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Available now: New SERI Working Paper: Resource Use and Resource Efficiency in Emerging Economies
Resource consumption in industrialized countries and its impacts on the planet are widely studied and discussed. A topic that has so far received far less attention is resource use and resource efficiency in the fast growing emerging economies, such as China, India and Brazil, that are shaping global trends.
SERI Working Paper 12 provides the [...]
New SERI project: Assessing resource indicators and targets for the Europe 2020 strategy
Resource efficiency is a key part of the Europe 2020 strategy which aims to transform Europe into a knowledge-based, resource-efficient economy. Natural resources provide raw materials, energy, food, water and land, as well as environmental and social services. With the project “Assessment of Resource Efficiency Indicators and Targets” for DG Environment, SERI contributes to the [...]
New SERI article: “A comprehensive set of resource use indicators from the micro to the macro level”
This new article, published in the Journal “Resources, Conservation and Recycling” [...] , discussed a new set of complementary resource use indicators.
Many of today’s most urgent environmental problems arise from increasing volumes of worldwide production and consumption and the associated use of natural resources, including renewable and non-renewable raw materials, energy, water and land. Solid
New publication: Global responsibility for CO2 emissions
[...]Which countries and regions are the biggest net importers and exporters of CO2 emissions embodied in trade? How much CO2 has been shifted between different regions through international trade? What are the implications of considering consumer responsibility for global climate and trade policies? Martin Bruckner, Christine Polzin and Stefan Giljum have addressed these questions in
Global responsibility for CO2 emissions
[...]Which countries and regions are the biggest net importers and exporters of CO2 emissions embodied in trade? How much CO2 has been shifted between different regions through international trade? What are the implications of considering consumer responsibility for global climate and trade policies? Martin Bruckner, Christine Polzin and Stefan Giljum have addressed these questions in
August 21st is “Earth Overshoot Day” 2010
[...]In 2010, it has taken humanity less than nine months to exhaust its available ecological budget for the year, according to data from Global Footprint Network, in which SERI is one of the partner organisations.
Global Footprint Network calculates nature’s supply in the form of biocapacity, the amount of resources the planet regenerates each year,
“Overconsumption” now available in Spanish
In 2008, SERI established a cooperation with the environmental NGOs GLOBAL 2000 and Friends of the Earth Europe on the issue of “Europe’s Resource Use”. We consider that it is essential for sustainable development in Europe that a debate is started about our resource use and its environmental and social impacts around the world.
In [...]
Resource use and resource productivity in Asia: Trends over the past 25 years
Giljum, S., Dittrich, M., Bringezu, S., Polzin, C., Lutter S. (2010)
This working paper provides the first comparative and quantitative assessment of material consumption and resource productivity in Asia between 1985 and 2005. 19 Asian countries were selected for the analysis, together representing more than 90% of GDP in Asia. The study is based on [...]
SERI input to review of EU “Resource Strategy”
Giljum, S. (2009)
Executive summary:
Two important environmental policy strategies of the EU will be reviewed during 2010: the “Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources” and the “Thematic Strategy on the Prevention and Recycling of Waste”. The upcoming Belgian EU presidency therefore organises two expert workshops with attendence of the European Commission, [...]
