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2012-05-14NEWS |The IVL-lead project RECO Baltic 21 Tech (RB21T) has been announced as both a Flagship project and a Lighthouse project. As such the project has the potential to take on a prominent role in the future development of new policy recommendations.
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2012-05-11PRESS RELEASE |The National Property Board Sweden has given IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute an assignment to study the indoor air quality at the Swedish Embassy and staff quarters in Beijing.
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2012-05-03NEWS |Under an EU directive, the recovery rate of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) shall be at least 95 percent by 2015. IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute is now studying this area as part of a project undertaken jointly with Chalmers Industrial Technology (CIT) and Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg (CTH).
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2012-04-20NEWS |IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute has taken the initiative to establish a Swedish resource efficiency platform. Bringing together business, public bodies and researchers, this will contribute to information exchange and knowhow development in the field. "At present, there is a lack of coordination regarding these issues, which are vital to most Swedish companies, and the new platform will play an important role in this respect," comments Uwe Fortkamp
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2012-04-13NEWS |The project RECO Baltic 21 Tech (RB21T) has now become a flagship project to make the Baltic Sea Region a prosperous place to live. It is one of many projects of the Baltic Sea Region Programme aiming to fulfill the aims of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region.
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2012-04-02NEWS |Up to 60 percent of the phosphorus that leaches from agricultural land and is conveyed through ditches can be intercepted by ditch dams and ditch filters. This is the finding of a research project designed to mitigate the problem of eutrophication in the Baltic Sea by trapping phosphorus leakage close to its source. Nutrients leaching from farmland are affecting the Baltic severely in the form of algal growth and dead zones.
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2012-03-26NEWS |In its first year, Reco Baltic 21 Tech (RB21T), the EU-funded research programme dealing with sustainable waste management in the Baltic region, has begun to establish a comprehensive knowledge bank for the entire sector in the region. "The database will be of major benefit in creating new business opportunities in the Baltic region in the waste management and environmental technology areas — which is one aim of the project," explains Åsa Stenmarck, RB21T project manager at IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute.
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2012-03-12NEWS |A scenario describing the possible structure of an energy system based on renewable sources in Sweden in 2050 has been developed by IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute as part of a research project. The scenario provides an independent basis for the Swedish report entitled Hållbar energi —100% förnybar energi på naturens villkor (Sustainable energy — 100% renewable energy on nature´s terms) published by WWF on 27 September 2011.
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2012-03-01NEWS |Researchers at IVL Swedish Environmental Institute have developed methods to calculate the total emissions of greenhouse gas connected to the production at one of the world's biggest pulp and paper industry in Indonesia. The methods are based on ISO standards and the European Pulp and Paper Industry - CEPI's own handbook for Carbon Footprints. The calculations also include the absorption and emission of carbon dioxide from the soil used for the production of raw wood material.
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2012-02-27NEWS |After a 25-year presence in the country, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute is now beginning to regard China as its second ‘domestic market´ outside the EU. For many years, most of IVL's Chinese assignments were more or less in the nature of aid programmes administered by the EU or the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). Now, with assignments being commissioned directly by Chinese agencies, IVL is growing organically in China itself.
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