European Commission

Key projects and Studies

Related Studies

  • Belgium:

Evolution of the Belgian Environment Industry, here

  • Denmark:

Joining technology, business and environment - 10 entreprises show the ways, here

  • France:

Hemp in Houses fact sheet, July 2005, ADEME, here (French only)

  • Germany:

GreenTech made in Germany 2.0 - Umwelttechnologie-Atlas für Deutschland, here (only in German)

EcoDesign - Awareness Raising Campaign for Electrical & Electronics SMEs, here

  • Ireland:

Report - Innovation for a Green Economy - Environment and Technology: A win-win story, here

  • United Kingdom

Financial savings to business from Resource Efficiency, read Defra latest research: 

Research availble here

Sustainable biofuels: prospects and challenges. The Royal Society, January 2008.

Report availble here

E3G report: Innovation and Technology Transfer: Framework for a Global Climate Deal, here

Scotland:A Low Carbon Economic Strategy, here

  • Europe:

Market Research on European communication activities on Environmental Technologies/ Eco-innovation. Report available here

"Eco-industry, its size, employment, perspectives and barriers to growth in an enlarged EU"  European Commission report available here (November 2006).


Briding the Valley of Death: public support for commercialisation of eco-innovation

The report recommends the Commission and Member States to use greater demand-side innovation policy to tackle constraints on eco-innovation. It analyses the experience of existing innovation procurement policies.The report also analyses the areas of innovation where this would be successful and identifies the practical needs of the policy.

Final report (pdf ~3,8 MB)   Policy brief (pdf ~18 KB)

 
Joint Research Center - IMPRO-Car project. Report here


Bio Energy's role in the EU energy market - A view of developments until 2020, April 2004. BTG biomass technology group BV, The Netherlands, on behalf of European Commission.

Report availble here

SMEs and the environment in the EU. Report here

  • International

WATER AND WASTEWATER REUSE - An Environmentally Sound Approach for Sustainable Urban Water Management, 2005, UNEP