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The checklist presented here has the objective to support the identification of improvement potential regarding the environmental impact in the textiles industry. It is based on a comprehensive technical analysis of the European textile industry and refers to currently available technologies.

By 2020, Germany aims to reduce its primary energy consumption by 20 per cent on 2008, and by 50 per cent by 2050. It won’t be possible to achieve this goal without a significant increase in energy efficiency. The ISO 50001 standard, which was published in June 2011 and replaces the European EN 16001 standard, defines the first international standards for an energy management system.

Scaling in the context of REACH implies the application of simple mathematics to examine whether chemicals are used in a safe way, even when certain conditions of use deviate from the exposure scenario. Scaling offers downstream users the opportunity in selected cases to demonstrate at little cost that their specific conditions of use comply with an exposure scenario.

The focus of this report is the determination, fate and behaviour of nanoscaled Titanium dioxide (TiO2) in the environment. Nanoscaled TiO2 is an industrial product being used in various applications such as sunscreens, coatings and paints which make a release into the environment likely.

This report explores the determinants of short run price movements in the carbon market and their interaction with energy markets, in particular with the electricity market. Focusing on Phase 2 of the EU ETS we conduct econometric time series analysis based on continental EU and UK market data.

As a Party to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC), since 1994 Germany has been obliged to prepare, publish and regularly update national emission inventories of greenhouse gases. In February 2005, the Kyoto Protocol entered into force.

Today it is well known how to produce textiles and shoes in a manner that is as environmentally friendly as possible. This is also clear to consumers. They are becoming less and less willing to bear environmental risks – much in the way that they have already demonstrated with regard to inadequate social standards.

Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Ugra (KMAO-Ugra) started to play a main role in the Russian economy in the mid-1990s when key oil and gas extraction was located in this region. Hence, a migration boom started, incomes increased and the infrastructure improved, especially in the capital of KMAO-Ugra – Khanty-Mansiysk.

The European Regulation 1907/2006 on the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH) The REACH regulation interfaces with waste legislation at various points, but forms a freestanding, demarcated legislative domain: came into effect on 1 June 2007.

This brochure gives you an insight into the sustainability activities taking place at local community level in Germany, and shows how these activities in specific areas and selected spheres of action can lead to sustainable development that is worthy of imitation. The brochure is based on a survey conducted across Germany in 2011.

We investigated the possibility of monitoring penguin colonies across the Antarctic using remote sensing by satellites. We selected six test sites with a number of penguin colonies, focussing on the species Pygoscelis adeliae (Adélie penguin) and Pygoscelis papua (gentoo penguin).

With COM(2011) 856 final from 09.12.2011 the EU Commission launched a proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the sound level of motor vehicles. This proposal is related to motor vehicles having at least four wheels.