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Smart CO2 Transformation (SCOT)
Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,
Reducing CO2, protecting the environment and our resources but also reducing dependency on raw materials are major societal challenges. In this context, the EU has adopted ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 80-95% below 1990 levels by 2050. So far, most attention from policy makers and industry has been paid to Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) which intends to concentrate CO2 an ...
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Urban Reduction of GHG Emissions in China and Europe (URGENCHE)
Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,
In URGENCHE, a team of internationally recognised scientists in the areas of health risk assessment, urban energy demand and supply scenarios, urban planning, environmental science and epidemiology - in close collaboration with city partners in both Europe and China - develops and applies a methodological framework for the assessment of the overall risks and benefits of alternative greenhouse gas ...
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Solutions for Implementing Sustainable Construction: the Sustainable Purchasing and Planning Centre (SISCo)
Start date: Dec 31, 2007, End date: Dec 30, 2011,
SISCo aims to embed sustainable development policy (social, economic and environmental) into local authority planning processes, by increasing the uses for energy efficiency and renewable technologies and improving resource management in built developments.The project brings together peers from the UK, Flanders and the Netherlands involved in planning processes to exchange knowledge on sustainable ...
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Distributed Information Acquisition and Decision-Making for Environmental Management (DIADEM)
Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2011,
The resulting methods and tools will support environmental management in industrial settings. In particular, the resulting system will support seamless and efficient integration of (i) robust and efficient gas monitoring systems and (ii) advanced decision support/planning systems which facilitate rapid, high-quality decision making based on rich domain expertise and large quantities of relevant in ...
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Particulates, Freight and heavy duty vehicles in Urban Environments (PARFUM)
Start date: Oct 1, 2006, End date: Mar 31, 2009,
Background
There is growing concern about the health and environmental impact of road transport on air quality. EU Air Quality Directives (in particular Directive 2008/50/EC on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe) require since 2005 limits for particulate matter (PM10) as these limits are s still being exceeded in a large number of cities. Dire ...
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