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These checklists provide a tool to efficiently assess the potential risk of contamination by water pollutants in flood risk areas. They also include guidelines for initial investigations at contaminated sites to generate the data needed to decide on the next steps.

Accidents at refineries pose a particular risk for water bodies and groundwater. Hence, efficient safety management is essential. The guidelines for refineries consist of two parts. Part 1 contains recommendations on general safety management issues as well as checklists for assessing relevant measures.

Accidents at refineries pose a particular risk for water bodies and groundwater. Hence, efficient safety management is essential. The guidelines for refineries consist of two parts. Part 1 contains recommendations on general safety management issues as well as checklists for assessing relevant measures.

These checklists offer chemical producers a practicable basis for early identification and management of environmental risks. They include a number of sub-checklists, depending on type of company and installation, including suggestions for improvements, as well as forms for annual safety checks which the companies themselves can carry out.

Industrial accidents that affect international water bodies can put the water supplies and ecosystems of many countries at risk. Hence, joint, cross-border contingency planning is essential. These checklists offer a systematic and harmonised approach to identifying and assessing the risk of transboundary water pollution.

For the evaluation of effects of hormone-active substances to fish, several test guidelines have been validated by the OECD which are included in the Conceptual Framework for Testing and Assessment of Endocrine Disruptors (OECD, 2010).

An ambitious resource policy supports the development of an integrated, social and competitive Europe. Even though a global coordination for climate protection is economically, environmentally and socially necessary in the long term, the EU can provide a significant contribution to such a development singlehandedly. Doing so would even be of great economic advantage!

This report analyses the impacts of the EU ETS on the competitiveness of various types of aircraft operators by means of micro-economic analysis and by extensive short-term and long-term modelling. Because of political negotiation processes on the geographical scope of the EU ETS we analyse the impacts for two scenarios: 1.

The workshop “Decarbonisation – 100% Renewable Energy and more”, was held on 9 November 2015 in Berlin, hosted by the German Environment Agency and organised by Ecologic Institute.

The study explores policy options to map and integrate greenhouse gas (GHG) sensitive interventions in peatlands and forests in the emerging climate change architecture both under the UNFCCC and at the EU level.

Nearly all waste water treatment techniques lead to the formation of sewage sludge. This sludge needs to be safely treated on-site or forwarded to disposal with different options of secondary use. This guide presents sewage sludge treatment and recycling options – beginning from the stabilisation of the sludge up to the wider spectrum of options for its utilisation.

Operators of waste water treatment plants have to make decisions on the economical and environmentally safe management of the generated sewage sludge.