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European Commission

Flash Eurobarometer 342

 

SMES, RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND GREEN MARKETS REPORT [26 March 2012]

http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/flash/fl_342_en.pdf

[full-text, 99 pages]

 

This report addresses three core themes: resource efficiency, green markets and green

jobs with a particular focus on SMEs1. Representatives of companies, both SMEs and

large companies as reference group, were interviewed across the EU, a number of other

European countries and the US.

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SURVEY DESCRIPTION .................................................................................. 3

MAIN FINDINGS ............................................................................................ 5

INTRODUCTION: ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE ENVIRONMENT ........................ 9

1. USING RESOURCES BETTER: WHO, HOW AND HOW MUCH .................... 16

1.1 Actions to promote resource efficiency: present and future ............... 16

1.1.1 What is being done now? .................................................................... 16

1.1.2 What will be done in two years’ time? ................................................... 20

1.1.3 Why SMEs are taking actions? ............................................................. 24

1.1.4 Why is this not being done? ................................................................ 27

1.2 Does it pay to be "clean and green"? .................................................. 30

1.3 Environmental management systems: a tool enabling companies

to improve their environmental performance ............................................. 36

1.4 Do policies help companies to become resource efficient? ................. 43

1.4.1 General overview ............................................................................... 43

1.4.2 Does public support work? .................................................................. 46

1.4.3 Supporting energy efficiency: where the focus should lie ......................... 49

1.5 Using public procurement to stimulate resource efficiency in SMEs ... 52

2. GREEN PRODUCTS AND SERVICES: REDUCING ENVIRONMENTAL RISK AND

MINIMISING POLLUTION AND USE OF RESOURCES ..................................... 56

2.1 Green markets: Profiles of the SMEs offering green

products or services ................................................................................... 56

2.1.1 Mapping Europe's green SMEs ............................................................. 56

2.1.2 Where do SMEs currently sell green products and services? ..................... 70

2.2 What makes SMEs offer green products or services? .......................... 74

2.3 Can policy help SMEs to offer green products or services? ................. 81

2.4 The number of jobs depending on green goods and services

today and in 2014 ....................................................................................... 93

ANNEXES

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

QUESTIONNAIRE

TABLES

 

 

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