Cities and local authorities are key players in addressing climate change. Since 2008, the European Commission endorses and supports their efforts through the Covenant of Mayors for Climate...

The EU Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy initiative (CoM) brings together local and regional authorities voluntarily committing to develop and implement a Sustainable Energy and Climate Action...

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship, and SMEs (DG GROW), with the scientific support from the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), assesses the Performance...

This document is intended to give an overview of the data sources and methodologies used to compile the dataset on structural SME indicators of the SME Performance Review commissioned by the European Commission (DG...

On May 12th 2022, the JRC organised an online seminar to bring together academics, practitioners and policy-makers to discuss interventions to reduce loneliness among youth. The objectives of the seminar...

This paper investigates the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings of 20 leading stock exchange indices by analyzing and aggregating ratings of underlying stocks. ESG ratings are...

Here, we develop further the national chemical footprint assessment methods using Sweden as an example to enhance the precision of calculations. First, we integrate grid data...

We estimate the direct causal effect of loneliness on a variety of health outcomes using a sample of second-generation immigrants among older adults drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing...

This report accompanies the release of the soil dataset collected as part of the 2018 Land Use/Cover Area frame statistical Survey’ (generally referred to as LUCAS Soil). It presents...

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...