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Identification and Assessment of Training Needs, Methods and Activities for the Wider Use of Environmental Technologies in Key Sectors

ETTAR Policy Brief No. 2

Martinez, Grit and Alexander Neubauer 2008: Identification and assessment of training needs, methods and activities for the wider use of environmental technologies in key sectors, Brussels.Read more

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Recommendations for Greening Freight Transport

Policy Brief 1

This Policy Brief is intended to reflect the conclusions from the ETTAR (Environmental Technologies, Training and Awareness-Raising) project so far and develop policy recommendations based on these conclusions. The ETTAR project is a project under the 6th Framework Programme (financed by the European Commission) and deals with the promotion of environmental technologies in the freight transport sector. The Policy Brief has been agreed within the ETTAR team and is directed at stakeholders in the freight transport sector, such as policy makers, logistics associations and transport NGOs. The report is available for download.Read more

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Policy Brief

Bioeconomy

European Union Policy on Bioenergy

The European Community has undertaken an ambitious program aimed at improving the sustainability of energy use across Europe. At the heart of this program are efforts by the European Union and its Member States to encourage the use of renewable sources of energy. Bioenergy has become a focal point in efforts to increase the use of renewable energy. This policy brief summarises the development and status quo of the EU bioenergy policy framework and links it to the current debate on sustainability of bioenergy.Read more

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Foreign Policy

Nach dem Weltgipfel für Nachhaltige Entwicklung

Der doppelte Nexus zwischen Nachhaltiger Entwicklung, Globalisierung und Sicherheit

Nature protection policy and environmental measures within development and international cooperation play a central role in conflicts over resources. Since the mid-nineties the topic of globalization was making all the headlines. Since September 2001, global security has dominated the international agenda. Against the background of this development a special meaning is given to global environmental governance as well as the development of the concept of sustainability. A paper by Sascha Müller-Kraenner and Uwe Brendle.Read more

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Democracy

Actively Shaping European Environmental Policy

Briefing Paper on the Draft Constitution for Europe

Beyer, Peter; Clare Coffey; Anneke Klasing 2003: Actively Shaping European Environmental Policy — Briefing Paper on the Draft Constitution for Europe. Ecologic Institute, IEEP, Berlin/Brussels.Read more

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Policy Brief

Resource Conservation + Circular Economy

Incineration as Recovery and Disposal of Waste

Analysis and interpretation of the judgements of the European Court of Justice C-458/00 and C-228/00

Hansen, Wenke and Peter Beyer 2003: Incineration as recovery and disposal of waste: Analysis and interpretation of the judgements of the European Court of Justice C-458/00 and C-228/00. IEEP/Ecologic.Read more

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Policy Brief

Global Environment

Institutional Interaction - Lessons for Policy-Making

How to Prevent Conflicts and Enhance Synergies between International and EU Environmental Institutions

Ecologic; Fridtjof Nansen Institute; Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development; Institute for European Environmental Policy 2003: Institutional Interaction - How to Prevent Conflicts and Enhance Synergies between International and EU Environmental Institutions. Lessons for Policy-Making.Read more

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Policy Brief

Climate

Breaking the Impasse

Forging an EU Leadership Initiative on Climate Change

Hermann E. Ott, Sebastian Oberthür (2001). Breaking the Impasse. Forging an EU Leadership Initiative on Climate Change. World Summit Papers of the Heinrich Böll Foundation No. 3.Read more

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Policy Brief

Sustainability

Transatlantic Program

International Environmental Policymaking and Transatlantic Co-operation

Setting the Agenda for the World Summit on Sustainable Development

Transatlantic co-operation between the US and EU Member States has an important role to play in the system of international environmental policymaking. Greater transatlantic leadership coupled with extensive consultation of developing countries would greatly enhance policymaking capacities in the system of international environmental governance.

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