Category Archives: Global Responsibility
Seminar announcement:”A Path to Equitable Global Development – Degrowth in the North and Sustainable Growth in the South?”
Humanity at present uses three times the natural resources that our planet offers. Our present ecological footprint requires three planets not one. In addition, non-renewable resources are being used up at an increasing rate and are becoming scarcer from day to day (peak oil and soon peak everything). Totally unsustainable!
A reorientation of the goals of [...]
What’s the footprint of the EU on the Arctic?
The Arctic is often referred to as the bellwether of global climate change. Many species are already critically endangered. Moreover, people and animals of the Arctic are exposed to particularly high doses of globally emitted toxic pollutants due to special air and sea currents. And now the melt down of the Arctic ice masses facilitates [...]
“money.makes.happy”
Yesterday and today (23.-24.2.2010), Friedrich Hinterberger attended the 8th Austrian Armutskonferenz (poverty conference) in Salzburg. His 2-page input to a discussion forum on “a good life for all” (in German language) can be downloaded here.
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 these [...]
A new Eco-innovation policy for Europe
Friedrich Hinterberger takes part in a Stakeholders Consultation on the Environmental Technologies Action Plan organized by the EUROPEAN COMMISSION, DG ENVIRONMENT and DG RESEARCH to discuss a future EU Eco innovation Action Plan.
The Commission’s objective is thus to put in place a new, ambitious eco-innovation agenda to foster eco-innovation in Europe. The new policy will [...]
Call for Applications – 2010 EXIOPOL Summer School, July 11-17, Venice, Italy
Just recently FEEM (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei), project leader of the EU FP6 project EXIOPOL published the call for application to the EXIOPOL Summer School on Environmental Accounting: Externality Valuation and Input-Tools for Policy Analysis, 11-17 July 2010, Venice, Italy. The Summer School is targeted to postgraduate students.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS EXIOPOL SUMMER SCHOOL [...]
New project for Eurostat on water and energy accounting methods
SERI develops water and energy accounting methods for Eurostat
Last week the kickoff meetings for a new project for Eurostat – the Statistical Office of the European Community – were held in Luxembourg and Wiesbaden. SERI is leading a highly qualified consortium working in this 2-years project, providing assistance to the methodological development of water (Activity [...]
SERI published guide on environmental and social indicators
The guide, written by six SERI scientists, provides a quick, hands-on overview of selected environmental and social indicators for Civil Society Organisations to measure sustainable consumption and production. Indicators are valuable tools for Civil Society Organisations in order to achieve their targets as they create a sense of precision and attract interest making.
In addition the [...]
New report on interlinkages between sustainability indicators (INDI-LINK)
The final report of the INDI-LINK project (Indicator-based evaluation of interlinkages between different sustainable development objectives) has been published by Stefan Giljum and Christine Polzin. The reports shows how the project team developed and improved indicators for sustainable development in the EU and assessed the interlinkages between different priorities [...]
“A vision for the Planet in 2050″
The latest issue of the newsletter of the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP) contains a short report of a workshop held in Lund, Sweden in October 2008 to develop a vision for our planet in 2050. The report, written by Jill Jäger, one of the organizers of the workshop, describes a [...]
