This European Commission report explains the potential and functioning of green bond markets. It identifies bottlenecks and measures to overcome them, so green bonds can fulfil their huge potential. Eunomia completed section 3 of this report, the Analysis of the Opportunity for Developing Common EU Standards (page 57). The project [...]
This report commissioned by The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) forms part of draft guidance which seeks to improve air quality across England. Eunomia worked with the University of the West of England (UWE) on this economic analysis, researching the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of measures local authorities have available [...]
This report analyses the prospects for Advanced Conversion Technologies (ACTs), such as gasification and pyrolysis as treatments for residual waste, finding several reasons to think that investors may be attracted to ACTs as the market continues to develop. Despite recent stories highlighting problems with ACT projects, Eunomia’s analysis suggests investors [...]
This European Commission report presents the findings of the ‘Municipal Waste Compliance-Promotion Exercise 2014-2015’ project, which forms part of a broader strategy aiming to improve the compliance and implementation of EU waste legislation and support member states in achieving compliance. The report includes road maps delivered by Eunomia Research & Consulting Ltd [...]
This presentation was delivered at the Fire Prevention and Control in the Waste and Recycling Industry conference in the QEII centre, London on Wednesday 9th November by Specialist Technical Advisor Emma How and Junior Consultant Sophie Crosswell. Eunomia recently completed fire prevention plans for councils after the Environment Agency issued stricter regulations [...]
Realising the Wider Benefits of Sustainable Drainage (SuDS) is a poster that was presented by George Cole as part of the Research and Innovation Showcase at the Building Prosperous Cities event in London on 27th September 2016. Commissioned by UK Water Industry Research Ltd (UKWIR) Eunomia completed a report that: Identified and [...]
This report highlights the potential for a measures-based approach to be more effective at tackling marine plastic litter than setting targets. Marine plastics are an emerging issue facing policy makers. However, the information we currently have on the impacts of marine plastics is limited. This makes it challenging to identify [...]
This report, launched at the RWM exhibition on Tuesday 13th September, was commissioned by Suez and shows that more than £9 billion could be added to the UK economy by integrating circular economy principles into the country’s emerging industrial strategy. It is the first comprehensive assessment of the long-term direction [...]
This report commissioned by WRAP examines the carbon impacts of different recycling services used by local authorities in Wales, and compares the performance of kerbside sort, co-mingled and two stream systems. This report also considers the climate change benefits of recycling activities in 2014-2015 and compares this to the benefits that [...]
The 4th edition of our Recycling Carbon Index shows that the CO2 emissions savings from local authorities’ waste and recycling services in 2014/15. Tthe leading carbon savers are Cheshire West and Chester Council, whose high recycling rate and source separated collection system (which minimises the need for energy-intensive sorting of [...]
