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From efficient water use to quitting fossil fuels – survey shows different approaches to resource efficiency across Europe: Resource efficiency is a policy priority for Europe. However, across the region there are many different approaches to ‘doing more with less’, as shown by a survey of countries’ policies, carried out by the European Environment Agency (EEA).
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Future environmental priorities: some reflections — SOER synthesis chapter 8: Located in The European environment – state and outlook 2010 › Synthesis › The European environment – state and outlook 2010: Synthesis
Geographical coverage of green economy related assessments, 257 review templates: -
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Global demand of selected emerging technologies for raw materials in 2006 and 2030 relative to global output of each material in 2006: -
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Green budgets: the potential for economic instruments to power environmental change: The budget is one area where governments can influence our interaction with the environment – encouraging beneficial behaviour, and discouraging environmental destruction. As a conference on environmental fiscal reform opens at the European Environment Agency (EEA), we consider the potential for using financial carrots and sticks to improve the environment.
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Green Economy: Prof. Jacqueline McGlade's short video address about the green economy.
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Green economy: What is a 'green economy'? Although it is still debated, many organisations — EEA included — now have a shared understanding of the concept. At the most basic level, a green economy is one that generates increasing prosperity while maintaining the natural systems that sustain us.
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Green Economy, Sustainable consumption and production and resource efficiency – what does that mean?: Concepts such as Green Economy, Resource efficiency and Sustainable Consumption and Production are currently discussed as pathways to reduce environmental pressures in Europe and beyond. But what do these concepts mean? The European Environment Agency has interviewed some selected key stakeholders - from government, business, non-governmental organisations and academia - and asked them for their understanding of these concepts.
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Greening our economy: Most people will remember 2011 as a year of financial turmoil, the Japanese earthquake tsunami nuclear disaster, country bailouts in Europe and mass protests linked to the Arab Spring, the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Spanish Indignados. Only a few will remember that it was also the year scientists discovered more than 18 000 new species living on our planet. Even fewer can name one species that was declared extinct.
Located in Signals — every breath we take › Signals 2012 › Articles
Greening the economy – preparing for a new Earth Summit in Rio: European Environment Agency (EEA) Executive Director Jacqueline McGlade will be in New York this week, working towards a historic environmental summit next year.
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