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Resource‑efficient green economy and EU policies

Publication Created 14 Jul 2014 Published 15 Jul 2014
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This report highlights the major forces fostering the shift to a resource-efficient green economy in Europe, including the role of EU policies. Currently, the economic and technological changes leading towards green economy objectives across the EU economy are proceeding too slowly; what is required is a much bigger, deeper, and more permanent change in the EU economy and society to create both new opportunities and substitution processes across the economic structure. To bring this about, it is important to study and understand enabling factors and mechanisms at the crossroads of policies and real economy dynamics that could accelerate and direct the transformation.
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Publication Created 14 Jul 2014 Published 15 Jul 2014
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EEA Report No 2/2014
This report highlights the major forces fostering the shift to a resource-efficient green economy in Europe, including the role of EU policies. Currently, the economic and technological changes leading towards green economy objectives across the EU economy are proceeding too slowly; what is required is a much bigger, deeper, and more permanent change in the EU economy and society to create both new opportunities and substitution processes across the economic structure. To bring this about, it is important to study and understand enabling factors and mechanisms at the crossroads of policies and real economy dynamics that could accelerate and direct the transformation.

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Labour productivity
Employment shares
Direct and Induced CO2 emissions (consumption perspective) by macro-sector
Analysis of innovation performance and carbon intensity
Analysis between eco-innovation and carbon intensity
Trend of trade of 'Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases' (code 8421.39) between EU27 and China
The green bond market
Domestic final demand shares
Projections for primary energy consumption
Value added shares
Trend of intra-EU-27 trade (export) of solar cells
Trend of trade of solar cells between the EU27 and extra-EU countries
Trend of trade of 'Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases' between the EU27 and extra-EU27 countries
Change in 'consumption perspective' emission intensity of real final demand
Ratio between ‘consumption perspective’ emission intensity of real final demand and ‘production perspective’ emission intensity of value added
Ratio between consumption and production perspective by macro-sector (CO2 emissions)
Direct CO2 emissions (production perspective) by macro-sector
Direct emission intensity
Percentage change in emission intensity
Intensity of municipal solid waste landfilling per unit of GDP (ratio of MSW landfilling to real GDP)
Projections for municipal solid waste to landfill
Trend in patenting activity with European coverage for three selected technological groups: Green Innovation, Renewables and Waste
Structural decomposition analysis for 'consumption perspective' CO2 emissions
Intensity of primary energy consumption (PEC) per unit of GDP (ratio of PEC to real GDP)
Objectives and targets of EU environmental policies by sector and year
Environmental tax revenues
Structural decomposition analysis for 'consumption perspective' CO2 emissions
Environmental tax revenues

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A strong environment as the basis for Europe's future economy Europe selected its new policy makers. They will need to address not only today's challenges but also set in motion policies that will affect Europeans well beyond their five-year mandate. What do they need to do today to make sure that Europeans live well in the future? By taking action at the EU level and tackling environment and climate issues, EU policy makers can actually revive the economy and guarantee our long-term well-being.
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Resource efficiency Resource efficiency is essential if we want to decouple economic development from environmental degradation. Earth's resources are limited and their extraction generates environmental and climate impacts: using them more efficiently helps minimising these impacts. In that way, resource efficiency is one of the core elements necessary to create a more circular, greener economy in Europe as well as more sustainable production and consumption patterns.
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Resource efficiency Resource efficiency is essential if we aim to produce more from less input, use resources in a sustainable way, and manage them more efficiently throughout their life cycle. Resource efficiency is one of the core elements necessary to create a green economy in Europe and further afield, alongside waste prevention and recycling efforts, and more sustainable production and consumption patterns.

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