To achieve the ambitious target of climate neutrality of the EU set out within the EU Green Deal, a reduction of energy use in the highly energy consuming building sector is critical. To achieve this, the renovation of existing buildings has been given a key role, starting with the Renovation...

The European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy includes actions aimed at investigating and better understanding the lifecycle impacts of using alternative feedstocks for plastics production. The Joint Research Centre has thus developed, upon request from DG GROW1, a Life Cycle...

The current report is focused on a technical screening and selecting exercise of climate/weather parameters and indices to be used in a bigger JRC Project on Climate Change Induced Migration (CLICIM). The main aim of the current exercise is to select among several tenths of variables and data...

The European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy (COM(2018 28 final) proposes a vision where innovative materials and alternative feedstocks to fossil resources are developed and used for plastics production, where evidence clearly shows that they are more sustainable compared to...