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Colombia faces a number of challenges including growing need for social housing in metropolitan areas driven by accelerating urbanisation associated with a growing electricity demand as well as increasing hydroelectric uncertainty as a result of changes in the el Niño weather phenomenon. At the same time, Colombia actively implementing its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Par... read more

pe09-019_mitigating_the_consequences_of_demographic_change.pdf

This report analyses and classifies the prevailing and emerging supply chain management practices for environmental protection in the supply chains of cotton, tin, natural rubber, coffee and iron ore/steel. To provide the background for this analysis, it contains an inventory of operational approaches to and instruments for sustainable supply chain management at the company level. In addition,... read more

buchli.pdf

UBA's Daten zur Umwelt 2017 [Data on the Environment] publication offers a complete overview of all environmental sectors in Germany. It concludes that greater effort is required to achieve the national goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent until 2020; air quality in cities continues to be too heavily polluted. In contrast, drinking water quality remains good. read more

The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) and the German Environment Agency (UBA) are organising the German SUSTAINABLE BUILDING Award for the third time. read more

Der Bericht fasst die wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen des Vorhabens „Umweltpolitik im Dialog“ zusammen. Aufgrund einer Sekundärdatenanalyse sowie einer Literaturauswertung werden sechs Gruppen (Sozialfiguren) beschrieben, die gegenüber Umweltpolitik skeptisch bis ablehnend eingestellt sind und die sich bezüglich ihrer Bereitschaft zur Beteiligung an umweltpolitischen Dialogen unterscheiden. Schl... read more