News
27th of February 2017
STRADE publishes policy brief on EU raw material import flows
STRADE's policy brief 02/2017 analyses the European import flows of metals in various processing states and the connections with specific environmental and socio-economic issues in resource-rich countries.
27th of February 2017
STRADE publishes policy brief on minerals and metals from non-EU countries
STRADE's policy brief 01/2017 examines the role and responsibility of European institutions to positively influence the environmental and social conditions of raw materials production in non-EU countries.
30th of December 2016
STRADE publishes policy brief on voluntary initiatives, principles and criteria on socio-economic sustainability in mining
STRADE's policy brief 09/2016 reviews socio-economic principles and criteria in voluntary and legally non-binding initiatives with particular relevance for the ore mining sector.
New report about Climate Protection Potential in the Waste Management Sector published
27th of October 2010 by Stefanie Degreif
Our colleagues published the final report about climate protection potential in the waste management sector.
The study focuses on the pressing problems of climate change, and examines the contribution that municipal waste management can potentially make to reducing greenhouse gases.
The EU 27 still releases up to 110 million t CO2 eq from landfill every year. Simply phasing out landfill would make a major additional contribution to climate protection. For the EU 27, unlike Germany, no base year in the past was investigated for comparison purposes, so it is not possible to make statements about any greenhouse gas reduction
contributions which the EU 27 may already have made to climate protection. However, on the basis of the assessment year 2007, the municipal waste sector in the EU 27 could contribute up to 32% to the EU 27 reduction target for 2020.
German version:
http://www.ifeu.de/abfallwirtschaft/pdf/OI-ifeu_KuA_BDE-BMU-UBA_Endbericht_20100210_4.pdf