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Sustainable society index (SSI) : taking societies' pulse along social, environmental and economic issues
Saisana, Michaela (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2012
the framework. Key results on the world landscape of societies' achievements confirmed the inverted shaped relationship … not the only way to monitor sustainability. But it is a conceptually and statistically sound tool that is widely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015308714
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Trade effects of sustainability standards : a review of literature
Schaefer, K. Aleks (contributor); Nes, Kjersti (contributor) - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2023
Sustainability standards may generate two opposing effects on trade flows between the importer adopting the standard … externalities. The trade effects of voluntary sustainability standards tend toward 'trade enhancing' outcomes as opposed to `trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015278776
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Strategic energy technology plan : scientific assessment in support of the materials roadmap enabling low carbon energy technologies. Hydrogen and fuel cells
Cerri, I. (contributor); Lefebvre-Joud, F. (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2012
A group of experts from European research organisations and industry have assessed the state of the art and future needs for materials' R&D for hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. The work was performed as input to the European Commission's roadmapping exercise on materials for the European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015308377
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Strategic energy technology plan : scientific assessment in support of the materials roadmap enabling low carbon energy technologies. Hydrogen and fuel cells
Cerri, I. (contributor); Lefebvre-Joud, F. (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2012
A group of experts from European research organisations and industry have assessed the state of the art and future needs for materials' R&D for hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. The work was performed as input to the European Commission's roadmapping exercise on materials for the European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015308378
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Environmental benchmarks for buildings : EFIResources : resource efficient construction towards sustainable design
Gervasio, H. (contributor); Dimova, S. (contributor) - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2018
the proposed approach for sustainability design, the performance of a building, focussing on resource use, is benchmarked …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015285464
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Energy sustainability in the transition to renewables : framings from complex systems and social practice theories : policy and research indications from expert discussions
Labanca, N. (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2018
Several countries in the world are currently engaged in an energy transition entailing a massive shift to renewable … the environmental, economic and social sustainability of human activities in important ways. Their attention is however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015285997
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Applicability of the Sustainable Structural Design (SSD) method at urban/regional/national level
Caruso, Maria Chiara (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2017
The alarming data on world climatic change, resources impoverishment and increasing human diseases caused by … sustainable approach to every human activity. Sustainability is an ambitious challenge for Europe development and European policy … aspects of sustainability, identifying the areas which an intervention could reduce the energy consumptions, the CO2 emissions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015287149
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Prevention of waste in the circular economy : analysis of strategies and identification of sustainable targets : the food waste example
Cristobal Garcia, Jorge (contributor); Vila, M. (contributor) - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2016
waste, which resulted in the publication of the 2015 report "Improving Sustainability and Circularity of European Food Waste … insight and analysis on the sustainability of food waste prevention strategies. Among other municipal waste streams, food … influence the sustainability performance of food waste management. On the other hand, this report stresses that the definition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015292353
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Prevention of waste in the circular economy : analysis of strategies and identification of sustainable targets : the food waste example
Cristobal Garcia, Jorge (contributor); Vila, M. (contributor) - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2016
waste, which resulted in the publication of the 2015 report "Improving Sustainability and Circularity of European Food Waste … insight and analysis on the sustainability of food waste prevention strategies. Among other municipal waste streams, food … influence the sustainability performance of food waste management. On the other hand, this report stresses that the definition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015292354
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Indicators to assess sustainability of transport activities : Part 1: Review of the existing transport sustainability indicators initiatives and development of an indicator set to...
Dobranskyte-Niskota, A. (contributor);  … - European Commission / Joint Research Centre - 2007
international organisations as well as the development of an indicator set to measure sustainability of transport systems. Initially … indicators, Eurostat transport indicators, transport indicator sets from OECD, US EPA, World Bank, UNECE, VTPI as well as taking … sustainability indicators may serve as a valuable framework for the assessment of European transport sustainability performance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015315517