The Institute for Applied Environmental Economics - TME - is specialised in the economics and management of environmental and natural resources issues and focusses on deeper insights into a cost effective sustainable development.

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The new model CO2L is a sophisticated, yet easy to use tool to calculate a carbon footprint (CF) of your company, production processes and / or products. It includes a large database of emission factors of all kinds of (green) energy, substances and raw materials in the production chain. In addition, (parts of) the footprint of supply can be estimated on the basis of amounts purchased. The model is available in English as well as in Dutch.

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In this study, time series of environmental expenditures have been analysed for 6 industrial case studies: mining and quarrying, manufacturing, refineries, chemical industries, the base metal sector and the power sector. The time series cover the period 1995 – 2012. Two types of environmental expenditures are studied: investments and operational expenditures. In total, 23 member states of the EU, submit data on environmental expenditures. For environmental investments the data cover most of the years and member states, for operational environmental expenditures, the coverage of data is less abundant.

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The use of differential VAT rates to promote changes in consumption and innovation.

This study deals with the likely impacts of differential VAT rates for specific products with recognised environmental benefits.

Waterpricing policy is - according the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) - one of the options to improve water quality. The idea is that, by giving the correct incentives, sustainable water use can be stimulated by means of the 'the polluter pays' principle.

Assessment of the current environmental performance of 20 large retailers in Europe with regards to green products, green supply chains, retailers’ own environmental performance, and informing consumers.

This report addresses the question to what extent the ex-ante and ex-post estimates of costs to business resulting from EU environmental legislation differ, how these differences can be explained, and what the implications are for cost assessments.

A document that serves as background material to a training course on “the economic value of natural and environmental resources”. This training course is developed under the project “Training of the Trainers”, a project developed by MDF for CENN (Caucasus Environmental NGO Network). It contains background information on both theory and practice of nature valuation and the estimation of benefits.

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CO2L: Carbon Footprint model

The new model CO2L is fully focussed on CO2 (Carbon Footprint). The CF-model includes a large database of emission factors of all kinds of (green) energy, substances and raw materials in the production chain. In addition, (parts of) the footprint of supply can be estimated on the basis of amounts purchased. The model is available in English as well as in Dutch.

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Current and recently finished projects commissioned by Dutch public authorities, organisations and companies.

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Current and recently finished projects commissioned by the European Union and other international organisations.

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