The urban green is currently at the core of scientific interest and policy-making in urban planning. The importance of the urban green component of the European Settlement Map (ESM) increases under the light of the absence of a homogenous layer in such coverage and resolution to be used in urban...

The urban green is currently at the core of scientific interest and policy-making in urban planning. The importance of the urban green component of the European Settlement Map (ESM) increases under the light of the absence of a homogenous layer in such coverage and resolution to be used in urban...

The research project EFIResources: Resource Efficient Construction towards Sustainable Design, supports European policies related to the efficient use of resources in construction and its major goal is the development of a performance based approach for sustainable design, enabling to assess...

The BAT reference document (BREF) entitled 'Non-Ferrous Metals Industries' forms part of a series presenting the results of an exchange of information between EU Member States, the industries concerned, non-governmental organisations promoting environmental protection, and the Commission, to...

JRC-Petten conducts scientific and technical activities in the domains of energy technology, renewable energy, energy efficiency, security of energy supply and nuclear reactor safety, some of which require experimental facilities and laboratories. The JRC-Petten site uses a certified system...

The BAT reference document (BREF) entitled 'Common Waste Water and Waste Gas Treatment/Management Systems in the Chemical Sector' forms part of a series presenting the results of an exchange of information between EU Member States, the industries concerned, non-governmental organisations...

Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) is a new tool enabling the verification of the performance claims put forward by developers of innovative environmental technologies. The EU-ETV programme, launched in 2011 by DG-ENV, is supported by Technical Working Groups (TWGs), one for each...

The tourism sector has a large potential to reduce its environmental impacts and many measures are already effectively implemented by companies of this sector. This document describes what are the best practices employed by frontrunners in all aspects under their direct control or on which they...

This work aims at contributing in measuring and evaluating urban green areas in European cities. The main objective of the work was to compare the most common and used dataset on cities available in Europe, Urban Atlas, with the new dataset produced by the JRC, the Green European Settlement Map...

This work aims at contributing in measuring and evaluating urban green areas in European cities. The main objective of the work was to compare the most common and used dataset on cities available in Europe, Urban Atlas, with the new dataset produced by the JRC, the Green European Settlement Map...