Tag Archives: Bruckner M.
New SERI article: “A comprehensive set of resource use indicators from the micro to the macro level”
This new article, published in the Journal “Resources, Conservation and Recycling” [...] , discussed a new set of complementary resource use indicators.
Many of today’s most urgent environmental problems arise from increasing volumes of worldwide production and consumption and the associated use of natural resources, including renewable and non-renewable raw materials, energy, water and land. Solid
New SERI article: “A comprehensive set of resource use indicators from the micro to the macro level”
This new article, published in the Journal “Resources, Conservation and Recycling” [...] , discussed a new set of complementary resource use indicators.
Many of today’s most urgent environmental problems arise from increasing volumes of worldwide production and consumption and the associated use of natural resources, including renewable and non-renewable raw materials, energy, water and land. Solid
Arctic Footprint
The Arctic environment is affected in various ways by EU activities. As a first step towards reducing its environmental impacts, the EU has now analysed its footprint on the Arctic. Many experts from academia, government and civil society were welcomed in Brussels on November 18 to discuss the results of the project EU Arctic Footprint [...]
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 questions in
How do we reach our climate goals?
[...]New research findings and problem solving approaches
Can Austria reach current energy and climate goals by 2020? The research institute SERI along with its partners tried to figure out answers to this question in the e-co project by order of the “Klima- und Energiefonds (Climate and Energy Fund)”. On the one hand, they examined how
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 [...]
