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Waste | Resources

Lessons Learned from the MPPI and Benefits of Future Private-Public Partnerships in the Framework of the Basel Convention

This report is about lessons learned from the Mobile Phone Partnership Initiative (MPPI), and provides a basis for any future public-private partnerships in the framework of inter-national agreements, such as the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal. It is intended to provide some guidance for governmental authorities and international o...read more

Chemicals

Survey of the different chicken housing systems and accumulating form of manure/slurry for the derivative of a standardised form of veterinary drug decomposition in expositions scenarios

The legal foundations for chicken husbandry in the European Union are Directive 1999/74/EC (laying down minimum standards for the protection of laying hens), Directive 98/58/EC (the protection of animals kept for farming purposes) and Directive 2007/43/EC (laying down minimum rules for the protection of chickens kept for meat production). According to Directive 1999/74/EC, the use of unenriched ca...read more

Economy | Consumption

Measuring Welfare in Germany

A suggestion for a new welfare index

The social welfare debate has recently been rekindled both at the national and at the international level. There are signs that the costs of environmental change and of the maintenance of social cohesion are not adequately explicated by economic quantities like gross domestic product (GDP).read more

Air

Workshop to Promote the Ratification of the Protocol on Heavy Metals across the entire UN ECE Region; Yerevan, Armenia 2008

translation of the Russian brochureread more

Economy | Consumption

Environmentally harmful subsidies in Germany

For the German public, environmental protection is the most important problem in Germany after the labour market. People attach great importance to the quality of environmental assets - such as climate, water, soil or air. This is reflected by public and private expenditure on protection of the environment: in 2003 the state and industry spent a combined total of €34.1 billion on water conservatio...read more

Water

Water Protection in Cooperation with Agriculture

Germany's farmers are vital suppliers of numerous raw materials for the food and animal feeds sector, and hence a significant branch of industry. At the same time, the agricultural sector is the largest land user and, unlike other industries, most production takes place in an "open system". This poses a risk to the environment, since only part of the substances used, especially fertilisers and pes...read more

Climate | Energy, Waste | Resources, Water

Recycling stops greenhouse gases

The contribution of the recycling and water management industry to climate protection

A great deal has changed for the German waste management industry in recent decades. Purely waste disposal firms have become highly specialised suppliers and experts for efficient recycling and energy generation. In 1990, the German municipal waste management sector still burdened the climate with nearly 38m tonnes of climate-damaging gas.read more