Freight transport keeps the world running. In Germany freight transport has grown massively these past 30 years, by 75 %. Its climate-harming emissions are nowadays 25 % higher. Continuously high burdens of air pollution, noise and land consumption represent the downside of freight transport....

In order to support businesses in improving their resource efficiency, Member States use a variety of approaches, ranging from voluntary to regulatory measures. This study assesses the scope of application of ten relevant measures and provides good practice cases of these ten measures across...

The scarcity of many raw materials holds significant conflict potentials as global demand increasesrapidly. This does not only apply to fossil resources, focussed in the public debate, but also to manyrare mineral resources. An important example is the ore coltan, from which tantalum is...