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Making More from Less – Stepping Towards Green Growth in the EU

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Eurostat 2012: Making More From Less – Stepping Towards Green Growth in the EU. Video online: http://youtu.be/FMEqgSaS2p8

EU progress towards sustainable development goes side by side with fostering green growth. Here resource productivity has an important role to play. Yet its measurement could have some interpretation pitfalls and it is important to be aware of them.

This video is one out of four that were developed and produced within the project EU sustainable development indicators: video production, co-ordinated by the Ecologic Institute.

Script: Melanie Kemper, Georgia Cockerell
Production: Haymarket Media
Expert Advisors: Mariana Popova, Viktoria Bolla, Vincent Tronet, Markus Hametner
Length: 3:56 Min.

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English
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Georgia Cockerell
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European Commission, Eurostat (Eurostat), International
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Keywords
resource productivity, efficiency, material consumption, gross domestic product, GDP, green economy, green growth, decoupling, Rio+20
Europe, EU
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