Further action is required beyond active substance approval and product authorization of biocidal products to protect the environment. This action could be European legislation on the use-phase of certain biocides to shape their “proper use”. Whilst such piece of legislation is missing on EU level, countries have been implementing national measures. Within this document, we compiled examples from 13 different countries. The objective of this was (i) to provide examples for other Member States that would like to develop their national legislation further, and (ii) to provide exemplary legislation to the EU Commission to support drafting a harmonised European framework. Veröffentlicht in Scientific Opinion Paper.
This report analyses and critically reviews assumptions on natural carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and storage potentials with a view to the objectives of the EU Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry ( LULUCF ) and Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF) legislation agreed until February 2024. Therefore, EU impact assessment reports that were published over a period of eight years were analysed and compared with estimates in the scientific literature. It shows that potentials from the impact assessments are rather at the lower end of the range. While highest CDR potentials for 2050 in studies underlying the EU legislation assume -400 to -500 Mt CO 2 eq, literature studies often operate in the range of -500 to -600 Mt CO 2 eq, with one estimate reaching almost -800 Mt CO 2 eq. Veröffentlicht in Climate Change | 35/2024.
Das Projekt "Abfallmanagement und Gesundheitswesen in Sri Lanka" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Ökopol Institut für Ökologie und Politik GmbH durchgeführt. Background The project is based on the experience UNIDO/UNEP have gained through the first phase of the National Cleaner Production Centre (NCPC) programme, during which NCPCs were established in 20 countries. The present project definition mission shall define the specific requirements for the further establishment and organisation of the NCPC in Sri Lanka. The NCPC in Colombo has focussed on several topics and sectors, such as the food production and processing sector, wood industry, tourism as well as on the health sector but only for a short period of time. Because of the specific relevance for human health and the environment a more in-depth assessment of integrated measurements in the health care sector is envisaged. Such an approach can focus on: waste handling and disposal, operations management of health care institutions and Cleaner Production methodologies, involvement of the service and product suppliers of the health sector. As examples from other countries show considerable reductions concerning environmental impacts and costs this could also be the outcome of such an initiative. Outline and target In order to reach the target of waste reduction and of lowering the risk of waste handling as well as to access the chances of an integrated approach, UNIDO has decided to commission 2 experts from Oekopol with a fact finding mission with a view to outline an upcoming project. During their stay in Sri Lanka the following questions shall be discussed with relevant partners: What sort of waste and environmental management is already established in hospitals in Sri Lanka? How is hospital waste treated and are there options to make the situation more environmentally friendly? Are there possibilities to improve the environmentally-orientated procurement of hospitals? Is there a possibility to reduce the costs of hospital waste treatment (e.g. via recovery and reuse)? What are the relevant settings within the framework of existing legislation? The first part of the mission will be the assessment of the situation in hospitals and in the waste management sector. The second part will be the discussion with representatives from the public and private health care sector (e.g. suppliers of medical products, purchasing department) on further environmentally-orientated improvement within the supply chains in the context of international frameworks. The overall aim of the mission is to identify the needs of support to technical or managerial developments and if sensible to outline potential support activities.
Further action is required beyond active substance approval and product authorization of biocidal products to protect the environment. This action could be European legislation on the use-phase of certain biocides to shape their “proper use”. Whilst such piece of legislation is missing on EU level, countries have been implementing national measures. Within this document, we compiled examples from 13 different countries. The objective of this was (i) to provide examples for other Member States that would like to develop their national legislation further, and (ii) to provide exemplary legislation to the EU Commission to support drafting a harmonised European framework.
Das Projekt "Durchsetzung von Umweltinteressen vor Gericht - Deutschland als Beispiel für China" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Ecologic, Institut für Internationale und Europäische Umweltpolitik durchgeführt. Der chinesische Rechtsrahmen zum Schutz der Umwelt im öffentlichen Interesse soll gestärkt werden, um den als Folge der schnellen industriellen Entwicklung Chinas drohenden Umweltschäden entgegenwirken zu können. In anderen Ländern bestehende Rechtsrahmen können für eine chinesische Regelung Vorbildcharakter haben. Im Rahmen dieses Projekts erstellte Ecologic eine Studie zur deutschen Rechtslage, die im Herbst 2006 auf einem Workshop in Beijing präsentiert wurde.
This position paper intends to stimulate a profound rethinking of contemporary agricultural practice. We criticise the current intensity of chemical plant protection in Germany as ecologically unsustainable and thus threatening the achievement of key targets of environmental protection and nature conservation policies. In the first part of the paper, we provide background information on the use of plant protection products (PPP) in German agriculture, the role of agricultural policy, European pesticide legislation, the principles of and framework for environmental risk assessment and risk management of PPP, as well as environmental effects of PPP. The second part is presented against the backdrop of the European "Sustainable Use Directive" (2009/128/EC). This directive requires that "Member States shall adopt National Action Plans to set up their quantitative objectives, targets, measures, and timetables to reduce risks and impacts of pesticide use on human health and the environment and to encourage the development and introduction of integrated pest management and of alternative approaches or techniques to reduce dependency on the use of pesticides." Reflecting on the corresponding debate in Germany, we suggest the following five key principles for a sustainable use of PPP and provide recommendations for their implementation: (1) minimising use; (2) identifying, quantifying, and communicating risks; (3) optimising risk management; (4) compensating for unavoidable effects; (5) internalising external costs. © 2018, The Author(s).
Das Projekt "Assessment of Climate and Air Quality Change Effects on Forest Ecosystem Services in Europe (CEFES)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Forstliche Versuchs- und Forschungsanstalt Baden-Württemberg durchgeführt. The objective of CEFES is to perform a focused assessment and evaluation of data in EU forest monitoring networks to provide policy relevant information on: - The interactive effects of climate change with air quality change (nitrogen (N) deposition and ozone (O3) exposure) on European forest ecosystems and their services (wood production, C sequestration, biodiversity and the protective functions of forests in view of an adequate soil and water quality). - The way in which adaptive and sustainable forest management strategies can be used to mitigate climate and air quality change effects on forest structures and functions and keep forests sustainable in the long-term. The evaluations will be based on available data from forest monitoring systems at the European scale (mainly available data at ICP forests Level II and Level I plots with additional data derived in the LIFE+ FUTMON project) in combination with available databases on air quality and meteorology, and key data assessed in CEFES itself. More specifically, the objectives are to evaluate the above mentioned datasets and to assess the climate (precipitation, temperature) and air quality (N and acid deposition, O3) pressures and their effects on: - the protective functions of soil and water resources in terms of changes in (i) hydrological budgets and ground water recharge and (ii) soil acidification and N leaching to ground water and surface water; - forest growth, carbon (C) sequestration and the related CO2 exchange; - tree species diversity and ground vegetation, in terms of its nature conservation value; - forest ecosystem health, phenology and regeneration potential. Building on to these evaluations, CEFES aims to identify regionally specific adaptive management strategies in order to mitigate the impact of climate change on forest structures and functions. Considering the LIFE+ objectives, the project aims to contribute specifically to monitoring and evaluation of environmental policy and legislation by: - Evaluation of climate change scenarios, as described by the IPCC scenarios, and air quality change scenarios, as determined by policies related to (i) the Air Quality Framework Directive and related Daughter Directives of the EU and (ii) the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution. - Provision of policy relevant information on effects of climate change in relation to air quality change on forest ecosystems in Europe and giving recommendations for adaptation measures at the forest management level. - Provision of data that contributes to the reporting needs (specifically as defined in the criteria and indicators of the Ministerial Conferences of Protection of Forest Ecosystems, MCPFE) and obligations at national and European level.
Das Projekt "Entwicklung der richtigen Reaktion: Versuche eines Konsumgueter produzierenden Unternehmens, den EU-Vorschlag fuer eine Rahmenrichtlinie zum Wasser in die Entwicklung, Produktion und Verwendung von Waschmitteln zu integrieren" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Universität Trier, European Association for Environmental Management Education - Focal Point Trier -, Europäisches Diplom in Umweltwissenschaften durchgeführt. A new proposal for legislation, a proposed framework directive on water, has recently been developed by the European Commission. If implemented in its current state, one of its provisions will change the way users will be charged for water, both for its provision and its treatment. This could have an impact on the production of detergents at the company, but more likely could have greater impact on consumers using the detergents. This it important to the company because, at a consumer goods company, it needs to anticipate and satisfy the needs and desires of consumers. Therefore the key question it how the company can best anticipate and respond to upcoming legislation using a combination of tools within its environmental management system. Thus the project begins with an analysis of the Commission proposal and its likely impact on detergents. It then evaluates the environmental goals and various decision-making tools the company hat in place in its environmental management system. Finally it recommends a combination of tools the company could optimally deploy to develop an appropriate internal response to the proposed directive.
Das Projekt "Assessing legal compliance with and implementation of the waste acceptance criteria and procedures by the EU-12" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von BIPRO Beratungsgesellschaft für integrierte Problemlösungen GmbH durchgeführt.
Das Projekt "Der Markt fuer Pflanzenschutzmittel - Bestimmungsgruende und Marktanalyse" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Universität Hohenheim, Fakultät IV Agrarwissenschaften II, Institut für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaftliche Marktlehre, Fachgebiet Agrarmarktanalyse durchgeführt. Obwohl Pflanzenschutzmittel als Produktionsfaktoren der pflanzlichen Erzeugung von grosser Bedeutung sind, kann die Transparenz auf diesem Markt als voellig unzureichend beurteilt werden. Insbesondere die Analyse der Angebots- und Vermarktungsstruktur wird durch Verflechtungen zwischen den Unternehmen der pflanzenschutzmittelherstellenden Industrie erschwert. Auch im Bereich der Nachfrage liegen zuverlaessige, aussagekraeftige Statistiken nur in sehr begrenztem Umfang vor, wobei der Einsatz von Pflanzenschutzmitteln nicht nur von oekonomischen Faktoren und natuerlichen Standortbedingungen, sondern in zunehmendem Masse auch durch die rechtliche Rahmengesetzgebung, die kurzfristig sehr starke Nachfrageschwankungen hervorrufen kann, beeinflusst wird. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, die vorhandene Datengrundlage so zu strukturieren und zu ergaenzen, dass eine umfassende Analyse der derzeitigen Nachfrage-, Angebots- und Vermarktungsstruktur sowie der Preisbildung und -entwicklung moeglich wird, um daraus kuenftige Tendenzen fuer den nationalen und internationalen Markt fuer Pflanzenschutzmittel abzuleiten. Vorgehensweise: Untersuchungsdesign: Querschnitt.