… Indicator: Environmentally friendly consumption Weighted market shares by sales of products with official eco-labels Source: German Environment Agency Figure as PDF … consumers indirectly influence the emissions and social sustainability of the production. The indicator records the market shares of products with eco-labelling …

… contrast, CO₂ emissions, energy consumption and raw material use resulting from the production of consumer goods are labelled indirect. These can either occur in … 26.6 % of energy consumed by private households is generated abroad during the production of goods that are imported. There is a similar trend in CO₂ emissions. …

… use of raw materials. Only about half of the objective to double resource productivity between 1994 and 2020 has been achieved. A major part of these gains in efficiency are due to the transfer of resource-intensive production abroad. In effect, every tonne of imported goods carries an average … of waste in the first place. Devices must be designed in such a way as to be durable or at least easy to repair. Associated content Publications Data on the …

… balance also shows: almost half of the nitrogen used does not end up in the products, so nitrogen efficiency is still relatively low (BMEL 2024, Statistischer … feed, seed and seedlings, atmospheric inputs) and the output (animal and plant products) of the national farm-gate balance. The data are calculated by the … balance also shows: almost half of the nitrogen used does not end up in the products, so nitrogen efficiency is still relatively low (BMEL 2024, Statistischer …