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Envisioning the Future: The Added Value Of Public Participation in Sustainability Policy and Innovation
It has often been said that recognising the social context of sustainable development is key to developing targeted policy action. Yet inputs to sustainability science have mainly come from conservation science, environmental science, climate science, and economics. At the heart of this approach...
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Sustainable Development
The Commission describes sustainable development as “meeting the needs of present generations without jeopardizing the ability of futures generations to meet their own needs – in other words, a better quality of life for everyone, now and for generations to come.” ...
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Food waste – It’s Our Duty To Reduce It
Whether cooking at home or eating out, we generate a lot of food waste. The impact of food waste is not just financial. The production, processing, storage, and transportation of food that finally goes to waste also consumes valuable water and energy resources. Food and Agriculture Organization...
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The Future of the Glass Bottles – Refilling or Recycling
A few days ago, while sorting a pile of glass bottles at home for recycling and for returning, the following question arose in my mind: Why it is so complicated? Some of the bottles were reusable and supposed to be returned to the retailer in order to refund the container deposit. It’s not that...
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From a “Willkommenskultur” to an “Innovation culture”
In the last couple of months public discourse in the EU was dominated by the discussion of how to deal with the influx of people primarily from the Middle East to Europe. Looking at these processes from a perspective that puts Sustainable Innovation at the core of reaching goals like the ones...
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Sustainability and innovation in the Italian agro-food cluster
Sustainability is the result of innovation processes, and then the introduction of new products, services, processes and organizational models, able to modify the companies’ business models and improve their economic, social and environmental performances in the long-term. A team of...
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One step closer to closing the loop – the newly adopted EU Circular Economy Package
Waste prevention, ecodesign, re-use and similar measures could bring net savings of €600 billion, or 8% of annual turnover, for businesses in the EU, while reducing total annual greenhouse gas emissions by 2-4 %. In the sectors of re-use, re-manufacturing and repair, for example, the cost...
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Green Jobs - Women last?
The environmental regulatory framework at the European level has significant impact on employment and the labour market and there are high expectations regarding the job growth through the greening economy. Today more than 20 million jobs in the European Union can be considered as...
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CASI debates on sharing economy
CASI is about to publish the 9th EU Policy brief titled: Is Sharing economy a new disruptive service model provider and challenge for which Europe is unready for? As common the concept of sharing can be, the sharing economy context is not easy to define. The reason why this topic has been...
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Is Europe „Knowledge Future“ ready?
Is Europe „Knowledge Future“ ready? Just recently, the European Commission published a report compiled by an expert group on Foresight on Key Long-term Transformations of European systems: Research, Innovation and Higher Education (KT2050) under the title „The Knowledge...
