Promoting Community Wind Farming in Wales

The challenge:Onshore wind developments are often faced with strong local resistance. Be it due to aesthetic reasons, or noise concerns, wind energy is a common victim of the NIMBY (Not In My Back ...

Green Pre-commercial public procurement at the Stockholm County Council

The challengeThe Stockholm County Council (SCC) first introduced pre-commercial sustainable procurement when looking for new eco-friendly ambulances in 2005. The main driver for the new ...

INNOV’R – boosting eco-innovation in the French Rhône-Alpes region

The challengeINNOV’R project funding is open to microenterprises, small industry and SMEs. It is in particular these kind of companies that face difficulties when it comes to ...

One company’s waste is another’s raw material: National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP)

NISP was created to tackle the problem of knowledge and information gaps concerning resource efficiency and a circular economy in the business sector.It is tasked to reduce information market failure ...

The 4BIOMASS Transnational Action Plan for Bioenergy in Central Europe

The challenge:Energy from biomass accounts for almost two thirds of the renewable energy generation in the European Union. Unlike other renewable energy sources though, biomass is a limited resource, ...

Western Cape Industrial Symbiosis Programme (WISP)

The challenge:Globally, the unsustainable use of resources has triggered critical scarcities and caused climate change and widespread environmental degradation. Driven by these concerns, (coupled with...
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