Industry, and in particular the energy-intensive extraction and production of basic materials such as chemicals, cement, steel, non-ferrous metals, ceramics, and so on, is responsible for approximately 50% of global greenhouse gas emissions. If EU industry makes a successful low-carbon...

We follow the multi-dimensional approach to socio-economic sustainability and distinguish among the needs of society in the four dimensions that make up the basic pillars in our model. Thus, we focus on the sustainable development of the economy, society, environment and institutions.

Development plans form one of the bases from which a development process starts. One of the problems encountered is that a large variety of action parameters in the political and economic spheres have to be taken into account in the drafting of a plan and in structural analysis. The problem of...