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Recycling – From E-Waste to Resources
Sustainable Innovation, understood as the shift of sustainable technologies, products and services to the market, requires a market creation concept and one common global agenda. The challenge is to raise awareness among all actors of the different sectors in order to realize the innovation potential and to shift to eco-innovations […]
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StEP – Solving the E-Waste Problem
StEP is an initiative of various UN organizations with the overall aim to solve the e-waste problem. Together with prominent members from industry, governments, international organizations, NGOs and academia actively participating in StEP, we initiate and facilitate approaches towards the sustainable handling of e-waste. In five Task Forces feasible, just […]
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UN environment agency backs action to regulate e-waste in Kenya
Kenya is set to become the first East African nation to regulate the management of electronic waste, also known as “e-waste”, following a conference run by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). read more The material available via this link was produced by the United Nations.
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Peak Water – when are we actually drinking Ethanol?
Perhaps only a ban on the use of ethanol as a bio-fuel will prove to be a decisive weapon against climate change Are we finally destroying our environment for the purpose of mobility? Are we finally allowing 1.5 billion people, who are already pretty much starving, to die? Are we […]
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How the Resource Curse Manipulates Good Governance in Australia
Natural Resources are supposed to be the greatest gift a country could discover. Undoubtedly, Australia takes advantage of this gift they have discovered. You can “discover” land and resource, but are you really “discovering” it or just finding it again? In a world where everything is about ‘getting rights to […]