Context and scope:

• The Europe 2020 Flagship Initiative "Resource efficient Europe" aspires "to support the shift towards a resource efficient and low-carbon economy that is efficient in the way it uses all resources?. It requires that the EC works to establish a vision for change by 2050.
• A vision must be owned by the organisation that will be promoting it, and this requires it be developed and debated internally. This study, carried out by Cambridge Econometrics, Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI) and Wuppertal Institute (WI), assists DG Environment as it develops the vision and does not provide the final vision itself. The scope of resource efficiency is vast; the scope of this project is limited to the resource domains of material use, energy/climate, land use/biodiversity and water.
• Specifically, the study:

- Suggests key elements for the overall vision, including targets
- Suggests broad policy initiatives through which the elements of the vision could be achieved
- Recommends modelling approaches through which potential policies aimed at achieving the vision can be assessed and progress can be measured.

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