News
30th of November 2016
STRADE publishes policy brief on voluntary initiatives, principles and criteria on environmental sustainability in mining
The STRADE team from Oeko published policy brief 07/2016 that reviews environmental principles and criteria in voluntary and legally non-binding initiatives with particular relevance for the ore mining sector.
31st of October 2016
STRADE publishes policy brief on socio-economic challenges
Oeko-Institut's STRADE team published another policy brief, no. 05/2016 (Outlining Socio - Economic Challenges in the Non - Fuel Mining Sector), addressing the socio-economic challenges related to the extraction process of mining.
30th of September 2016
STRADE publishes policy brief on environmental challenges
The STRADE team from Oeko-Institut published its first policy brief, no. 04/2016, reviewing environmental impacts and ecological challenges in raw material production.
European Commission published the presentations of the EU-U.S. Expert Workshop on Raw Material Flows & Data
15th of October 2012 by Stefanie Degreif
In the framework of the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC), a successful expert workshop was held between the EU and the U.S. on raw material flows and data on 12 and 13 September 2012 in Brussels. The workshop discussed how the European Union and the United States will explore steps to create a joint raw materials data inventory and other means to share raw materials data in the context of current policies on both sides to enable reliable and diverse raw materials supplies.
Please find the presentations held on the EU-U.S. Expert Workshop on Raw Material Flows & Data on the Webpage http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/raw-materials/documents/index_en.htm
Our colleague Georg Mehlhart gave the presentation “Better tracking of materials in waste – European Environmental law and raw material policies”. You can find the presentation here as well.