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Capacity Building in Sustainable Public Procurement (Building‐SPP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Background Each year European public authorities spend the equivalent of 16% of EU gross domestic product on the purchase of goods – such as office equipment, building components and transport vehicles – and services, such as building maintenance, transport services, cleaning and catering services and works. This public procurement can shape productio ...
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Background As a global phenomenon involving the movement of over 800 million people across international boundaries every year, tourism has a major impact on the environment. The World Tourism Organisation provided the first overall estimate of global tourism’s carbon footprint in Davos, in October 2007, which was 1 300 mega tonnes of CO2 equivalent or ...
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Background The construction sector in Europe consumes more raw materials by weight than any other industrial sector in Europe. Moreover, the sector accounts for the largest share of greenhouse gases emissions (about 40%). Measured in terms of weight, construction and demolition activities produce Europe’s largest waste stream (between 40 and 50% of tota ...
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Background Integrated Product Policy (IPP) has become an important topic for the EU. All products and services have an environmental impact, and IPP attempts to bring together different strands of legislation to better contribute to sustainable development goals and better integrate environmental considerations into other policy areas. Greener products m ...
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EMAS and Information Technology in Hospitals (e-Hospital EMAS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2004, End date: Jan 30, 2007,

Background Environmental problems associated with hospitals mainly relate to waste generated as a result of hospital activities, for example infectious waste and chemicals from laboratories, chemicals from X-ray machines and others, but also to energy usage and purchasing practices. Particularly due to the complicated nature of waste management processes ...
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Background All products cause environmental degradation in some way, whether from their manufacturing, use or disposal. The integrated product policy (IPP) seeks to minimise these by looking at all phases of a products' life-cycle – from production, distribution, consumption to handling at the end of their lifetime – and taking action where it is most ...
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