References

2020-2023

Anchoring sustainable chemistry in chemicals management: Development of milestones and indicators for international chemicals management after 2020. Commissioned by: Federal Environment Agency. Contractors are N³ Nachhaltigkeitsberatung Dr. Friege & Partner, Voerde (project lead), and the Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP), Wuppertal, as well as in a subcontract the BZL GmbH and the Akademie Dr. Obladen, Berlin.

• Friege H., Heidbüchel E., Zeschmar-Lahl B. (2024): Indicators for sustainable management of chemicals. Contributions to upcoming development work under the new Global Framework for Chemicals. Ed.: Umweltbundesamt.
  • UBA-Texte 78/2024 (German)
  • UBA-Texte 79/2024 (English)

• SAICM website of the Federal Environment Agency 

2018-2020

Waste co-incineration in cement plants (in German with English summary). Expert report on behalf of the Federal Environment Agency. Authors: Zeschmar-Lahl B. (project lead), Schönberger H., Waltisberg J., UBA-Texte 202/2020.

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2019

Interfaces between chemicals, product and waste legislation. Cooperation project with Henning Friege, Beate Kummer, Klaus-Günter Steinhäuser and Joachim Wuttke.

• Friege H., Kummer B., Steinhäuser K.-G., Wuttke J., Zeschmar-Lahl B.: Tricky Relationships: Chemicals, Waste and Product Legislation. elni Review 2019, 39-40, ISSN 1618-2502.
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• Friege H., Kummer B., Steinhäuser K.-G., Wuttke J., Zeschmar-Lahl B.: How should we deal with the interfaces between chemicals, product and waste legislation? Environmental Sciences Europe volume 31, Article number: 51 (2019).
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• Friege H., Kummer B., Steinhäuser K.-G., Wuttke J., Zeschmar-Lahl B.: Umgang mit Schnittstellen zwischen Chemikalien-, Produkt- und Abfallrecht. AbfallR 2, 66-82, 2019
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2018-2019

Hazardous Substances in the “Circular Economy”. Cooperation project with Henning Friege und Andreas Borgmann (in German).

• Zeschmar-Lahl B., Friege H., Borgmann A.: Gefährliche Stoffe in der „Circular Economy“: III. Photovoltaik-Module auf Basis von Cadmiumtellurid. Müll und Abfall 2, 90-98, 2019.
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• Borgmann A., Friege H., Zeschmar-Lahl B.: Gefährliche Stoffe in der „Circular Economy“: II. Cadmium in PVC-Fensterprofilen. Müll und Abfall 1, 38-41, 2019.
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• Friege H., Zeschmar-Lahl B., Borgmann A.: Gefährliche Stoffe in der „Circular Economy“: I. Ni/Cd-Akkumulatoren. Müll und Abfall 12, 626–632, 2018.
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• Managing Cd Containing Waste – Caught by the Past, the Circular Economy Needs New Answers. Short study. Authors: Friege, H.; Zeschmar-Lahl, B.; Borgmann, A. Recycling 2018, 3, 18, doi:10.3390/recycling3020018
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2015-2017

UFOPLAN project Bundling of Expertise in the area of Sustainable Chemistry: Conceptualization and Establishment of an International Sustainable Chemistry Collaborative Centre, project number 3715 65 499 0, together with N³ Nachhaltigkeitsberatung Dr. Friege & Partner, Voerde, and DECHEMA, Frankfurt:

• Friege, H., Förster, A., Zeschmar-Lahl, B.: Bundling of Expertise in the area of Sustainable Chemistry: Conceptualization and Establishment of an International Sustainable Chemistry Collaborative Centre. UBA-Texte 110/2017
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• Bazzanella A., Friege H., Zeschmar-Lahl B.: Identification of Priority Topics in the Field of Sustainable Chemistry. UBA-Texte 83/2017.
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• Zeschmar-Lahl B.: Sustainability initiatives and approaches in the chemical sector. UBA-Texte 82/2017.
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• Friege, H., Zeschmar-Lahl, B.: Beneficiary contributions of the concept of Sustainable Chemistry to the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management beyond 2020 – Policy paper as stimulus for the lunch dialogue during the First Meeting of the SAICM Intersessional Process in Brasilia, 7-9 February 2017.
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• Fröhlich, T., Zeschmar-Lahl, B.: The link between sustainable chemistry and sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle, with a view beyond 2020 and for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. March, 2017

2016

Promoting biodiversity at cemeteries. Assessment Report. Ed.: Wiener Stadtwerke, Authors: Lahl R., Zeschmar-Lahl B., Wien, November 2014 (English version: 216)

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2014-2016

Background Report on Best Environmental Management Practice in the Waste Management Sector. Preparatory findings to support the development of an EMAS Sectoral Reference Document. Report for the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. Authors: Zeschmar-Lahl B. (project lead), Schoenberger H., Styles D., Galvez-Martos J.-L., May, 2016.

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2013

Lahl, U., Zeschmar-Lahl, B. (2013): Risk based management of chemicals and products in a circular economy at a global scale (risk cycle), extended producer responsibility and EU legislation. Environ Sci Eur 25, 3, 2013.

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Lahl U., Zeschmar-Lahl B. (2013): RISKCYCLE and EU Legislation. In: Bilitewski B., Darbra R.M., Barceló D. (Eds.): Global Risk-Based Management of Chemical Additives II. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry 23, 137-152, 2013.

Lahl U., Zeschmar-Lahl B. (2012): RISKCYCLE and EU Legislation. RISKCYCLE – Risk Based Management of Chemicals and Products in a Circular Economy at a Global Scale. Beiträge zu Abfallwirtschaft/Altlasten Band 87, 201-212, 2012.

2013

Regulatory proposals for the European Parliament’s deliberations on the new EU legislation on iLUC (indirect Land Use Change). The regulatory proposals offered here for download were prepared for these discussions and have been dealt with in the EP. The strength of these proposals lies in the fact that iLUC would be tackled at the roots of the problem in a “polluter pays” manner – in countries where rain forest clearing and the conversion of carbon-rich land is practised. Download:

• Regulation proposal (English)
• Regulation proposal (French)

Lahl U.: ”Indirect Land Use Change” (iLUC). A critical inventory for objective political decision-making. ReSource 4, 39‐46, 2013.

• Actualized version, edited by ufop

Pieprzyk B., Lahl U. (2013): Looking back – an analysis of the development of the agricultural production and deforestation worldwide: an article on the current global iLUC-discussion. International Journal of Technology 1: 1-14, 2013

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2012-2013

Success control of climate-relevant measures of waste management in waste associations of the Free State of Saxony (in German). R+D project on behalf of the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology (LfULG), Dresden, in cooperation with BIWA Consult, Freiberg, and Prof. Manfred Born (emer.), Freiberg, November 2012. Publications series of the LfULG, issue 3/2013

• Publication series of the LfULG, issue 3/2013 (in German)

2012

Lahl U., Pieprzyk B. (2012): iLUC – risks, remedies and regulations: The role of good governance for a sustainable development. Journal of Oil Palm &The Environment 3, 98-106, 2012.

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2011

Lahl U.: An analysis of iLUC and biofuels. Regional quantification of climate-relevant land use change and options for combating it. Sugar Industry 136 No. 4, 224-228, 2011

2011

Going Green: Chemistry. Fields of action for a resource-efficient chemical industry. Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin (Ed.): Publication Series on Ecology Vol 19, 2011/2012

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2010

An Analysis of iLUC and Biofuels. Regional quantification of climate-relevant land use change and options for combating it. Study prepared for BDBe e.V. and UFOP e.V., 29.10.2010.

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2007-2008

Climate relevance and energy efficiency. Studies on the climate relevance of waste management in the waste associations of the Free State of Saxony (in German). R+D project on behalf of the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology, Dresden, in cooperation with BIWA Consult, Freiberg, and Prof. Manfred Born (emer.), Freiberg. Free State of Saxony, State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology (ed.), 2009

• Report (in German)

2003-2005

Collaboration in the research project Analysis of the light fraction by incineration (ALV) at the Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien), Institute of Water Quality and Resource Management (IWA), Univ. Prof. Dr. Paul H. Brunner

• Entry in the research portal TISS

2004

Solid Recovered Fuels – Report on Occupational Safety and Health Aspects (OSHA-Report). Report for CEN TC 343. Prepared for DIN e.V. – Koordinierungsstelle Umweltschutz im DIN, 2004

2001-2003

Climate relevance of waste management in the Free State of Saxony (in German). Expert opinion commissioned by the Saxon State Office for Environment and Geology, Dresden, in cooperation with BIWA Consult, Freiberg.

• Report on work package 1 (in German)
• Report on work package 2 (in German)
• Report on work package 3 (in German)

2001

Ecodumping by Energy Recovery. A Report on Distortions of Environmental Standards between Disposal and Recovery and approaches to overcome them. Study prepared for the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Brussels, January 2001.

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1999

Current life cycle assessments on the material PVC – a critical review (in German). Study commissioned by GREENPEACE Germany, 1999.

• Study (in German)

Exhaust air emissions from mechanical-biological waste treatment in Austria (in German). Authors: Lahl U., Zeschmar-Lahl B., Scheidl K., Scharf W. Konrad W., Hrsg.: BMUJF, UBA-Monograph No. 104, Wien, 1998.

• Monopraph M-104 (in German)

1997

Residual waste co-incineration in plants for cement production (in German). Authors: Lahl U., Zeschmar-Lahl B., Stubenvoll J., study commissioned by the Federal Environment Agency, Vienna, UBA report BE-097, September 1997.

• UBA report BE-097 (in German)