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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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, [...]
(Deutsch) Neue Publikation: Globale Effekte einer ökologischen Steuerreform in Europa
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Global implications of a European environmental tax reform
Giljum, S., Lutz, C. & Polzin, C. (2010)
European production and consumption activities are increasingly dependent on material and energy resources from abroad and imply significant economic and environmental consequences in other regions around the world. While the overall level of resource use in Europe has stabilised over the past 20 years, the source of [...]
New project: Eco-Innovation Observatory
SERI is core partner in the “Eco-Innovation Observatory”, a major, 3-year project funded by DG Environment of the EU Commission.
The Eco-Innovation Observatory will support the implementation of various EU activities, such as the Europe INNOVA Eco-Innovation platform and the Environmental Technologies Action Plan (ETAP). Among [...]
