (Regulation (EC) No 66/2010), the European Commission carried out a revision of the EU Ecolabel criteria for ‘growing media, soil improvers...

The ninth edition of IRENA’s series, Renewable energy and jobs: Annual review 2022, produced in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO), provides the latest estimates of renewable...