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The 2023 revised LULUCF regulation will require Tier 2 methods for monitoring all land and carbon pools by the reporting of the 2026 emission year, and then later...

The overall goal was to investigate how IACS input data could be fed in fate and transport models that describe pesticide levels in soils. The hypothesis was...

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...

Healthier, more sustainable and more equitable food systems have a key role to deliver progress on all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This study aims...

Over the last two decades, the European Commission has been driving a process of implementation of life cycle thinking in European product policies. With the development, in a first stage...

In 2011 the EC-JRC published the International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) Handbook recommendations on the use of Impact Assessment models for use in LCA (EC-JRC 2011a)...

To achieve more sustainable production and consumption patterns, we must consider the environmental implications of the whole supply-chain of products, both goods and services, their use, and waste...

In 2011 the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (EC-JRC) published the International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) Handbook recommendations on the use of Impact Assessment...

This brief on the use of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to evaluate environmental impacts of the bioeconomy is one out of a series of briefs from the EC's Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy which intend...

Forests are at the intersection of European policies on climate, energy and environmental protection and will contribute significantly to the shift of the European economy towards a greater and more sustainable use...