The EU's Europe 2020 Strategy for growth sets the priority of moving to a more resource efficient, green and competitive economy. The LIFE programme has a long track record of innovative approaches for building a resource efficient Europe. This LIFE Focus publication aims to showcase how LIFE...

The EU's Europe 2020 Strategy for growth sets the priority of moving to a more resource efficient, green and competitive economy. The LIFE programme has a long track record of innovative approaches for building a resource efficient Europe. This LIFE Focus publication aims to showcase how LIFE...

LIFE is a catalyst for investments in innovative green businesses that will help generate more jobs, both directly and indirectly. Replication of successful projects and ideas can lead to further green growth. LIFE funding has supported the upscaling of technologies and the replication of...

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...

In a circular economy, waste generation is minimised, and the value of products, materials and resources is maintained for as long as possible. It is a new economic model that offers tremendous opportunities. It helps save natural resources, combats climate change, makes production, consumption...

Urban sustainability indicators are tools that allow city planners, city managers and policymakers to gauge the socio-economic and environmental impact of, for example, current urban designs, infrastructures, policies, waste disposal systems, pollution and access to services by citizens. They...

Urban sustainability indicators are tools that allow city planners, city managers and policymakers to gauge the socio-economic and environmental impact of, for example, current urban designs, infrastructures, policies, waste disposal systems, pollution and access to services by citizens. They...

Level(s) aims at improving resource efficiency in the construction sector and bringing buildings into the circular economy; a regenerative economic system in which resource and energy consumption are minimised. Level(s) links the individual building's environmental performance with resource...

Essen, our European Green Capital for 2017, is an excellent example of a city striving for, and achieving, great progress in environmental sustainability. Essen's transformation into the greenest city in North Rhine-Westphalia is particularly interesting and impressive as the city's development...