The Importance of Pollution Control for the Acceptance of Waste Treatment Facilities

In the early years the main aim was improving the standard of landfilling. The landfill was intended as a technical building, including a system of multiple protective barriers, working independently of each other. The focus was on turning waste itself into an effective barrier by pretreatment. Waste should be largely mineralized and it was expected, that it was no longer able to cause chemical reactions which resulted in problematic emissions in the environment.

Later on, the focus was expanded. After a phase of recovery of energy and/or raw materials - but in which the possible potentials were not sufficiently exhausted - climate protection after all became a political objective in the forefront of regulation. The formation of methane at landfills can be significantly reduced or brought to zero by waste treatment, such as waste incineration. Methane has a high greenhouse gas potential. Currently, the factor of 28 is assumed compared to CO2 of fossil origin.

 

 

Hochlauf der Wasserstoffwirtschaft
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Überblick über und Diskussion der Maßnahmen zum beschleunigten Ausbau der Wasserstoffinfrastruktur in Deutschland

Die innerstaatliche Umsetzung des Pariser Klimaschutzübereinkommens - ein Rechtsvergleich
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Like all public international law treaties, the Paris Climate Accords rely on national law for their implementation. The success of the agreement therefore depends, to a large extent, on the stepstaken or not taken by national governments and legislators as well as on the instruments and mechanisms chosen for this task. Against this background, the present article compares different approaches to the implementation of the Paris Agreement, using court decisions as a means to assess their (legal) effectiveness.

Klimaschutzrecht und Erzeugung erneuerbarer Energien in der Schweiz
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Verschachtelte Gesetzgebung unter politischer Ungewissheit

 

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