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Ecovillage: Environmental Atlas of Europe - Ireland
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Ten years ago, a group of people in Ireland came together to try to reduce their overall carbon footprint by building an ecological community. They looked at how they could incor-porate sustainability into every aspect of their lives – how they could build and power their houses, how they could earn their living, how they could travel and grow their food.
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Ecovillage
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Energy and environment: democratisation of power
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European Parliament - Joint Parliamentary Meeting on "Energy and Sustainable Development", presentation by Prof. Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director, European Environment Agency. Strasbourg, November 20 2008.
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Environmental topics
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Energy
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Multimedia
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Business and environment: Eco-technologies
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Green innovation for sustainable development.
The European Union’s environmental technologies industry is a promising industrial sector with a vast potential for growth. At present it employs more than 2 million people across the Union and has a market value of roughly €200 billion. The EU is a leading supplier of environmental technologies in the world, representing about one-third of the global market for these technologies. It is for their environmental benefits but also for their contribution to economic growth that the European Commission is actively promoting the development and the uptake of environmental technologies.
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Environmental topics
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Green economy
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50 years of protecting Europe's environment
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Today the European Union has the most environmentally friendly arsenal of rules in the world and has done more to tackle pressing ecological problems, such as climate change, than any other major power.
But it has not always been like this. Caring for the environment did not feature in the Treaty of Rome, the document that gave birth to the modern day EU. Yet environmental problems were never far away. Europe’s love affair with the car was moving into top gear, industry was busy belching out pollutants and raw sewage was being pumped into our rivers and seas.
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Environmental topics
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Policy instruments
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Multimedia
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EEA Technical report 8/2005 - Market-based instruments for environmental policy in Europe
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Publications
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EEA report 1/2006 - Using the market for cost-effective environmental policy
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Publications
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Sustainable use and management of natural resources
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Publications