Publications

BEF Publication: Knowledge and attitudes towards European integration and EU environmental legislation in local self-government in Croatia and Macedonia.

Nano technology is regarded as a key technology of the 21st century, which will be used in a large lumber of industries and technical applications. On the hand, completely new products are being developed, and on the other hand, existing technical solutions are being replaced with 'nao solutions'.

Background of the project was the fact that the technological and organisational level of plant safety in East European countries is not as developed as the EU-standards require it. These deficits have already lead to major environmental accidents or they could lead to short or long term natural disasters, in these countries.

After considerable improvements of wastewater treatment, the loads of nutrients and plant protection agents, deriving from agriculture and heavy metals from urban drainages effluents as well as from erosion of agricultural soils are the main sources of nutrients and harmful substances in the loads of water bodies.

This project on the tightening up of noise limits for civil jet aircraft has the objective, based on the insights of a status-quo analysis, of preparing proposals for updating Annex 16 and of undertaking an assessment of proposals for new (more stringent) noise limits, bearing in mind aspects of environmental protection as well as from a technical, legal and economic point of view.

Beschreibung

Entwicklung von Modellen zur Identifizierung von Schadstoffquellen -insbesondere im Verkehrsbereich- im Rahmen der 22. BImSchV - Dokumentation, Weiterentwicklung, Validierung und Maßnahmenplanung für ein bundeseinheitliches Vorgehen - Teilbericht

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 inventories of greenhouse-gas emissions.

Conferences and other events can affect the environment in a wide variety of ways.

According to the Council of European Producers of Materials for Construction (CEPMC), more than 20,000 different products and materials are used in Europe for constructing buildings and infrastructure.

A new regulation concerning the Registration, Evaluation, and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH) was proposed by the European Commission on October 29, 2003 (EC, 2003a). The regulation puts major responsibility on industry for ensuring the safe manufacture, import, and use of chemicals throughout the chemical supply chain and for documenting this in their registration dossiers.

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing mankind today. Although we have seen a tremendous increase in scientific findings on the pending risks and knowledge of potential options for action over the past decades, global greenhouse gas emissions which are the reason for man-made climate change still continue to rise alarmingly.