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Material choices for environment-friendly packaging design
Analysis of existing Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies
There is a growing agreement on negative consequences of increasing single-use plastic and packaging waste to human health, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, climate change and biodi- versity. However, implementation of measures to…
Implementing circular economy in Mexico: Recommendations for strategies against obsolescence of smartphones & textiles
The aim of this document is to draw attention to necessary reforms of the legal and economic framework in the area of "circular economy", waste prevention and product obsolescence. In addition, the potential of the circular economy for…
Recycled content in plastic material with focus on PET, HDPE, LDPE, PP
State of play
The GIZ is implementing a global project “Support of the Export Initiative for Green Technologies” as a contribution to solving key environmental problems on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMU). The BMU Export…
Design-for-recycling (D4R) – State of play
The GIZ is implementing a global project “Support of the Export Initiative for Green Technologies” as a contribution to solving key environmental problems on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMU). The BMU Export…
Considerations for packaging classification
Internal paper prepared for the Technical Working Groups of the CAP-SEA project in partner countries
The GIZ is implementing a global project “Support of the Export Initiative for Green Technologies” as a contribution to solving key environmental problems on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMU). The BMU Export…
Impact of COVID-19 on single-use plastics and the environment in Europe
This ETC/WMGE report provides the detailed analysis underpinning the EEA Briefing “Impacts of COVID-19 on single-use plastic in Europe’s environment”.
The COVID19 pandemic is having immense effects on societies across the world. Apart…
Green technologies and critical raw materials
Strategies for a circular economy
This policy paper has been commissioned by Henrike Hahn, Member of the European Parliament from the Greens / EFA to support her legislative activities on the European strategy for critical raw materials.
It aims at answering key…
Closing the Loop on Energy Access in Africa
White Paper
Access to clean, reliable electricity is one of the greatest challenges to sustainable development in Africa. Energy storage, particularly batteries, will be critical to supporting Africa’s progress to full energy access by 2030,…
Resource consumption of the passenger vehicle sector in Germany until 2035 – the impact of different drive systems
Study on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
The annual crude oil demand for passenger cars in Germany can be reduced by 56 percent by 2035 compared to 2020 if the share of electric passenger cars in German registrations rises to 100 percent until then. These savings significantly…
Policy instruments for upstream Circular Economy
Webisode 3
Presentation by Siddharth Prakash, "15th Asia-Pacific Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production", May 4th 2021.
Using knowledge to cope with crisis - Annual Report of the Oeko-Institut 2020
State of Play and Roadmap Concept: Mobility Sector
RE-SOURCING Deliverable 4.2
Meeting the Paris Agreement’s goals requires transformation in the mobility sector. Battery electric vehicle technology today offers a promising technology to achieve the necessary changes and transform the sector. Yet this…
Assessment of options to improve particular aspects of the EU regulatory framework on batteries
Final report
The general aim of this final report for the project “Assessment of options to improve particular aspects of the EU Regulatory Framework on Batteries” is to support the European Commission in the preparation of their Impact Assessment…
Study to identify and assess the feasibility of measures to enhance the impact of Directive 2006/66/EC
Final report
This is the final report for the project “Study to identify and assess the feasibility of measures to enhance the impact of Directive 2006/66/EC”, hereafter referred to as the “feasibility study”. The purpose of the work is to support…
Emerging waste streams – Challenges and opportunities
Service under Framework contract EEA/HSR/20/001-3 for the provision of expert assistance to support the European Environment Agency’s activities on circular economy and industrial transformation
This report presents a series of policy options that could be implemented in the future to move towards the proper management and increased circularity of emerging waste streams arising from the renewable energy technologies discussed in…
SUMEX Deliverable D5.1: Summary of Kick-off workshop “Europeanising Sustainable Development in the Extractive Industries”
December 2020
This document summarises and contextualises the key output from the digital project launch event “Europeanising Sustainable Development in the Extractive Industries” on 17 November 2020.
Waste tyre management
Baseline study for Ghana
This report was produced within the second phase of the Ghanaian part of the programme on Sustainable Recycling Industries (SRI). The report contains an overview of environmentally sound management options for waste tyres, the current…
Producer responsibility of third-country producers in e-commerce
Final report
In order to enforce producer responsibility under waste law against producers of electrical and electronic equipment, batteries and packaging from countries outside the EU, so-called third countries, a new study recommends adding two new…
Environmental and socio-economic challenges in battery supply chains: graphite and lithium
Short study prepared within the framework of the BMBF joint project Fab4Lib
The European Commission set a clear goal with the Green Deal to establish a transition towards a greener economy with the transport sector being one of the main pillars. A key ingredient are lithiumion batteries required for the uptake…
Environmental Criticality of Raw Materials
An assessment of environmental hazard potentials of raw materials from mining and recommendations for an ecological raw materials policy
Within the project OekoRess II, more than 50 mineral raw materials were evaluated with regard to the environmental hazard potential of mining using and further refining the methodology developed in the predecessor project OekoRess I.
The…