This Technology Development Report for ‘Sustainable Advanced Biofuels’ is an update to the version produced in 2018. Since then, the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) the socalled ‘recast’ of 2009/28/EC has been published (Directive 2018/2001 or REDII). It contains a 14% target for renewable ener...

In December 2015 at the Climate conference (COP 21) in Paris, policy makers agreed on the ambition to keep the temperature bellow 2 0C aiming for 1.5 0C. According to the IEA, to reach the 2 0C scenario target, it will be necessary to store around 94 Giga tonnes of (cumulative) or 6 Giga tonnes ...

This report summarises the results of the 2019 pilot study on the market surveillance of light-duty motor vehicles tailpipe emissions. Environmental pollutant emissions performances and CO2 emissions of thirty-five light-duty vehicles are presented. A new methodology for Euro 6d-TEMP and Euro 6d...

The purpose of this report is to provide an assessment of the state of the art of ocean energy technology, to identify their development need and barriers and to define areas for further R&D in order to meet announced deployment targets and EU policy goals. The analysis focuses primarily on tida...

Citizen Science evolved from a long tradition in fields, such as biodiversity and meteorology, into almost all scientific fields. Simultaneously, regional and global communities became well organised and interconnected, and we arrived at a situation in which Citizen Science is not only prominent...

This summary report provides a brief factual overview of the replies received, with information on the respondents as well as the number of responses and range of opinions. The replies gathered through the consultation will help the European Commission to understand the views and perceptions of ...

This report summarizes the results of an experimental study assessing the real-world environmental performance and its comparison with laboratory measurements of two Euro VI step C Refuse Collection Heavy-Duty Vehicles. The first is equipped with a common-rail Diesel engine, a Selective Catalyti...

The EU Recovery Plan represents a unique window of opportunity to restart the socioeconomic system addressing the Covid-19 crisis, fostering a shift towards sustainable development. The UN Agenda 2030, with its 17 goals and 169 targets, provides a compass to orientate the recovery in a sustainab...

Forest biomass is a relevant source of energy and material for the European bioeconomy. The JRC Biomass Assessment Study recognized the need for an up-to-date, harmonized and spatially-explicit estimate of the biomass stock in Europe to better understand its current and future contribution to a ...

The main objective of the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard (the Scoreboard) is to benchmark the performance of EU innovation-driven industries against major global counterparts. The 2020 edition of the Scoreboard analyses the 2500 companies that invested the largest sums into R&D worldwid...