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Environmental Performance Assessment of European Countries

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The European Union (EU) has been promoting an integrated approach to climate protection and energy policy, through a set of key objectives for 2020, 2030 and 2050, linking Europe’s green agenda with its need for energy security and competitiveness. This paper aims to evaluate the environmental efficiency of European Countries from 2010 to 2015 towards 2020 targets, through a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model. The DEA model assesses the ability of each country in minimizing current resources while maximizing the gross domestic product (GDP) and minimizing undesirable outputs, such as GhG emissions. The DEA model is based on Directional Distance Function (DDF), imposing weak disposability for the undesirable output (UO). Results obtained show that globally, in the period under analysis, the EU has increased its environmental efficiency which is consistent with the analysis of the indicators of the 2020 climate and energy package.

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  1. Centre for Management and Industrial Engineering (CEGI/INESC TEC), Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics (CeDRI), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, 5300-253, Bragança, Portugal

    Clara B. Vaz

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    Ângela P. Ferreira

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    Maria João Alves

  2. Department of Mathematics/CeDRI-IPB and LIAAD-INESC TEC, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal

    João Paulo Almeida

  3. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management/INESC TEC, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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Vaz, C.B., Ferreira, Â.P. (2019). Environmental Performance Assessment of European Countries. In: Alves, M., Almeida, J., Oliveira, J., Pinto, A. (eds) Operational Research. IO 2018. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 278. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10731-4_15

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