Consumption Footprint and Domestic Footprint Outlook Report 2025
Projections towards 2030 in the frame of the Zero Pollution Action Plan
The European Commission - Joint Research Centre has developed and kept updating since 2016 a modelling framework that includes the Consumption Footprint (CF) and the Domestic Footprint (CF) models, which have become established as a means for monitoring the progress of the EU’s environmental performance. The models are based on Life Cycle Assessment, and use the Environmental Footprint (EF) impact assessment method to produce a set of 16 indicators (also available as a single weighted score) to assess the environmental impacts of EU production and consumption, and compare to the planetary boundaries.
This report describes how these models can be applied to generate an outlook in the framework of the Zero Pollution Action Plan (ZPAP) for 2030. This is performed via: (i) calculating the ZPAP official targets in the context of the models, (ii) integrating selected relevant and illustrative green transition measures from the targets and ambitions of the European Green Deal (iii) comparing three progressively more ambitious scenarios simulating the achievement of these measures.
The results indicate that the gap is widening between the environmental impacts occurring within the EU’s borders and those linked to consumption via supply chains, that is, those that result from imports into the EU. The selected green transition measures should make progress in terms of reducing environmental impact within the EU. However, via integrating additional ambitions the EU could accelerate actions for almost all EF environmental indicators, and reduce the EU’s environmental impact of consumption even below the ZPAP 2030 targets.
PASQUALINO Roberto;
VALENZANO Annarita;
CHIORRINI Andrea;
WIERZGALA Piotr;
FRANKOWSKA Angelina;
SANYE MENGUAL Esther;
BENNETT Michael John;
LISTORTI Giulia;
SALA Serenella;
2025-03-04
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC139655
978-92-68-23896-7 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 40196,
OP KJ-01-25-037-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC139655,
10.2760/6552881 (online),
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