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Forest biodiversity studies conducted across Europe use a multitude of forestry terms, often inconsistently. This hinders the comparability across studies and makes the assessment of the impacts of forest...

Standards play a crucial role in the transition to more sustainable production and consumption models by promoting the development of new markets for innovative products. In the case of the bioeconomy, standards are...

Traceability of geographical origin of food is important because consumers would pay a higher price for local food and for food with geographical origin labels, and because local food...

Commission Decision of 25 February 2016 setting up a Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries, C(2016) 1084, OJ C 74, 26.2.2016, p. 4–10. The Commission...

Eighty percent of the world’s 734 million poor people live in rural areas, and most depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Smallholder farmers managing less than 2...

In 2020, the European Union (EU) introduced the new Green Deal and the Farm to Fork Strategy, an innovative new strategy to make the EU food system sustainable. The review...

Ecosystem services (ES) accounts are essential to quantify and monitor the contribution of ecosystems to human well-being. The System of Environmental and Economic Accounting – Experimental Ecosystem Accounting...

In March 2021, the UN Statistical Commission adopted the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Ecosystem Accounting. The SEEA EA provides detailed guidance measuring the extent and condition of ecosystems...

This initiative will set out detailed rules to encourage the development of voluntary schemes that set standards for the production of sustainable biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels and certify that they...

A new report by BSI, in its role as the UK National Standards Body, identifies five industry sectors, with short to medium term potential for carbon reduction using...