The Eco-Innovation Observatory recently published its first annual report “The Eco-Innovation Challenge. Pathways to a resource-efficient Europe”. SERI contributed several chapters to this flagship report of the Observatory.

The report analyses the possibilities and challenges of eco-innovation to contribute to the implementation of EU policies such as the recently presented “Flagship Initiative on Resource Efficiency”. The report illustrates that the eco-innovation challenge is two-fold: to further improve the resource-efficiency performance of Europe and to ensure that those efficiency gains are not offset by growth in the total consumption of natural resources. The perception of eco-innovation as being limited to producing “green products” must be overcome to realise the full potential of eco-innovation.

The report also presents and analyses the first results of the “Eco-Innovation Scoreboard”, a new tool to track the eco-innovation performance of EU countries.

The full report “The Eco-Innovation Challenge. Pathways to a resource-efficient Europe” can be downloaded here.
For more information on the Eco-Innovation Observatory, visit www.eco-innovation.eu