Eco-innovation in EU member states

This graph shows the relative change in greenhouse gas emissions (GWP) against the relative change in economic output. The bubbles represent EU memberstates, the size of the bubbles represents the GDP of the country. When a member state is in the upper right quadrant this means that its greenhouse gas emissions have decreased relative to the year before while its GDP grew.The macro-scale result of eco-innovation can be defined as the GDP growth combined with a decrease in environmental impact. This means that if a country is in the upper right quadrant it shows signs of eco-innovation. In this graph it is clear that the 'old' member states hoover around the origin while the new member states show large movemenets when just after they entered the EU. Later on they converge with the 'old' member states. During the time of adjustement to the EU regulations new member states show signs of eco-innovation. With respect to greenhouse gas emssions one can conclude that the 'old' member states show little signs of eco-innovation while the new member states go through a phase of eco-innovation while adjusting to EU-policies but once they are adjusted these signs disappaear.
This graph is a result of the ECODRIVE project (http://www.eco-innovation.eu/wiki). ECODRIVE is a Specific Targeted Research or Innovation Project within the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission (Priority FP6-2005-SSP-5-A).

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Science & Technology

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• eco-innovation
• ECODRIVE