Climate Change Programme

Under the European Climate Change Programme (ECCP) estimates were made for the production of bio-based polymers (and other bio-based materials) until 2010. According to these estimates bio-based polymers are expected to grow in the European Union from 25 kt in 1998 to 500 kt in 2010 without supportive policies and measures (P Ms) and to 1000 kt with P Ms [2]. Novamont expects that half or more than half of all bio-based produced in 2010 will be starch polymers, i.e. 250 to 500 kt. 

The EU Climate Change Programme, which has highlighted the importance of storing carbon in soils as a way to mitigate climate change (the more C in soils, the less CO2 in the atmosphere). 

European Climate Change Programme (ECCP), Long Report, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium 2001. 

ECCP (European Climate Change Programme), 2001, Long report, http //europa.eu.int/ comm/environment/climat/eccp longreport 0106.pdf, Brussels, Belgium. 

Improving education programmes for water professionals in potential climate change impacts and the effect of extreme rain events. 

P. J. Kuikman, Quantification of carbon fluxes in grassland. Report Nr. 410 100 047 of the Dutch National Research Programme on Global Air Pollution and Climate Change. RIVM, Bilthoven, p. 52 (1996). 

IPCC, 1995. IPCC Second Assessment Climate Change 1995, A Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, World Meteorological Organization and UN Environment Programme. 

United Nations Development Programme. Human Development Report 2007/2008— Fighting Climate Change Human Solidarity in a Divided World. UNDP 2008, p. 186. 

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. IPCC was established by the World Meterological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme to study and report on climate change and has the most extensive collection of information on the subject generally available. http //www.ipcc.ch/. Accessed on September 1, 2006. 

IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (1995) Summary for Policy Makers Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation Options. World Meteorological Organi2ation and United Nations Environment Programme. 

J.R. Kelly (1986). How might enhanced levels of solar UVB radiation affect marine ecosystems . In J.G. Titus (Ed.), Effects of Changes in Stratospheric Ozone and Global Climate Change, United Nations Environment Programme and US Environmental Protection Agency. 

As governmental bodies, the Ministries of Environment are the competent authority for the majority of activities related to environmental issues such as trans-boundary air and water pollution, troposphere ozone and climate change, for instance. The main task of a ministry on these issues is therefore to elaborate and implement the environment policy. As it is nearly everywhere within the Member States of the European Union, the ministries carry out only a few studies and analysis by themselves, but a lot of routine work is allocated to different administrations or institutions. This approach was not followed in some countries of the 10 and the research and international collaboration on different environmental programmes suffered for a... 

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