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SERI InfoMailwelcome to the 3rd edition of SERI's InfoMail in 2010!
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SERI Highlight
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New research findings and problem solving approaches
Can Austria reach current energy and climate goals by 2020? The
research institute SERI along with its partners tried to figure out
answers to this question in the e-co project by order of the “Klima- und
Energiefonds (Climate and Energy Fund)”. On the one hand, they examined
how necessary changes in Austrian energy consumption could look like
and on the other hand they analyzed the resulting effects on the
economy. Therefore, different scenarios with diverse foci were
developed, such as expansion of renewable energy, increase in efficiency
and reduction of consumption through behavioral change. Results are
disillusioning. Only one of the scenarios achieves the target of a 34%
renewable energy share of final energy consumption by 2020. Not a single
scenario provides a decrease in CO2-emissions below the level of 1990
(62,08m tons CO2) – the Kyoto emission target for Austria would be 13%
below the level of 1990. However, the transition towards sustainable
forms of energy use has a positive effect on the GDP as well as on
employment rates.
Read more on www.seri.at/
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SERI News
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CEECEC Newsletter
The third Newsletter (June 2010) of the SERI project CEECEC has been published. Inside you will find: news on the CEECEC Ecological Economic Course, new case studies, CEECEC and degrowth, and much more. Read the newsletter here
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Stephan Lutter at The Steady State Economy Conference
On 19 June the conference took place in Leeds and brought together
NGOs, academics, businesses, politicians, the media, and the general
public to explore an ecologically and socially responsible alternative
to economic growth: the steady state economy.
Keynote presentations included Peter Victor, Andrew Simms, Jan O’Neill, Tim Jackson. Stephan Lutter hold a workshop on Limiting resource use and waste production.
Conference Details.
Eva Burger on the 41st LCA Discussion Forum on Environmental product information and LCA
At the discussion forum successful examples of environmental product information covering more than carbon footprints were presented and discussed. Furthermore the reaction of consumers on such information and the best ways of providing complicated interrelations in a simplified way were evaluated. The presentations for the forum are now online and you can find them on http://www.lcainfo.ch/df/DF41/Program.htm.
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SERI Projects
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Project EACH-FOR presented in “Hommes & Migrations”
Jill Jäger took part in the presentation of the SERI-Project EACH-FOR in the french journal “Hommes & Migrations”. “Hommes & Migrations” is the leading French journal on migration issues, and has a wide audience in the francophone world.
In this special issue, one will find :
- 6 articles drawing upon EACH-FOR fieldwork, translated in French
(Bangladesh, Hispaniola, Kyrgyzstan, Mozambique, Inner Mongolia,
Morocco);
- 2 supplementary articles on Senegal and Ghana (also by Kees Van der Geest, but different from EACH-FOR);
- a unique interview with both Jean-François Durieux and Philippe
Boncour, reflecting on the respective roles of UNHCR and IOM;
- a general presentation of the project by Jill Jäger, Han Entzinger and Francois Gemenne.
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“Overconsumption” now available in Spanish
In 2008, SERI established a cooperation with the environmental NGOs GLOBAL 2000 and Friends of the Earth Europe on the issue of “Europe’s Resource Use”. We consider that it is essential for sustainable development in Europe that a debate is started about our resource use and its environmental and social impacts around the world.
In order to help this debate, we presented a report in 2009, entitled “Overconsumption? Our use of the world’s natural resources”. This report provides a compilation of information on current trends in European and global resource use.
The report has now been translated into Spanish by Friends of the Earth Spain.
Download the report “Overconsumption? Our use of the world’s natural resources” in English, German or in Spanish.
MELIA project – SERI publishes Leaflet in English and Arabic
The MELIA project aims at establishing a strategic dialogue between experts, scientists, consumers and producers on integrated water ressource management in the Mediteranean region. It is hence of greatest importance to make sure that project results, elaborated documents, etc are disseminated not only within the MELIA community, and not only in the English speaking part of the Mediterranean. Consequently, one of the deliverables foreseen for the workpackage 7 on Water Participatory Management and Water Governance with SERI as the workpackage leader was a leaflet informing of the most important conceptual issues, the main project outcomes and results. This leaflet was prepared in English and Arabic and can be downloaded here.
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Publications
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Article about WEINKLIM findings published in DER WINZER
DER WINZER, the largest journal regarding winegrowing in German speaking countries, published an article of Eva Burger, Ines Omann, Sigrid Grünberger and the WEINKLIM-project partners in its latest issue. The article (title: “Ansatzpunkte zur Verringerung von Treibhausgasen”) deals with the results of SERI’s project WEINKLIM including the carbon footprint analysis of vine and possible mitigation and adaptation measures. Details
The first Atlas of Biodiversity Risk is published
The Atlas is addressed to a wide spectrum of users. Scientists
will find summaries of well-described methods, approaches and case
studies. Conservationists and policy makers will use the conclusions and
recommendations based on academic research output and presented in a
comprehensive and easy-to-read way. Lecturers and teachers will find
good examples to illustrate the main challenges in our century of global
environmental changes. The Atlas is an indispensible tool to any
library or institution in biodiversity and environmental sciences.
Finally, all people concerned with environmental issues will find the
Atlas a powerful weapon in their fight for saving the life on our
Planet!
For further publications please check www.seri.at/publications
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