The report provides insights into the potential use of forest-based sector indicator sets in Europe. It builds on the rich experience gained with sectorial indicator tools, and connects to aspects...

The last WUF “Transforming our cities for a better urban future” took place in Katowice in June 2022 and gathered over 17.000 participants (including 6,200 connected...

The objective is to train participants to use the open and free data and tools developed by the European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC) to support policy makers, city...

JRC is organising a dedicated training for cities willing to produce a Voluntary Local Review (VLR), based on the European Handbook for SDG Voluntary Local Reviews - 2022...

The World Urban Forum (WUF) has been established as a non-legislative technical forum through the UN General Assembly resolution 56/206 in 2001, is convened by the...

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...

The European Handbook for SDG Voluntary Local Reviews – 2022 edition provides policy makers, urban practitioners and experts with a consolidated method and examples of indicators that European...

The 2022 edition of the European Handbook for SDG Voluntary Local Reviews provides policy makers, urban practitioners and experts with a consolidated method and examples of indicators that European...

In March 2022, the Joint Research Centre held an online workshop on the topic “Constructing assessment indicator dashboards for evidence-informed policymaking”. As part of the preparations to the workshop, I wrote...

The Biomass Utilisation Factor (BUF) is a new metric combining cascading use and production efficiency into one indicator to investigate the circularity of materials for the circular bioeconomy. Cascading use...