Domestic Footprint of EU and EU Member States, by elementary flow, year and impact category

Esther Sanyé Mengual; Piotr Wierzgala; Davide Tosches; Serenella Sala

Description

This dataset displays the data of the Domestic Footprint indicator. The dataset includes information on country, year, impact category, elementary flow, characterised result, and unit. The impacts categories are those of the Environmental Footprint method (16 impact categories + single weighted score). Units corresponds to those visualized in the consumption footprint platform (e.g. billions CTUe, instead of CTUe).

Contact

Email: JRC-ConsumptionFootPrint (at) ec.europa.eu

Contributors

Esther Sanyé Mengual

0000-0002-2349-9807
Piotr Wierzgala
Davide Tosches
Serenella Sala

0000-0003-1919-9948

How to cite

Sanyé Mengual, Esther; Wierzgala, Piotr; Tosches, Davide; Sala, Serenella (2023): Domestic Footprint of EU and EU Member States, by elementary flow, year and impact category. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/16563951-bb12-45f0-8b8f-596e1017a078

Keywords

domestic footprint industrial ecology life cycle assessment SDG12

Data access

Domestic Footprint of EU and EU member states by elementary flow, year, and impact category

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Publications

Publication 2023

Consumption Footprint and Domestic Footprint: Assessing the environmental impacts of EU consumption and production

Sanye Mengual, E. and Sala, S., Consumption Footprint and Domestic Footprint: Assessing the environmental impacts of EU consumption and production, EUR 31390 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2023, ISBN 978-92-76-61754-9 (online),978-92-76-99781-8 (print), doi:10.2760/218540 (online),10.2760/3878 (print), JRC128571.

Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

DOI

10.2760/218540

Publication page

Abstract

This report provides an overview of the LCA applied to assessing environmental impacts of production and consumption at the EU and Member State levels as a basis to support several policies and the assessment of their impacts and benefits. The content builds from the results of the “Application of the consumption footprint indicators in policy analysis” (AA Consumption Footprint) project , aimed at further develop and apply the set of indicators defined and calculated in the context of the LC-IND2 project , namely the Consumption Footprint and the Domestic Footprint. The EU-27 can be considered a “net importer of environmental impacts”. This implies that the Consumption Footprint (overall impacts related to consumption of good and services) is higher than the Domestic Footprint (impacts generated in the EU-27 area). Between 2010 and 2018, domestic environmental impacts in EU-27 have decreased (-12% as weighted score) while GDP has increased of 23%, showing an absolute decoupling. Yet accounting for trade, a more limited relative decoupling is observed for the Consumption Footprint (increase by 5%, relative decoupling). Moreover, a number of impacts cannot be fully captured so far, indicating the need of including in future more aspects to depict comprehensively the decoupling. Results show that the environmental impact of the consumption of an average EU citizen is outside the safe operating space for humanity for several impacts, namely climate change, particulate matter, freshwater ecotoxicity.

Geographic areas

European Union

Temporal coverage

From date	To date
2000-01-01	2021-12-31

Additional information

Published by: European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date: 2023-07-26
Modified date: 2023-07-26
Issued date: 2023-04-06
Landing page: https://eplca.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ConsumptionFootprintPlatform.html
Data theme(s): Environment
Update frequency: annual
Identifier: http://data.europa.eu/89h/16563951-bb12-45f0-8b8f-596e1017a078
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