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organisers of the conference 'Time for action — towards sustainable consumption and production in Europe'. Three sets of three … top-priority recommendations towards sustainable consumption and production (SCP) in Europe were developed at the …
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This guide shows how a life cycle approach can be used to identify and reduce the environmental and health impacts of the products we use. It underlines the importance of considering these issues across the entire life cycle of a product and sets them within the context of policy development,...
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The consumption of goods and services in EEA member countries is a major driver of global resource use — and associated … European consumption taking place beyond Europe. Food and drink, housing, mobility and tourism are responsible for a large part … of the pressures and impacts caused by consumption in the EU. Achieving significant reductions in environmental pressures …
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of consumption and production patterns. It begins with a review of key recent environmental trends in the region, then … production and consumption patterns. Addressing environmental challenges in a sustainable manner requires a close review of …
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This Country Focus studies the development of private consumption in France during the decade before the crisis. Are … French consumers greater spendthrifts than their European fellows? In this paper, we estimate a consumption function to show … that strong growth of private consumption in France during the pre-crisis decade is explained by the main determinants …
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In Germany private consumption virtually stagnated for nearly a decade and clearly lagged behind GDP growth. This … Country Focus uses the estimation of a consumption function to show that the drop in employment is the most important factor … and the expiry of the more generous depreciation rules have also held back private consumption. Since these one-offs will …
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