Category Archives: Resource Use
Establishing thresholds and indicators for environmental sustainability
The European Commission has repeatedly underlined the need to respect the limits of the planet’s natural resources, including the capacity to provide renewable resources and absorb pollutants. So where are the “danger zones” before the tipping points (thresholds) that lead to potential long-term or irreversible consequences? While numerous indicators of sustainability exist, very few of [...]
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 on Environmental [...]
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 of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy [...]
Main European conference on Sustainable Consumption and Production in the Netherlands in October 2010 – call for papers
The ERSCP-EMSU conference 2010 will be held between 25 and 29 October 2010 in Delft, Netherland.
This year the conference focuses on „knowledge collaboration & learning for sustainable innovation“. The conference addresses issues like:
How to bring about sustainable consumption and system innovations & transitions to sustainability?
How can higher education facilitate sustainable innovation practices?
How can we improve [...]
New article: Raw Material Equivalents of International Trade
This new article, co-authored by Stefan Giljum and published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology, estimates the material flows required along the whole production chains of imports and exports for selected Latin American countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico. These indirect material flows (also called “ecological rucksacks”) of imports and exports are calculated as [...]
SERI zum Klimawandel
In Kopenhagen findet derzeit die Klimakonferenz der Vereinten Nationen statt und die Klimaverhandlungen gehen nun in die entscheidende Phase.
SERI arbeitet in mehreren Projekten an Themen, die dort verhandelt werden. Dazu gehören der Zusammenhang zwischen Klimaveränderung und Lebensqualität, die Beschäftigung mit dem Problem sog. „Klima-MigrantInnen“, die korrekte Zuordnung der CO2-Emissionen auf diejenigen, die die für die Emissionen verantwortlichen Güter letztlich konsumieren oder Vorschläge für eine ökologische Steuerreform.
Politikvorschläge für Kopenhagen: Mit einer Ökologischen Steuerreform kann die EU ihre Klimaziele erreichen
Viel wird in diesen Tagen darüber gesprochen und geschrieben, was Unternehmen, Konsumenten und die Verhandler auf dem internationalen Parket in Kopenhagen tun können, um einen positiven Beitrag für die längst überfällige Reduktion von Treibhausgasen zu ermöglichen. Es gibt aber auch durchaus Spielräume für die nationale und Europäische Politik, diese Beiträge zu unterstützen. Im Projekt „Ressourcenproduktivität, [...]
Final report of the petrE project published
The Anglo-German-Foundation published the final report of the petrE project on “Resource productivity, environmental tax reform and sustainable growth in Europe“. The final report was compiled by the project coordinator, Paul Ekins. Christine Polzin and Stefan Giljum from SERI were lead authors of the report chapter dealing with the global economic and environmental implications of [...]
