On 17 October 2011, the award ceremony of the Energy Globe Vienna 2011 took place. This award honours projects that conserve and protect our resources or that employ renewable energy.

SERI was nominated for the SERI set of indicators, which covers the categories of materials, water, land area, and GHG emissions. It allows a comprehensive analysis of resource use at different scales. The indicator set identifies potential savings in companies and was used for products and companies and on a national level as well. The European Commission has recently defined this set as a central set of resource use indicators.

Our society and our economy are based on the use of natural resources. Today’s resource use has reached a dimension which cannot be sustained in the long term and which causes serious environmental and human impacts. The SERI set of indicator set contributes to measuring resource use and – based on this information – to apply appropriate measures. Therefore, the SERI set of indicators was selected by the jury and received the 3rd place at the Energy Globe Vienna award.

Here you find an article about the application of the set of indicators on measuring Europes resource use.

photo: wkw/ Florian Wieser