The European Green Deal is a flagship initiative of the European Commission aimed at achieving a sustainable future through a clean energy transition. This report proposes a sustainability assessment framework (SAF) for evaluating energy technologies, inspired by the Safe and Sustainable by...

This report is part of an annual series from the Clean Energy Technology Observatory that address the status of technology development and trends, value chains and markets in the European Union and internationally. The present report aims to provide an overall integrated analysis of the clean...

The current challenges affecting the EU food system call for an urgent shift towards more sustainability. In this context, voluntary Green public procurement criteria (GPP), referring to the environmental dimension, exist at EU level since 2008. Sustainable public procurement (SPP) could play a...

The current challenges affecting the EU food system call for an urgent shift towards more sustainability. As set out by the Commission Farm to Fork Strategy, the path to achieve such an ambitious goal should promote policy coherence at EU and national level, mainstream sustainability in...

After severe and prolonged droughts that affected northern Africa during the last 6 years and Europe for over 2 years, drought conditions are back again in large parts of Europe, particularly in the Mediterranean region, eastern Europe and the Baltic countries. Recent above-average temperatures...