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07 November 2014

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Resource efficiency lessons from south-east Europe

A recently concluded project involving partners from Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia has published a library of guidance on resource efficiency policies and implementation for municipalities. The guidance is primarily intended for cities in the 16 countries that participate in the European Union's South East Europe (SEE) Transnational Cooperation Programme , but is also relevant for municipalities outside those countries.

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Sustainability of production/consumption systems needs a global focus, report argues

The European Union cannot fully move to a green economy based on resource efficiency unless it starts to address the impact that EU production and consumption has beyond its borders, according to the Environmental Indicator Report 2014, published by the European Environment Agency (EEA).

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Understanding bio-based value chains: the case of green gas

GroenGas-GrünesGas is a major European Union backed Interreg IVA project in Germany and the Netherlands that looks at the whole cycle of green gas production and use. The project has 18 sub-projects, one of which, 'Integrated Assessment and Management of Green Gas Supply Chains', is examining how green-gas supply chains can be optimised. Michiel van Galen of LEI Wageningen UR, the socio-economic research institute of Wageningen UR (University & Research centre) in the Netherlands, explains what lessons the project has learned, and how these might be applied in other bio-based supply chains in which non-renewable inputs, such as fossil fuels, could be replaced by renewable bio-based inputs.

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