EU's Resource Productivity on the increase
Statistics in focus. Environment and energy 22/2012.
A resource efficient Europe is one flagship of the Europe 2020 strategy aiming at a shift towards a resource efficient, low carbon economy to achieve sustainable growth. The leading indicator assigned to this policy initiative is termed "Resource Productivity". It is the ratio of the volume of gross domestic product (GDP) over domestic material consumption (DMC) and is regularly produced and published by Eurostat. [+]