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VLEVA: Call for Proposals
17 February, 2012
The Flamish VLEVA agency announced a Call for Proposals "Support to Regional Themetic Networks" under Civil Society Facility-Partnership Programmes for Civil Society Organisations. The global objective of the Call is to achieve a more dynamic civil society actively participating in public debate on democracy, human rights, social inclusion and the rule of law and with capacity to influence policy and decision making processes.
Public consultation on SCP in the context of resource efficiency
9 February, 2012
The European Commission gathers views on delivering more sustainable consumption and production in the context of resource efficiency. It is asking for contributions on the possible introduction of new EU wide measures related to Sustainable Consumption and Production.
UNIDO-CEU Green Industry Summer Course (Budapest, 25 June - 6 July 2012)
9 February, 2012
We are glad to inform about the next Green Industry Summer Course organized by our UNIDO Institute for Capacity Development in cooperation with the Central European University in Budapest. The summer course will be held in Budapest, Hungary, 25 June - 6 July 2012.
Billions of EU Funds Wasted on Dead-End Investments
9 February, 2012
New map shows socially and environmentally harmful projects in Central and Eastern Europe. (Press release of CEE Bankwatch, Friends of the Earth Europe)
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BILLIONS OF EU FUNDS WASTED ON DEAD-END INVESTMENTS
New map shows socially and environmentally harmful projects in Central and Eastern Europe (The online version of the map ‘Roadmap to sustainability or dead-end investments’ is available at: http://bankwatch.org/billions)
GIN 2012 Conference - Call for Abstracts
8 February, 2012
Our Division of Environmental Technology and Management at Linköping University took initiative to organize the 18th Greening of Industry Network (GIN) conference in Linköping, Sweden, during 21-24 October, 2012. The website of the GIN 2012 conference is developed, the Call for Abstracts (deadline 15 April, 2012) is open, and an electronic Call for Papers for a special issue of the Journal of Cleaner Production is available.
ISO Certification Survey 2010
2 February, 2012
The International Organization for Standardization has recently published the survey of certificates providing information about number of ISO certificates worldwide in 2010. The survey includes numbers on the following standards: ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO/TS 16949, ISO 13485, ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 22000. The full survey can be ordered and principal findings downloaded for free from ISO website.
Priorities of the Danish Presidency in Environmental Field
31 January, 2012
Speach by Danish Minister for the Environment, Ms. Ida Auken, in the Environmental Committee of the European Parliament 25th January 2012.
PATRES Project
30 January, 2012
From Johannes Fresner, STENUM:
PATRES is a project within Intelligent Energy Europe. The main objective of PATRES is supporting local authorities, public utilities and social housing bodies in implementing effective regulations and policies concerning minimum levels of energy from Renewable energy (RE) sources in their building regulations and codes for new or refurbished buildings or in the public procurement for their facilities or social housing.
Environmental Footprint of Products
27 January, 2012
European Commission DG Environment has recently published the proposal of methodology for the calculation of the environmental footprint of products (including carbon footprint). It is opened for comments now.
Cooperation between PREPARE and RECP Net
20 January, 2012
Not only has the new Czech PREPARE Secretariat devised a proposal for a financial model for PREPARE (see previous blog post), they have also made this proposal for cooperation between PREPARE and RECP-Net.
Have a look, so you can join the discussion during the meeting in Prague next week.