Circular Economy

Change in net income of direct and indirect beneficiaries as a result of the EU-funded intervention between two points in time (i.e., two distinct years). For a firm, net income is defined as gross sales minus cost of sales, including cost of goods sold. For an individual, net income includes total wages/salaries or profit from self-employment.

The concept of earnings, as applied in wages statistics, relates to gross remuneration. Earnings exclude employers’ contributions in respect of their employees paid to social security and pension schemes and also the benefits received by employees under these schemes. Earnings also exclude severance and termination pay. Data are disaggregated by economic activity according to the latest version of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) available for that year. For more detail, please see: https://ilostat.ilo.org/topics/wages/

Measures the number of people employed - as share of the total employment in a country's economy - in the sector(s) targeted by the EU-funded intervention (please report using the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities - ISIC). Employed persons are persons of working age who, during the reference period, were in the following categories: a) paid employment (whether at work or with a job but not at work); or b) self-employment (whether at work or with an enterprise but not at work).

Share, in %, of a country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) accounted for by a specific sector or sub-sector of the economy for a given accounting year. As Gross domestic product (GDP) represents the sum of value added by all its producers, this indicator is also referred to as value added by sector (% of GDP)

Measures the amount of waste (in kg, hazardous and non-hazardous, but excluding radioactive waste) generated and treated per MSME per year, disaggregated by type of waste, treatment type and sector (International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities - ISIC). This includes waste from waste treatment. Data from this indicator can provide indication of end-of-pipe sustainability of human production activities. Data is not available for developing countries - baseline and endline surveys have to be conducted and budgeted by the EU-funded intervention. For more information on methodology on OECD countries, please see: https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=MUNW

Measures the amount of waste (in kg, hazardous and non-hazardous, but excluding radioactive waste) generated per capita per year, disaggregated by type of waste and treatment type. This includes waste from waste treatment. Data from this indicator can provide indication of end-of-pipe sustainability of human production activities. Data is not available for developing countries - baseline and endline surveys have to be conducted and budgeted by the EU-funded intervention. For more information on methodology on OECD countries, please see: https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=MUNW

SDG Indicator 9.4.1. Tier I. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit value added is an indicator computed as ratio between CO2 emissions from fuel combustion and the value added of associated economic activities. The indicator can be computed for the whole economy (total CO2 emissions/GDP) or for specific sectors, notably the manufacturing sector (CO2 emissions from manufacturing industries per manufacturing value added - MVA). CO2 emissions per unit of GDP are expressed in kilogrammes of CO2 per USD constant 2017 PPP GDP. CO2 emissions from manufacturing industries per unit of MVA are measured in kilogrammes of CO2 equivalent per unit of MVA in constant 2015 USD. Carbon emission per unit of value added is a universal indicator for measuring the impact of industrial production on environment. It captures the intensity of energy use, energy efficiency of production technology and most importantly use of fossil fuels. According to the UNIDO definition used for SDG indicator 9.4.1., carbon emission is estimated from the data on energy consumption. For more detail, please see : https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/?Text=&Goal=9&Target=9.4

SDG Indicator 9.4.1. Tier I. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit value added is an indicator computed as ratio between CO2 emissions from fuel combustion and the value added of associated economic activities. The indicator can be computed for the whole economy (total CO2 emissions/GDP) or for specific sectors, notably the manufacturing sector (CO2 emissions from manufacturing industries per manufacturing value added - MVA). CO2 emissions per unit of GDP are expressed in kilogrammes of CO2 per USD constant 2017 PPP GDP. CO2 emissions from manufacturing industries per unit of MVA are measured in kilogrammes of CO2 equivalent per unit of MVA in constant 2015 USD. Carbon emission per unit of value added is a universal indicator for measuring the impact of industrial production on environment. It captures the intensity of energy use, energy efficiency of production technology and most importantly use of fossil fuels. According to the UNIDO definition used for SDG indicator 9.4.1., carbon emission is estimated from the data on energy consumption. For more detail, please see : https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/?Text=&Goal=9&Target=9.4

Provides a measure of the efficiency a country's economy (as a whole or by sector) has in using freshwater for production activities (thus indirectly measures the amount of water use reduced or avoided per unit of value added). It is measured as GDP (usually in constant US$ prices) divided by annual total freshwater withdrawal (measured in cubic meters per year).

 
SDG indicator 8.4.1 and 12.2.1. has three units of measure, including tonnes, tonnes per capita and per unit of GDP (kilograms per constant United States dollar). Please note that as of March 2021, this is a Tier II indicator with methodology agreed only at global level and not yet for country-level monitoring (though UNEP data is available also for some countries). Material Footprint (MF) is the attribution of global material extraction to domestic final demand of a country. The total material footprint is the sum of the material footprint for biomass, fossil fuels, metal ores and non-metal ores. For more detail, please see: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-08-04-01.pdf.

 
SDG indicator 8.4.1 and 12.2.1. has three units of measure, including tonnes, tonnes per capita and per unit of GDP (kilograms per constant United States dollar). Please note that as of March 2021, this is a Tier II indicator with methodology agreed only at global level and not yet for country-level monitoring (though UNEP data is available also for some countries). Material Footprint (MF) is the attribution of global material extraction to domestic final demand of a country. The total material footprint is the sum of the material footprint for biomass, fossil fuels, metal ores and non-metal ores. For more detail, please see: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-08-04-01.pdf.

SDG indicator 8.4.1 and 12.2.1. has three units of measure, including tonnes, tonnes per capita and per unit of GDP (kilograms per constant United States dollar). Please note that as of March 2021, this is a Tier II indicator with methodology agreed only at global level and not yet for country-level monitoring (though UNEP data is available also for some countries). Material Footprint (MF) is the attribution of global material extraction to domestic final demand of a country. The total material footprint is the sum of the material footprint for biomass, fossil fuels, metal ores and non-metal ores. For more detail, please see: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-08-04-01.pdf.

Measures the total amount of sales for recycled/re-used products divided by total sales of all products sold by an entity. Data can relate to either specific firms targeted in the intervention or to the market share of recycled/re-used products in a targeted value chain.

The total volume of the traded waste materials (import plus export) indicator (tonnes/month) shows the market activity and covers intra- and extra trade in the EU. This indicator is shown as monthly data (tonnes/month) for a month. Data for this indicator will require calculations to be done periodically by the EU-funded intervention. Volume is extracted from international trade in goods statistics (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Internatio…) as intra-EU and extra-EU trade for both, import and export. International trade in goods statistics are published monthly, with a delay of approximately 3.5 months. Please check data availability for your country of interest in order to ensure that the relevant calculation can be made.

Amount of municipal solid waste (MSW) recycled and composted divided by the total amount of MSW recycled, composted, landfilled, or incinerated.” Material that is reused, avoided, or converted to energy is not included in the recycling rate.

Measures the proportion of women in management roles in circular economy enterprises.

Compared to the pre-intervention baseline, this indicator measures direct changes in the energy, water and material resources' costs incurred by Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) as a result of project / programme interventions. This indicator provides an indication of the extent to which implementing Sustainable Consumption and Production practices contributes to sustainable economic development.

Measures the number of MSMEs receiving direct assistance from an EU programme or project that have increased the volume of their turnover.

This is a modified EURF indicator - it has been narrowed down to measure the number of Circular Economy jobs only that have been sustained/created by the EU. For more detail about the Circular Economy, please see: https://ec.europa.eu/environment/strategy/circular-economy-action-plan_…

Measures the total amount of sales for sharing economy solutions to a certain product divided by total market sales of the same product. Data can relate to either specific firms targeted in the EU-funded intervention or to the market share of sharing economy solutions in a targeted value chain.
The term ‘sharing economy’ is often interchangeably used with the term collaborative economy, a rapidly evolving phenomenon. According to COM(2016) 356 final - A European agenda for the collaborative economy: the term "collaborative economy" refers to business models where activities are facilitated by collaborative platforms that create an open marketplace for the temporary usage of goods or services often provided by private individuals. The collaborative economy involves three categories of actors: (i) service providers who share assets, resources, time and/or skills — these can be private individuals offering services on an occasional basis (‘peers’) or service providers acting in their professional capacity ("professional services providers"); (ii) users of these; and (iii) intermediaries that connect — via an online platform — providers with users and that facilitate transactions between them (‘collaborative platforms’). Collaborative economy transactions generally do not involve a change of ownership and can be carried out for profit or not-for-profit.