Links dealing with environmental protection

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	EU Commission on Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases The EU Commission, DG Environment, informs the general public and interested stakeholders on the European F-Gas legislation. The website includes the Directive 2006/40/EC on the HFC-134a phase-out in passenger cars, the 2006 F-Gas Regulation including implementing acts (Commission Regulations). Amongst others, recent EU studies on F-Gas emissions are published here.
	UN Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC The secretariat of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) located in Bonn, Germany, is one of the most important political institutions in the time between the several world climate summits. It provides special pages for official and semi-official documents of the different Parties of the Kyoto Protocol, as well as it provides pages (pursuant decision 13/CP.4) to assist intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations in making and viewing submissions on available and potential ways and means of limiting emissions of greenhouse gases.
	UNEP DTIE OzonAction Branch Of special interest is the current list of reports from the Assessment Panels, Technical Options Committees, Working Groups and Ad Hoc Committees established under the Montreal Protocol to accelerate the worldwide cfc phase out.
	UNEP DTIE Chemicals Branch UNEP DTIE (Division of Technology, Industry and Economics) Chemicals Branch (Geneva), is the center for all chemicals-related activities of the United Nations Environment Programme. It promotes sustainable development by catalysing global actions and building national capacities for the sound management of chemicals and the improvement of chemical safety world-wide, with a priority on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).
	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC Recognizing the problem of potential global climate change the WMO and the UNEP established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988. The role of the IPCC is to assess the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change. Click here to download the *2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories*.
	AFEAS The Alternative Fluorocarbons Environmental Acceptability Study, provided by 11 chemical companies concludes that the ozone depletion potentials (ODPs) and global warming potentials (GWPs) of HCFCs and HFCs are much smaller than those for the CFCs. Very useful are the annual AFEAS production, sales, and emissions data for 10 cfcs, hcfcs and the hfc 134a, available for download.
	EU law on Environment Useful: Directory of Community legislation in force: Environment, consumers and health protection. Valuable is also the access to the Official Journal of the EU, including drafts and final editions of regulations and directives..

	German Federal Environmental Agency The German Federal Environmental Agency has to provide the Federal Government with scientific support in all questions relating to immission control and soil protection, refuse and water management, the health issues involved in environmental protection - especially in preparing legal and administrative regulations, as well as to to help in the coordination of the Federal environmental research activities.

	Greenpeace International Greenpeace is a global environmental campaigning organisation. It organises public campaigns for the protection of oceans and ancient forests, for the phasing-out of fossil fuels and the promotion of renewable energies in order to stop climate change, for the elimination of toxic chemicals, against the release of genetically modified organisms into nature and for nuclear disarmament and an end to nuclear contamination.
	WWF Known worldwide by its panda logo, WWF is one of the world's largest and most experienced independent conservation organization with 4.7 million supporters and a global network active in some 100 countries. WWF's mission is to protect nature and the biological diversity that we all need to survive.

	Institute for Social-Ecological Research ISOE Scientists from various areas of the natural and social sciences work together at in an interdisciplinary approach to environmental research. The starting point of the research work is the observation that societal action, and natural interconnections, mutually penetrate one another.
	ECO-Portal The Eco-portal is the Internet's most comprehensive environmental resource ever, linking and providing full text search capabilities for the entire contents of over 3,000 reviewed Internet sites related to environmental sustainability. The site tracks the latest environmental news stories which are updated several times daily.
	ECOFYS An internationally operating company with offices in Utrecht (the Netherlands), Cologne, Nuremberg (Germany), Poznan (Poland) and Brussels (Belgium) working on a renewable energy supply. A cleaner environment should be achieved by a more efficient use of energy and the use of renewable energy. It is from this point of view that a staff of some 150 professionals works within the fields of Solar heat, Solar power in the built environment, Wind energy, etc. Some professionals conduct research in the field of Energy and Environmental Policy. Their studies on greenhouse gas emission potentials, especially those relating fluorinated gases, have set scientific standards within Europe.
	oekoweb.at ÖKOWEB - central environmental portal of Austria.

	Heike Leitschuh Author, moderator and consultant for sustainable development. Aereas of expertise: Development of sustainable corporate strategy (stakeholder-analysis). Corporate Responsibility (CR). Organization and leading of stakeholder-dialogues with a result-oriented design. Environment/sustainability communication for companies and organisations. Strategy and mission development processes in companies. Local Agenda processes in municipalities. Conferences, panel discussions. Moderation in situations of conflict. Lectures on the topics set out above.

	Environmental Science and Pollution Research - International ESPR serves the international community in all areas of Environmental Science and related subjects with emphasis on chemical compounds. It reports from a broad interdisciplinary outlook. Apart from the strictly scientific contributions as research articles (short and full papers) and reviews, ESPR publishes: news & views from research and technology, legislation and regulation, hardware and software, education, literature, institutions, organizations, conferences.
	JOT - Journal für Oberflächentechnik Main topics of this technical journal are painting and cleaning metal surfaces. Already in the middle of the eighties it picked out as central themes on applicators side: the reduction of solvents in lacquers and the trend to powder coating, and in the surface cleaning the switch from open applicated chlorinated solvents to closed solvent systems and to water-based cleaning systems.
	Die Kälte + Klimatechnik No other occupational group has been confronted more intensively since the middle of the eighties with ozone depletion and greenhouse effect then the refrigeration plant assemblers. This is because of the refrigerants. First the cfc refrigerants were banned step by step, then the chlorine free substitutes were critisized and controlled, too, because of their climate impact. The debate about the suitable refrigerants has been reflected since many years in this journal. .