Übersetzung für "umweltschutz " (Deutsch → Englisch) :

In view of the sufficient experience gathered in the application of the Community guidelines on State aid for environmental protection, investment aid enabling undertakings to go beyond Community standards for environmental protection or increase the level of environmental protection in the absence of Community standards, aid for the acquisition of transport vehicles which go beyond Community standards or which increase the level of environmental protection in the absence of Community standards, aid for early adaptation to future Community standards by SMEs, environmental aid for investment in energy saving, environmental aid for investm ...[+++]ent in high efficiency cogeneration, environmental aid for investments to promote renewable energy sources including investment aid relating to sustainable biofuels, aid for environmental studies and certain aid in the form of reductions in environmental taxes should be exempt from the notification requirement.

Its aim will be to create the conditions in which the largest possible number of enterprises find an economic interest in improving their environmental performances and take account of these considerations in their management and development strategies. In particular, strengthening the partnership between local authorities and the private sector will be proposed, with a double aim: better integrating business in the preparation of environmental measures relating to production systems, and promoting business commitment in implementing such measures.

Accompanied by UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) Executive Director, Dr. Klaus Töpfer, and leading Indian environmental campaigner Ashok Khosla, Environment Commissioner Margot Wallström will open this year's Green Week on 2 June, at 11 a.m. The Commissioner will outline the objectives and highlights of Green Week and she will also emphasise the significant contribution that the UN and other stakeholders continue to make to the cause of global environmental protection.

-reaffirm the need for trade and environment policies to be mutually supportive in order to reinforce sustainable development both in the context of the WTO and in regional and interregional free trade agreements and for progress on trade and environment in the work of WTO and other fora and reaffirm that the multilateral trading system should accommodate, under clear and predictable rules, the use of trade measures taken in the framework of MEA's, since such measures can be necessary to achieve the objectives of the MEA; reaffirm that while an open multilateral trading system makes possible a more efficient use of natural resources, ef ...[+++]fective environmental policies and sustainable development strategies are needed in order to ensure that environmental benefits of trade liberalisation are realized and that trade induced growth will be sustainable; reaffirm that trade liberalisation can promote economic development, particularly for developing countries, and their greater integration into the world economy; and that states should avoid using environment based trade restrictions for protectionist purposes;

They go hand in hand with the objective of protecting the environment, and in particular help reduce CO2 and other emissions; 2. Being indigenous sources they contribute to reducing dependency of energy imports; 3. They are advanced technologies, which can play a role in revitalising sectors of European industry and contribute to competitiveness; 4. They generate employment, in particular in SMEs; 5. They are an important aspect of regional development and are well suited to decentralised energy systems; 6. Their development is favoured by the general public, in particular for environmental reasons; 7. They contribute to solving en ...[+++]ergy and environmental problems in developing countries, and at the same time provide export opportunities for European industry, which in many cases are world leaders as regards renewable energy technologies.

The measures supported by the ESF are described separately (e) Environmental protection (Subprogramme IV) (i) An undamaged environment forms part of the essential preconditions for making positive developments of any kind at all possible (ii) An undamaged environment also makes a region attractive as a place to live and thus prevents depopulation (iii) Optimum facilities for environmental protection are important as a basic condition for the establishment of businesses, since it is easier for new firms to decide to locate in an area if burdens on them in the form of environmental charges are kept small and the necessary infrastructure fo ...[+++]r environmental protection is made available by the public authorities (iv) Environmental protection measures have positive effects on structural change in agriculture too, since they offer new possibilities of part-time earnings for farmers and contribute towards helping to reduce the contradictions between negative environmental influences, tourism and the establishment of businesses.