The Importance of Pollution Control for the Acceptance of Waste Treatment Facilities

In the early years the main aim was improving the standard of landfilling. The landfill was intended as a technical building, including a system of multiple protective barriers, working independently of each other. The focus was on turning waste itself into an effective barrier by pretreatment. Waste should be largely mineralized and it was expected, that it was no longer able to cause chemical reactions which resulted in problematic emissions in the environment.

Later on, the focus was expanded. After a phase of recovery of energy and/or raw materials - but in which the possible potentials were not sufficiently exhausted - climate protection after all became a political objective in the forefront of regulation. The formation of methane at landfills can be significantly reduced or brought to zero by waste treatment, such as waste incineration. Methane has a high greenhouse gas potential. Currently, the factor of 28 is assumed compared to CO2 of fossil origin.

 

 

Rechtliche und praktische Unsicherheiten bei der Durchführung des europäischen Klimaanpassungsrechts durch das Bundes- Klimaanpassungsgesetz (KAnG)
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In the context of the European Climate Law (EU) 2021/1119), the Governance Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 and the Nature Restoration Regulation (EU) 2024/1991, the KAnG came into force on July 1, 2024.

Transformatives Klimarecht: Raum, Zeit, Gesellschaft
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This article contends that climate law should be conceived as inherently transformative in a double sense. The law not only guides the necessary transformation of economy and society, but is itself undergoing transformation.

Maßnahmen zur Klimaanpassung sächsischer Talsperren
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Die Landestalsperrenverwaltung des Freistaates Sachsen (LTV) betreibt aktuell insgesamt 87 Stauanlagen, darunter 25 Trinkwassertalsperren. Der Stauanlagenbestand ist historisch gewachsen und wurde für unterschiedliche Zwecke errichtet.

 

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