The United Nations' sustainable development goal 12 “Responsible consumption and production” envisions to use resources efficiently, reduce global food and other waste, dispose safely toxic waste and pollutants. In a European Union context, the focus is on progress made in decoupling environmental impacts from economic growth, in decreasing its energy consumption and in tackling waste generation and management.

How is your country doing in this regard?

Find out with our easy and user-friendly time graph below. Compare your country’s progress over time and with other Member States. Choose from a range of indicators such as energy or resource productivity, share of renewables, waste generation, and more.

If you want to know more about the sustainable development goals visit our website section dedicated to this topic .

In this context, you might also be interested in our website section on ‘ Circular economy ’ which contains a scoreboard as well as a visualisation tool to help you explore more information.

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