The European Commission (EC) has been developing an assessment framework to monitor the evolution of environmental impact associated to the European Union (EU) consumption. The assessment framework should help to support a wide array of policies, such as those related to resource efficiency,...

The European Commission (EC) has been developing an assessment framework to monitor the evolution of environmental impact associated to the European Union (EU) consumption. The assessment framework should help to support a wide array of policies, such as those related to resource efficiency,...

The Consumer Footprint aims at assessing the potential environmental impacts due to consumption. The calculation of the Consumer Footprint of the European Union (EU) is based on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of representative products (or services) purchased and used in one year by an EU...

Biodiversity loss is recognised as one of the top risks that humanity is facing. The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 highlights the need to better integrate biodiversity considerations into decision-making, and commits to the development of methods to measure the environmental footprint of...

Soil is a key environmental compartment, determining the supply of crucial ecosystem services as well as supporting biodiversity below and above ground. In the last 15 years, substantial efforts have been made to incorporate the impacts on land due to production processes - from a life cycle...

In the context of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), according to ISO 14044 (ISO 2006), normalisation is an optional step of Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) which allows the practitioner expressing results after characterization using a common reference impact. This supports the comparison between...

This report details the methodology of the Consumption Footprint indicator employed in the science for policy report 'Consumption Footprint and Domestic Footprint: Assessing the environmental impacts of EU consumption and production' and the Consumption Footprint Platform. In particular, it...

This report details the methodology of the Consumption Footprint indicator employed in the science for policy report 'Consumption Footprint and Domestic Footprint: Assessing the environmental impacts of EU consumption and production' 1 and the Consumption Footprint Platform2 . In particular, it...