ife Cycle Assessment (LCA) according to ISO has been the driving power for LCA diffusion, but it has limitations regarding empirical mechanisms, spatial/temporal aspects and economic/social parameters. To increase the [...]
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In 2007, UNEP started a project started which promotes eco-labelling in Brazil, China, India, Kenya and the South East African Region, Mexico and South Africa. The project is funded by the European Commission and the German [...]
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The main objective of this project was to conduct a process of policy reflection through a professionally facilitated series of three workshops, including a fundamental pre- and after-workshop phase. In doing so the proposed [...]
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Sustainable consumption is a much-discussed topic. To ensure that things move beyond the level of discussion and knowledge of sustainable action also penetrates to the consumers, functional instruments for integrating [...]
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The project ZUFO pursues a modular and multi-dimensional analysis of an exemplary forest-timber-chain in the wood construction sector. Together with businesses and associations, it aims at pointing out practical development [...]
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The Sustainability Report Ranking evaluates the content and communicative quality of the sustainability and environmental reports of Germany’s 150 largest corporations. It is a joint evaluation project of the Institute for [...]
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LOTOS developed sustainable solutions for logistics processes from goods procurement to the delivery of products. To this end sustainability criteria in the logistics processes of the company Tchibo GmbH were analysed, [...]
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GELENA is an interdisciplinary group of young scientists within the socio-ecological research initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The group members are affilated either with the Carl [...]
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Sustainable development is a global objective and the European Commission has a responsibility in playing a key role to promote sustainable development within the EU. In such context of growing environmental awareness the [...]
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Der dynamische Wandel von Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Umwelt verändert die Kontextbedingungen für eine sozial-ökologische Steuerung gesellschaftlicher Entwicklung. Auf allen politischen, wirtschaftlichen und räumlichen [...]
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The objectives of the project could be splitted up into five phases:
Phase 1 Summarise existing IPP-related indicators, assessing their use-fulness for monitoring the environmental impacts of a European IPP that could be [...]
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The overriding aim of the transdisciplinary project was to make a practical analytical contribution towards clarifying the basic requirements, protagonist and network structures, conditions for success and sustainability [...]
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Purpose of this report is the preparation of a BMBF-programme focussing towards procut-related challenges of sustainable economy in the framework of the German research programme sustainability (FONA): Which chances and [...]
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The project aims at the assessment of policy instruments which target the increased use of renewable energy sources for heat production. Within the project, we will select an appropriate set of policy instruments and give [...]
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