This Environmental Statement was produced as the Commission prepared to welcome its new President, Ursula von der Leyen for the period 2019-24. Her Political Guidelines for the Commission recognise the importance of Europe continuing its leading role on the global stage in reduci...
While green bonds are becoming increasingly popular in the corporate finance practice, little is known about their implications and effectiveness in terms of issuers’ environmental engagement. Using matched bond-issuer data, we test whether green bond issues are associated to a r...
In December 2019 the European Commission published the European Green Deal (COM(2019) 640). This Green Deal sets out an ambitious policy framework for sustainable development and climate action and seeks to make Europe climate neutral, sustainable and pollution free. The Green De...
Despite efficiency improvements, CO2 emissions from international shipping are pro-jected to be two to five times higher in 2050 than in 1990. At the Paris climate conference, countries agreed to limit climate change to well below 2°C. Without con-siderable contributions of the s...
In the European Green Deal Communication, adopted in December 2019, the European Commission proposed an ambitious roadmap to “transform the EU into a fair and prosperous society, with a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy where there are no net emissions of greenho...
This report presents the freshwater quantity results obtained from a study on EU integrated policy assessment for the freshwater and marine environment (BLUE2). With the aim to reduce the already existing pressures on Europe’s freshwater resources, EU Member States are planning a...
The Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research provides emission time series from 1970 until 2019 for fossil CO2 for all countries. This report is contributing to the Paris Agreement process with an independent and quantitative view of global fossil CO2 emissions. ...
The steady growth over the past decades of the Telecommunications and ICT Services sector, and its uninterrupted progress with the constant provision of renewed and ever-faster services as well as new applications, has transformed many aspects of our society and lives but has als...
This study sets out to provide guidance to policy and decision-makers in developing a methodology for the inclusion of multiple benefits in cost/benefit assessment of a building’s renovation. It is envisaged that providing a macroeconomic understanding of the wider benefits of en...
Although the EU and all EU Member States have a dedicated climate adaptation policy, none of them can fully show whether we are becoming more resilient. This report looks at how monitoring and reporting could feed into policy evaluation and inform future policies. ...
