Statistics for the European Green Deal

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Main objective is to produce national estimates of material footprints (raw material consumption) and report raw material equivalents in the Eurostat Economy-wide Material Flow accounts questionnaire. Main activities: investigate national data sources from various statistical areas and develop methods and procedures to compile and report data on material footprints. Data will be compiled using the latest version of the EW-MFA questionnaire and the Eurostat country RME tool. The results will include new datasets in the area listed above, studying of methodologies, development of innovative techniques to produce data avoiding conventional surveys and their reporting burden (instead using administrative sources). Aim is also to get practical information on methodology, data collection and processing methods used for producing material footprints, in other words to develop more and better quality data on material footprints relying on the national data instead of using the estimates provided by Eurostat. CBS is planning to deliver data on years 2022 and 2023 (pilot data collection). Many relevant statistics are beyond the scope of the current mandatory variables in the European environmental accounts, such is the case with Material footprints. Thus, this project will provide new relevant data for policy makers.