This report describes the results of applying an open-source modelling framework to three African power pools: the Central African Power Pool, the Eastern Africa Power Pool and the North African Power Pool. The modelling framework is used to analyse results at country level - where insights rega...
With this report and its scoreboard of indicators, the European Environment Agency (EEA) is responding to the mandate given to it to support with indicators the monitoring of the General Union Environment Action Programme to 2020, 'Living well, within the limits of our planet' (7th EAP). The sco...
The circular economy is rapidly rising up political and business agendas. In contrast to today’s largely linear, ‘take-make-use-dispose’ economy, a circular economy represents a development strategy that enables economic growth while aiming to optimise the chain of consumption of biological and ...
The present report refines the methods for the assessment of the following parameters: reusability/recyclability/recoverability- RRR, use of relevant resources, recycled content, use of hazardous substances, durability. These methods are derived from those developed during the first phase of the...
The directive places competent authorities in the position of guardians of the environment. It is their duty to identify liable polluters and to ensure that operators, who caused an imminent threat of, or actual, environmental damage to undertake or finance the required preventive or remedial me...
The European Commission has approved funding for 146 new environmental innovation projects in 18 countries under the LIFE+ Environment Policy & Governance programme 2012. These projects will demonstrate new methods and techniques for dealing with a wide diversity of Europe’s environmental proble...
In order to promote a responsible, socially inclusive and ethically sound implementation of the European Union energy policy, on 19 December 2011 the President of the European Commission requested the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE) to ‘contribute to the debate on ...
