Commission tables plan for a resource-efficient economy

The European Commission unveiled plans Tuesday (20 September) to decouple the EU's economic growth from natural resource consumption, suggesting that the bloc's 27 governments sign up to a myriad of short- and long-term environmental targets by the end of 2013.The Commission's Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe, adopted on 20 September, suggests introducing resource efficiency indicators and targets across the 27-nation bloc.Except for mandatory efficiency requirements on ...

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