The European Legal Framework for Peatland Restoration© Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (6/2025)
Biodiversity continues to decline worldwide. The territory of the European Union is no exception to this trend. At the same time, human well-being is not only endangered by this biodiversity crisis, but also by the climate crisis with all its consequences.
Viable recycling approaches to electrolyser stacks© Lehrstuhl fĂĽr Abfallverwertungstechnik und Abfallwirtschaft der Montanuniversität Leoben (12/2024)
To ensure the sustainable use of the world's limited resources, it is essential to integrate principles of circularity into every new technology or product development. The ReCycle project deals with the reduction of environmental impact and related recycling capabilities (of hydrogen technologies) and aims to apply these circularity principles to technologies within the hydrogen value chain.
Reporting of food waste in the EU – Results of current estimates in Germany© Lehrstuhl fĂĽr Abfallverwertungstechnik und Abfallwirtschaft der Montanuniversität Leoben (11/2020)
In February 2019, the German Federal Cabinet adopted the 'National Strategy for Reducing Food Waste', setting a framework for the future direction of this initiative. Among other things, it stipulated that an inter-ministerial "Indicator 12.3 Working Group" should prepare the data bases and methods for nationwide balancing of food waste generation (baseline). Based on existing 2015 data, this status quo analysis will be used as a starting point to agree on milestones for the respective sectors.
Transparency: Disclosure and Dissemination of Regulatory Data in the EU© Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (5/2020)
Regulatory data submitted to EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies is – depending on the nature of such information – subject to a myriad of different transparency regimes. These regimes determine rules on disclosure following access requests, the possibilities to object to such disclosure as well as the (scope of) active dissemination of such information.