This SIA seeks to analyse the extent to which the EU-Myanmar Investment Protection Agreement (IPA) may affect the economy and sustainability issues, including social and labour standards, environment, and human rights, in Myanmar. The SIA finds that the IPA may largely have positive economic...

The European Union (EU) and Myanmar began negotiating a bilateral investment protection agreement (IPA) in March 2014. The proposed EU-Myanmar IPA represents an ambitious step for both parties, as there are currently no bilateral investment treaties between Myanmar and any EU Member State....

This report has been produced for the purpose of providing material for the EU's Climate-ADAPT platform, summarising some of the findings of the Study on the Impact of Climate Change and Adaptation Measures in the Outermost Regions (under framework CLIMA.A.4/FRA/2011/0027). This report presents...

Collaborative platforms, such as Airbnb, Blablacar and Peerby, have changed the ways in which goods and services are offered and consumed in the economy. There has been a recent growth in studies analysing the drivers, impacts and scope of the collaborative economy. Some of them point to...

The objective of this study is to assess the economic, social and environmental impacts of alternative policy packages to improve European resource productivity, as measured by GDP per unit of Raw Material Consumption (RMC). The analysis is quantitative in nature and a modelling approach is...

This report provides detailed answers to this question. The study looked at trends of circular economy activities across different sectors and quantified these activities as modelling inputs to provide employment changes for different sectors. Furthermore, the analysis provide estimates of the...