Category Archives: Global Responsibility
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 [...]
(Deutsch) Neue Publikation:Ressourcennutzung und Ressourcenproduktivität in Asien
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MELIA project – SERI publishes Leaflet in English and Arabic
On March 21-25 the fourth workshop of the EU-FP5 project MELIA (Mediterranean Dialogue on Integrated Water Management) was held in Amman, Jordan. For the dissemination of the project results SERI prepared a leaflet on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and Water Governance (WGOV) in English and Arabic.
The MELIA project aims at establishing a strategic [...]
Interim-Report on the results of the evaluation of methodologies assessed with the RACER framework
Lutter, S., Wilting, H., Wiedmann, T., Palm, V., Giljum, S. (2008)
ERA-NET SKEP Project EIPOT (Development of a methodology for the assessment of global environmental impacts of traded goods and services)
1.1 Background
Issues related to environmental consequences of intensifying international trade have gained significant importance in European Union (EU) and worldwide policies in the [...]
Development of a methodology for the assessment of global environmental impacts of traded goods and services
Wiedmann, T., Wilting, H., Lutter, S., Palm, V., Giljum, S., Wadeskog, A., Nijdam, D. (2009)
Final Report of the SKEP ERA-NET Project EIPOT. Environment Agency UK
In 2008, the SKEP (Scientific Knowledge for Environmental Protection) network commissioned research to develop a suitable methodology to assess transnational environmental impacts through international trade, which led to the [...]
CEECEC Newsletter now out!
The third Newsletter (June 2010) of the SERI project CEECEC has just been published. Inside you will find: news on the CEECEC Ecological Economic Course, new case studies, CEECEC and degrowth, and much more. Read the newsletter here
CEECEC (Civil Society Engagement with ECological EConomics) is a European Commission [...]
Stefan Giljum speaks in the European parliament on how to measure Europe’s resource use
Two weeks ago Stefan Giljum gave two talks in the course of a linked series of events concerning the topic “Measuring Europe’s Resource Use”. Stefan Giljum presented an indicator set developed by Friends of the Earth Europe together with Sustainable Europe Research Institute which aims at being a workable yet effective solution to [...]
(Deutsch) Die Klimabilanz des österreichischen Außenhandels
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