The Parliamentary Yearbook has reported over the years on industrial and domestic waste management and recycling and is currently gathering news items for a major feature in the next edition
Ray Georgeson East Midlands Conference 2010Ray Georgeson
Slides from presentation to councils in East Midlands - focusing on current issues in waste policy and legislation with some recent historical context and commentary on recent developments. With selected references/weblinks.
This presentation was given at IEEP's capacity building for environmental tax reform conference on 5 October 2017 in Brussels, Belgium.
Speaker: Herman Havekes (Dutch Water Authorities)
Global Forum on Environment dedicated to chemicals management: Roshini Jayewa...OECD Environment
The Global Forum on Environment discussed the challenges posed by chemicals, provided knowledge on effective and sustainable policies for the sound management of chemicals. Together, leading actors in the field of chemicals management promoted effective engagement, collaboration and action on the sound management of chemicals and waste. The speakers included regulators and policy makers in charge of chemical safety in OECD member and partner countries as well as relevant stakeholders from International Governmental Organisations, private industry organisations and companies, civil society, philanthropies and more.
Session 2.4 focused on best practices in setting-up legal and institutional frameworks. The design and implementation of comprehensive and coherent legal and institutional frameworks are key to achieving sound management of chemicals and waste. During this session, panel members shared their experience on setting-up legal and institutional frameworks for the management of industrial and consumer chemicals, with a special emphasis on the sustainable financing of these frameworks.
Ray Georgeson East Midlands Conference 2010Ray Georgeson
Slides from presentation to councils in East Midlands - focusing on current issues in waste policy and legislation with some recent historical context and commentary on recent developments. With selected references/weblinks.
This presentation was given at IEEP's capacity building for environmental tax reform conference on 5 October 2017 in Brussels, Belgium.
Speaker: Herman Havekes (Dutch Water Authorities)
Global Forum on Environment dedicated to chemicals management: Roshini Jayewa...OECD Environment
The Global Forum on Environment discussed the challenges posed by chemicals, provided knowledge on effective and sustainable policies for the sound management of chemicals. Together, leading actors in the field of chemicals management promoted effective engagement, collaboration and action on the sound management of chemicals and waste. The speakers included regulators and policy makers in charge of chemical safety in OECD member and partner countries as well as relevant stakeholders from International Governmental Organisations, private industry organisations and companies, civil society, philanthropies and more.
Session 2.4 focused on best practices in setting-up legal and institutional frameworks. The design and implementation of comprehensive and coherent legal and institutional frameworks are key to achieving sound management of chemicals and waste. During this session, panel members shared their experience on setting-up legal and institutional frameworks for the management of industrial and consumer chemicals, with a special emphasis on the sustainable financing of these frameworks.
Global Forum on Environment dedicated to chemicals management: Monika Gail M...OECD Environment
The Global Forum on Environment discussed the challenges posed by chemicals, provided knowledge on effective and sustainable policies for the sound management of chemicals. Together, leading actors in the field of chemicals management promoted effective engagement, collaboration and action on the sound management of chemicals and waste. The speakers included regulators and policy makers in charge of chemical safety in OECD member and partner countries as well as relevant stakeholders from International Governmental Organisations, private industry organisations and companies, civil society, philanthropies and more.
Session 2.4 focused on best practices in setting-up legal and institutional frameworks. The design and implementation of comprehensive and coherent legal and institutional frameworks are key to achieving sound management of chemicals and waste. During this session, panel members shared their experience on setting-up legal and institutional frameworks for the management of industrial and consumer chemicals, with a special emphasis on the sustainable financing of these frameworks.
Global Forum on Environment dedicated to chemicals management: Francis Peters...OECD Environment
The Global Forum on Environment discussed the challenges posed by chemicals, provided knowledge on effective and sustainable policies for the sound management of chemicals. Together, leading actors in the field of chemicals management promoted effective engagement, collaboration and action on the sound management of chemicals and waste. The speakers included regulators and policy makers in charge of chemical safety in OECD member and partner countries as well as relevant stakeholders from International Governmental Organisations, private industry organisations and companies, civil society, philanthropies and more.
Session 2.2 focused on the concept of safe-by-design which aims to prevent negative impacts on human health and the environment, by considering safety aspects early in the design process of chemicals, materials and products. It also enables the transition towards a circular economy, which requires inherently safer materials that maintain their quality through multiple material cycles, including repair, reuse and recycling.
Global Forum on Environment dedicated to chemicals management: Satoru Morishi...OECD Environment
The Global Forum on Environment discussed the challenges posed by chemicals, provided knowledge on effective and sustainable policies for the sound management of chemicals. Together, leading actors in the field of chemicals management promoted effective engagement, collaboration and action on the sound management of chemicals and waste. The speakers included regulators and policy makers in charge of chemical safety in OECD member and partner countries as well as relevant stakeholders from International Governmental Organisations, private industry organisations and companies, civil society, philanthropies and more.
Session 4 aimed to identify (i) the issues of common interest between Members and Partners where OECD could help design solutions; and (ii) ways the OECD can help implement the post-2020 UN framework for the sound management of chemicals and waste, possibly through Partnerships with other stakeholders, especially the other IOMC Participating Organisations.
Presented by Koen Cochet (VLM Belgium) at FERTINNOWA's 2nd International workshop "Meeting growers’ needs: Exchanging Technologies on Irrigation and Fertigation" Description:
The five-step approach consists of: setting out legislation through participation, communication, field visits with advisory, control and enforcement, and evaluation and fine-tuning legislation. Pressure through legislation, build up several, logical steps to be effective, is a key factor to support the transfer of innovative techniques.
Towards green budgeting: a roadmap -- Alexandre Godzinksi, FranceOECD Governance
This presentation was made by Alexandre Godzinksi, France, at the Introductory Workshop on Green Budgeting Tools held at the OECD, Paris, on 29 April 20
In April 2016, Haïti Priorise held its eleventh sector expert roundtable to discuss the best solutions for fiscal management and resource mobilization. Roundtable participants were asked to identify the strengths and weaknesses of current policy efforts and to propose actions they think should be prioritized as a means to improve fiscal management and resource mobilization in Haiti.
Andrea Jünemann:
Education: Lawyer, Since the early 90ties Desk Officer in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy in different fields e.g. German and European Competition Law, New Innovative Technologies, Biotechnology and Food Industry, Human Resources.
Since 2008: Head of Devision "Waste- and Water Management"
Global Forum on Environment dedicated to chemicals management: Monika Gail M...OECD Environment
The Global Forum on Environment discussed the challenges posed by chemicals, provided knowledge on effective and sustainable policies for the sound management of chemicals. Together, leading actors in the field of chemicals management promoted effective engagement, collaboration and action on the sound management of chemicals and waste. The speakers included regulators and policy makers in charge of chemical safety in OECD member and partner countries as well as relevant stakeholders from International Governmental Organisations, private industry organisations and companies, civil society, philanthropies and more.
Session 2.4 focused on best practices in setting-up legal and institutional frameworks. The design and implementation of comprehensive and coherent legal and institutional frameworks are key to achieving sound management of chemicals and waste. During this session, panel members shared their experience on setting-up legal and institutional frameworks for the management of industrial and consumer chemicals, with a special emphasis on the sustainable financing of these frameworks.
Global Forum on Environment dedicated to chemicals management: Francis Peters...OECD Environment
The Global Forum on Environment discussed the challenges posed by chemicals, provided knowledge on effective and sustainable policies for the sound management of chemicals. Together, leading actors in the field of chemicals management promoted effective engagement, collaboration and action on the sound management of chemicals and waste. The speakers included regulators and policy makers in charge of chemical safety in OECD member and partner countries as well as relevant stakeholders from International Governmental Organisations, private industry organisations and companies, civil society, philanthropies and more.
Session 2.2 focused on the concept of safe-by-design which aims to prevent negative impacts on human health and the environment, by considering safety aspects early in the design process of chemicals, materials and products. It also enables the transition towards a circular economy, which requires inherently safer materials that maintain their quality through multiple material cycles, including repair, reuse and recycling.
Global Forum on Environment dedicated to chemicals management: Satoru Morishi...OECD Environment
The Global Forum on Environment discussed the challenges posed by chemicals, provided knowledge on effective and sustainable policies for the sound management of chemicals. Together, leading actors in the field of chemicals management promoted effective engagement, collaboration and action on the sound management of chemicals and waste. The speakers included regulators and policy makers in charge of chemical safety in OECD member and partner countries as well as relevant stakeholders from International Governmental Organisations, private industry organisations and companies, civil society, philanthropies and more.
Session 4 aimed to identify (i) the issues of common interest between Members and Partners where OECD could help design solutions; and (ii) ways the OECD can help implement the post-2020 UN framework for the sound management of chemicals and waste, possibly through Partnerships with other stakeholders, especially the other IOMC Participating Organisations.
Presented by Koen Cochet (VLM Belgium) at FERTINNOWA's 2nd International workshop "Meeting growers’ needs: Exchanging Technologies on Irrigation and Fertigation" Description:
The five-step approach consists of: setting out legislation through participation, communication, field visits with advisory, control and enforcement, and evaluation and fine-tuning legislation. Pressure through legislation, build up several, logical steps to be effective, is a key factor to support the transfer of innovative techniques.
Towards green budgeting: a roadmap -- Alexandre Godzinksi, FranceOECD Governance
This presentation was made by Alexandre Godzinksi, France, at the Introductory Workshop on Green Budgeting Tools held at the OECD, Paris, on 29 April 20
In April 2016, Haïti Priorise held its eleventh sector expert roundtable to discuss the best solutions for fiscal management and resource mobilization. Roundtable participants were asked to identify the strengths and weaknesses of current policy efforts and to propose actions they think should be prioritized as a means to improve fiscal management and resource mobilization in Haiti.
Andrea Jünemann:
Education: Lawyer, Since the early 90ties Desk Officer in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy in different fields e.g. German and European Competition Law, New Innovative Technologies, Biotechnology and Food Industry, Human Resources.
Since 2008: Head of Devision "Waste- and Water Management"
This presentation was given at IEEP's capacity building for environmental tax reform conference on 5 October 2017 in Brussels, Belgium.
Speakers: Patrick ten Brink and Emma Watkins, IEEP
From the Loire to the Vistula River. Three steps in planning the energy trans...Forum Energii
Polish-French relations have become a bit difficult lately. When President Macron said in an interview that the Paris climate protesters should move to Warsaw because it is Poland that is blocking European climate ambitions, Poland was in turmoil. Leaving aside the emotions, it is worth looking at how the French are coping with the energy transformation. This is what the new analysis of the Forum Energii is about.
The Parliamentary Yearbook is currently gathering news items for major features on the regeneration of our urban landscape in the next edition and has been following the progress of Local Enterprise Partnerships since their launch in the Summer of 2010
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The Parliamentary Yearbook is currently gathering news items for major features in the next edition covering the UK education system and has been following closely the efforts of Government to provide a balance between the need to limit immigration and the economic benefit of overseas students coming to the UK
With the growth in the use of the internet by small and medium sized businesses and the threat posed to their activities by cyber crime, the Parliamentary Yearbook is, as part of its ongoing coverage feature of security issues, carrying a major piece in the next edition on Government and industry’s efforts to increase cyber security.
The Parliamentary Yearbook is, in recognition of UK business commercial success and outstanding achievement, carrying a major feature in the next edition on the Queen’s awards for Enterprise, the UK’s most prestigious awards for business.
Earlier this year the Parliamentary Information Office of the Parliamentary Yearbook reported on the Government’s plans for detailed consultations with industry and consumers over the planned changes to the feed-in tariff scheme for solar energy. This will form part of a major feature on environment, sustainable energy and climate change in the next edition
The Parliamentary Yearbook is currently gathering news items for major features on sustainable energy and climate change in the next edition and has been monitoring progress following the Energy Act last year
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The Parliamentary Information Office of the Parliamentary Yearbook is currently gathering news items for major features on sustainable energy and climate change in the next edition and has been monitoring progress at Rio+20 towards a greener future
Following the announcement by UKTI of the series of Global Business Summits to take place during the London Olympics, the Parliamentary Yearbook has been closely following progress and achievements as the conferences take place
Earlier this year the Parliamentary Yearbook reported on the results of the Government’s competition to select 12 towns to become 'Portas Pilots’. A further 15 towns have now been selected to benefit from funding to help turn around their "unloved and unused" high streets. High Street regeneration will form part of a major feature on communities in the next edition
The Parliamentary Yearbook is currently gathering news items for major features on sustainable energy and climate change in the next edition and will be monitoring progress following the Rio+20 conference “towards a greener future”
The Parliamentary Information Office of the Parliamentary Yearbook has been monitoring progress in Government policy relating to healthy eating in schools since Jamie Oliver’s ground breaking campaign to improve school food in 2005. This will form part of a major feature on healthy living in the next edition
Recently the Parliamentary Information Office of the Parliamentary Yearbook has been reporting on the Government’s plans for railway upgrades including plans for High Speed 2. Improvements to our transport infrastructure will form part of a major feature in the next edition of the publication
As part of its ongoing reports on the Government’s energy and climate change policy the Parliamentary Information Office of the Parliamentary Yearbook has been monitoring progress on the draft energy bill. This will form part of a major feature on environment, sustainable energy and climate change in the next edition of the Parliamentary Yeabook
The Parliamentary Information Office of the Parliamentary Yearbook has been monitoring progress in Government policy relating to education for major features in the next edition on both our education system and diversity and inclusiveness
The Parliamentary Information Office of the Parliamentary Yearbook is currently gathering news items for major features on the impact of the London Olympics for publication in the next edition
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The Parliamentary Information Office of the Parliamentary Yearbook has been following closely the Government’s drive to increase the proportion of women in British boardrooms and will be publishing the results in the next edition
The Parliamentary Information Office of the Parliamentary Yearbook is currently gathering news items for major features on the health of the Nation in this London Olympic year for publication in the next edition
1. Waste Management Medals Table
The Parliamentary Yearbook has reported over the years on industrial and domestic
waste management and recycling and is currently gathering news items for a major
feature in the next edition
A new report on how Member States manage their municipal waste shows startling
differences across the EU. The report grades the 27 Member States against 18 criteria,
using green, orange and red flags in areas such as total waste recycled, pricing of waste
disposal, and infringements of European legislation. The resulting scoreboard forms part of
an on-going study that will help Member States improve their waste management
performance. Top of the table are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands,
and Sweden, none of which have more than 2 red flags. But the pattern is reversed at the
other end of the scale, where green flags are scarce.
Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik said:
"The picture that emerges from this exercise confirms my strong concerns. Many Member
States are still landfilling huge amounts of municipal waste – the worst waste management
option – despite better alternatives, and despite structural funds being available to finance
better options. Valuable resources are being buried, potential economic benefits are being
lost, jobs in the waste management sector are not being created, and human health and the
environment suffer. This is hard to defend in our present economic circumstances."
The Member States with the largest implementation gaps are Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech
Republic, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.
Failings include poor or non-existent waste prevention policies, a lack of incentives to divert
waste from landfills, and inadequate waste infrastructure. Heavy reliance on landfilling
means that better waste management options such as re-use and recycling are consistently
underexploited. The outlook is accordingly poor.
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden by contrast have
comprehensive waste collection systems and landfill less than 5% of their waste. They have
well developed recycling systems, sufficient treatment capacity, and they perform well with
biodegradable waste. Typically, they blend legal, administrative and economic instruments to
good effect in their waste management policies.
A number of Member States have made rapid progress from reliance on landfill to its virtual
elimination. But even the best performers face a number of challenges such as stepping up
waste prevention and addressing overcapacity in the incineration sector, which may hamper
recycling and require imports of waste to feed incinerators.
In January this year Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik announced that, according
to a European Commission study, full implementation of EU waste legislation would save
€72 billion a year, increase the annual turnover of the EU waste management and recycling
sector by €42 billion and create over 400,000 jobs by 2020. Illegal waste operations in
Member States are causing missed opportunities for economic growth, but stronger national
inspections and better knowledge about waste management would bring major
improvements.
Mr Potočnik said at the time:
"We need to see waste as a resource – and to bury that resource in the ground is worse
than short-sighted. This report shows that waste management and recycling can make a big
2. contribution to economic growth and job creation. If the existing legislation was implemented
properly, we could avoid costly clean-up operations, pollution and health problems. And let's
not forget that recycled materials are cheaper than virgin ones – and that they reduce
greenhouse gas emissions and our dependence on imports."
The study gave an in-depth analysis of the effects of better implementation and enforcement
and shows that benefits would be significant. It analysed a number of case studies in
Cyprus, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands to demonstrate economic, financial and
social benefits to Member States.
The EU's waste management and recycling sector is very dynamic, but still offers economic
opportunities with vast potential for expansion. In 2008, its €145 billion turnover represented
around 1% of the EU's GDP and 2 million jobs. Compliance with EU policy would help create
a sector with 2.4 million jobs and a total annual turnover of €187 billion.
The underlying problem is that too many prices do not reflect the true cost of disposal of
goods – if they did, this would help prevent waste in the first place. In addition, many
Member States still lack adequate infrastructure for separate collection, recycling and
recovery. An absence of systematic control and enforcement mechanisms is another
hindrance, coupled with a lack of reliable data on waste management.
The EU's economy uses 16 tonnes of materials per person per year, of which 6 tonnes
becomes waste, half of it going to landfill. Many Member States rely mainly on landfill as the
preferred waste management option. This situation persists in spite of existing EU waste
legislation and is unsustainable.
The Commission's Roadmap for Resource Efficiency sets out milestones for ensuring that
waste is managed as a resource by 2020 including through the revision of prevention, re-
use, recycling, recovery and landfill-diversion targets, and through the development of
markets for secondary and recycled materials.
The Commission is using the medal table report to prepare Roadmaps for the ten worst
performing Member States. These will be discussed with national authorities at bilateral
seminars this autumn, starting in Prague on 19 September. The Roadmaps will help spread
best practices and will contain tailor-made recommendations on how to improve waste
management using economic, legal and administrative tools, and EU structural funds.
The Commission is looking to use EU structural funds with a greater focus on the objectives
of EU waste policy. The proposed Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2014-2020 will
ensure that EU money is only invested in waste management projects if certain conditions
are met beforehand, including the development of Waste Management Plans in accordance
with the Waste Framework Directive and with the waste hierarchy, favouring prevention,
reuse and recycling over incineration with energy recovery, with landfilling or incineration
without energy recovery as a last resort.
The Parliamentary Year book will continue to report on environmental issues and their
impact on the UK and our European partners as we go through the months ahead.
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