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doi
10.2760/87401
doi
10.2760/931669
isbn
9789279766824
isbn
9789279766831
jrc_number
JRC109174
other_identifiers
EUR 28886 EN
other_identifiers
OP KJ-NA-28886-EN-C
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OP KJ-NA-28886-EN-N
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Environment and climate change

Consumer's behaviour in assessing environmental impact of consumption - State of the art and challenges for modelling consumer's behaviour in life cycle-based indicators

Flag for EU Joint Research Centre on January 26th 2018
NITA Viorel, CASTELLANI Valentina and SALA Serenella
The European Commission (EC) has been developing an assessment framework to monitor the evolution of environmental impact associated to the European Union (EU) consumption. The assessment framework should help to support a wide array of policies, such as those related to resource efficiency, eco-innovation and circular economy. The environmental impact of EU consumption is assessed adopting two sets of life cycle-based indicators: the Consumption footprint and the Consumer footprint, which have a complementary role in assessing those impacts.The EU Consumer Footprint is the measurement of the environmental impacts based on the life cycle assessment (LCA) of products (or services) purchased and used in one year by an EU citizen. This is based on the results of LCAs of representative consumed products (and services, where relevant). Within the framework of this project, a dedicated area of research focused on the “Product use phase and consumption scenarios”, aiming at the examination of consumer behavio...

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Related SDGs

SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production ...
SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Target 12.2

Achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources

Target 12.8

Ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature

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