Monitoring the progress of circular economy policies requires robust estimates of the environmental impacts due to the consumption in individual countries also considering those effects beyond their...
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→ The environmental impacts of EU food production and consumption have risen along time, transgressing some planetary boundaries. → Biodiversity footprint is driven by land...
In January 2018, the European Commission adopted the first EU monitoring framework for the circular economy, aimed at tracking the progress of the EU and the Member States. Following the launch of the new...
The EU must continue its efforts to reduce consumption of materials and generation of waste to achieve a more circular economy according to the European Commission’s revised Circular Economy...
The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission has developed a tool to allow Member States to customize the calculation of the Consumption Footprint indicators: the “Member States – Consumption...
This report presents the Consumer Footprint Calculator to assess the environmental impacts of the different lifestyles of EU citizens. It is based on the Consumption Footprint indicator, which follows a life...
Biomass Futures: an integrated approach for estimating the future contribution of biomass value chains to the European energy system and inform future policy formation
The Biomass Futures project assessed the role of bioenergy in meeting Europe's renewable energy targets established by the 2009 Renewable Energy Directive for 2020 and provided outlooks to 2030...
This report presents the results of the Life Cycle Indicators (LCIND2) project, aimed at developing two sets of Life cycle Assessment-based indicators for assessing the environmental impact of EU...
This report provides an overview of the LCA applied to assessing environmental impacts of consumption in EU as a basis to support several policies and the assessment of their impacts and benefits. The content builds...