Assessing Climate Neutrality and Circularity in LCA – Methodology and Application in a Case Study
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Climate neutrality and circularity are two main challenges and can only be addressed by the methodology of dynamic Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), where GHG emissions, resource demand and material recovery are calculated over the life time from construction, operation until the end of life management.
© Lehrstuhl für Abfallverwertungstechnik und Abfallwirtschaft der Montanuniversität Leoben (12/2024)
Climate neutrality and circularity are two main challenges and can only be addressed by the methodology of dynamic Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), where GHG emissions, resource demand and material recovery are calculated over the life time from construction, operation until the end of life management.
‘Human Rights Are Not Against Society’: On Standing in Climate Change Litigation
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Bei Klimaklagen hängt der Zugang zu Gericht in besonderem Maße von der Abgrenzung subjektiver Rechte von kollektiven Interessen ab. Wie die Zuordnung individuell geschützter Rechte im Einzelfall vorgenommen wird, bestimmt sich in erster Linie nach der jeweiligen Rechtsordnung. Doch lassen sich von den Gerichten entwickelte dogmatische Herangehensweisen teilweise übertragen. Dieser Beitrag arbeitet auf rechtsvergleichender Grundlage vier Vorschläge im Umgang mit standing bei Klimaklagen heraus und begegnet so der Spannungslage, in der sich subjektiver Rechtsschutz im Licht des Klimawandels befindet.
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Bei Klimaklagen hängt der Zugang zu Gericht in besonderem Maße von der Abgrenzung subjektiver Rechte von kollektiven Interessen ab. Wie die Zuordnung individuell geschützter Rechte im Einzelfall vorgenommen wird, bestimmt sich in erster Linie nach der jeweiligen Rechtsordnung. Doch lassen sich von den Gerichten entwickelte dogmatische Herangehensweisen teilweise übertragen. Dieser Beitrag arbeitet auf rechtsvergleichender Grundlage vier Vorschläge im Umgang mit standing bei Klimaklagen heraus und begegnet so der Spannungslage, in der sich subjektiver Rechtsschutz im Licht des Klimawandels befindet.
European GMO Regulation in Need of Change?
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Ways to the Future Regarding the Risk Regulation of Genome Editing Techniques
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Ways to the Future Regarding the Risk Regulation of Genome Editing Techniques
The Legislative Response to Climate Change in Aotearoa New Zealand and Germany: Lessons from Abroad?
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The human-induced climate crisis poses an enormous challenge to societies’ ability to change. Communities around the world are already experiencing its detrimental impacts, includingmore frequent andmore extremeweather events.
© Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (10/2021)
The human-induced climate crisis poses an enormous challenge to societies’ ability to change. Communities around the world are already experiencing its detrimental impacts, includingmore frequent andmore extremeweather events.
The Integration of Environmental and Climate Protection into the Common Agricultural Policy – Legal Concepts and Developments
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Der Aufsatz beleuchtet die rechtliche Integration von Umwelt- und Klimaschutzaspekten in die Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik (GAP) der EU. Zunächst werden die rechtlichen und institutionellen Grundlagen der GAP und ihre Beziehung zur Umweltpolitik der Union erörtert.
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Der Aufsatz beleuchtet die rechtliche Integration von Umwelt- und Klimaschutzaspekten in die Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik (GAP) der EU. Zunächst werden die rechtlichen und institutionellen Grundlagen der GAP und ihre Beziehung zur Umweltpolitik der Union erörtert.
Carbon Taxes in the EU – Introduction, Challenges and Barriers
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The excitement about concluding the Paris Agreement is giving way to the sobering realization that a lot more needs to be done to attain its climate policy objective. More and more Member States in the European Union embrace carbon taxes but the national measures differ strongly.
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The excitement about concluding the Paris Agreement is giving way to the sobering realization that a lot more needs to be done to attain its climate policy objective. More and more Member States in the European Union embrace carbon taxes but the national measures differ strongly.
The EU, Environmental Law and Brexit: The Challenges Ahead
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Während der bevorstehende Brexit, also der Austritt des Vereinigten Königreiches aus der Europäischen Union, in den meisten anderen Rechtsgebieten eine große Herausforderung darstellt, wurden die Folgen des Brexit für das Umweltrecht zunächst optimistischer beurteilt – auch während der Anhörungen im House of Lords.
© Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (2/2017)
Während der bevorstehende Brexit, also der Austritt des Vereinigten Königreiches aus der Europäischen Union, in den meisten anderen Rechtsgebieten eine große Herausforderung darstellt, wurden die Folgen des Brexit für das Umweltrecht zunächst optimistischer beurteilt – auch während der Anhörungen im House of Lords.
Passing and Implementing Domestic Climate Legislation under the 2015 Agreement
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In the context of the current negotiations of the Ad Hoc Durban Platform for a new global agreement on climate change, discussions are in progress concerning the legal form of this agreement. In particular, deliberations are underway regarding norms that would be legally binding internationally, and norms that would be legally binding domestically. An international obligation to pass and to implement domestic climate legislation would combine these two dimensions.
© Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (9/2014)
In the context of the current negotiations of the Ad Hoc Durban Platform for a new global agreement on climate change, discussions are in progress concerning the legal form of this agreement. In particular, deliberations are underway regarding norms that would be legally binding internationally, and norms that would be legally binding domestically. An international obligation to pass and to implement domestic climate legislation would combine these two dimensions.
Climate change mitigation through solid waste management
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The vast majority of solid waste management (SWM) projects implemented in developing, emerging and transition countries (DETC) envisage the disposal of residual waste on a sanitary landfill. Mostly this leads to an increase of greenhouse gas emissions compared to the given situation. With the implementation of advanced SWM systems DETC could lower their national greenhouse gas balance by 10 – 15%. The paper discusses the possibilities how financial sustainability of advanced SWM systems could be safeguarded in DETC. It is part of a doctoral thesis recently finalized at the University of Rostock / Germany.
© European Compost Network ECN e.V. (6/2014)
The vast majority of solid waste management (SWM) projects implemented in developing, emerging and transition countries (DETC) envisage the disposal of residual waste on a sanitary landfill. Mostly this leads to an increase of greenhouse gas emissions compared to the given situation. With the implementation of advanced SWM systems DETC could lower their national greenhouse gas balance by 10 – 15%. The paper discusses the possibilities how financial sustainability of advanced SWM systems could be safeguarded in DETC. It is part of a doctoral thesis recently finalized at the University of Rostock / Germany.
Potentialities of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) project for Brazilian National Policy on Solid Waste and National Policy on Climate Change implementation
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Climate change (CC) and municipal solid waste (MSW) management have common demands to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The MSW disposal represent more than 20% of anthropogenic methane (CH4) (IPCC, 2005). The estimated contribution of this sector in anthropogenic GHG emissions is 3-5% (UNEP, 2010), and has great potential for reducing fuel and energy consumption in collection and treatment of CH4 avoided emissions in landfills by biodegradable municipal waste (BMW) diversion to biodigestion and composting, and fix carbon in soils by compost or biofertilizers produced application, and reduce natural resources extraction by multi-material recycling.
© European Compost Network ECN e.V. (6/2014)
Climate change (CC) and municipal solid waste (MSW) management have common demands to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The MSW disposal represent more than 20% of anthropogenic methane (CH4) (IPCC, 2005). The estimated contribution of this sector in anthropogenic GHG emissions is 3-5% (UNEP, 2010), and has great potential for reducing fuel and energy consumption in collection and treatment of CH4 avoided emissions in landfills by biodegradable municipal waste (BMW) diversion to biodigestion and composting, and fix carbon in soils by compost or biofertilizers produced application, and reduce natural resources extraction by multi-material recycling.
