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An initiative of CDP, UN Global Compact, WRI and WWF, has released with the Mind the Science and Mind the Gap initiative a draft methodology for public comment how to set science-based emission reduction targets. This should ensure that reduction targets are staying under the the global 2° C temperature increase.

Such metholdologies might also be part of the next CDP methodologies.

For information and public comments please visit http://sciencebasedtargets.org/

Find out more: http://ec.europa.eu/clima/news/index_en.htm

Find out more: http://ec.europa.eu/clima/news/index_en.htm

An interview with Connie Hedegaard, the European Commissioner for Climate Action in 2013.

Further reading:
http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/hedegaard/index_de.htm
http://www.lse.ac.uk/home.aspx

Within the  framework for a Single Market for Green Products Initiative the European Union (EU) wants to provide with the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) and the Organisational Environmental Footprint (OEF) a range of methods and guides as well as initiatives to prove a products or companies green credentials.

To overcome the current stream of sometimes incomparable and diverse environmental information the Single Market for Green Products proposes the following steps:

• establishing two methods to measure environmental performance throughout the lifecycle (PEF; OEF)
• recommending the use of these methods to Member States, companies, private organisations and the financial community through a Commission Recommendation;
• it announces a three-year testing period to develop product- and sector-specific rules through a multi-stakeholder process;
• it provides principles for communicating environmental performance, such as transparency, reliability, completeness, comparability and clarity;
• it supports international efforts towards more coordination in methodological development and data availability.

(Source: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd/smgp/index.htm)

For the Product Environmental Footprint currently a draft methodology as well as pilots are currently in place (as of Aug 2014).

The draft document which is available as PDF and contains

• general considerations
• role of PEF category rules and requirments of developing those rules
• definition of the scope of the study
• compiling and recording the resource use and emission profile
• interpretation of PEF results
• PEF reports
• as well as several examples on documentation/data management plans/….

Further reading:
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd/smgp/index.htm

China plant die Einführung eines CO2-Handelssystems. In Vorbereitung auf den Handel mit Verschmutzungsrechten, sollen auch die größten Emittenten transparent erfasst werden. Noch ist Unklar, wie die Unternehmen die Daten liefer müssen. Es wird damit gerechnet, dass die Regelgung ab 2015 greift. Zudem könnte dies auch die Grundlage für Umweltsteuern auf CO2-Basis bilden.

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