POLFREE

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 308371.

Why have resources been used inefficiently?

This WP analyses the question of why resources have been used inefficiently.

It develops an analytical framework to understand the drivers and barriers to resource efficiency, provides an overview of EU and member state law having an impact on resource use, examines business and behavioural barriers to resource efficiency and creates resource-reduction cost curves for material consumption.

The diagram below shows the links and dependencies between the different tasks of this WP. 

Work package 1

This work package includes the following deliverables:

  • Report about analytical framework of drivers and barriers to resource  efficiency
  • Report about EU policy experiences with policies relevant to resource efficiency
  • Report about drivers for resource decoupling and the role of national policies
  • Report about resource reduction cost curves for material consumption in different Member States and sectors
  • Report about business barriers to the uptake of resource efficiency measures
  • Report about behavioural barriers to the uptake of resource efficiency measures
  • Synthesis report and conclusions about barriers and drivers to resource efficiency