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The public discussion about the Eco-Efficiency Analysis |
2005/06/21 BASF honored with Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for UV-curable primer
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded its coveted Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award to BASF’s Automotive Refinish Coatings business for the company’s eco-efficient UV-curable primer.
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Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (German parliamentary party): Eco-efficiency is an exemplary, innovative model
... In spite of a new attempt at dialogue, there are still conflicts of interest between the chemical industry and an environmental and health policy based on prevention. These must be discussed, not swept under the carpet. An exemplary, innovative model which helps to minimize this conflict between economy and ecology is the "Eco-Efficiency Analysis" of chemical products recently practiced by BASF. Here too, though, ecological and economic data must not be weighed up by the company alone, but in dialogue with society...
Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
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Telefon: 030/227-5 72 12/5 72 13
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E-Mail: presse@gruene-fraktion.de
Source: Pressemitteilung 0377/99 - Chemie im Dialog - BürgerInnen sollen die chemische Industrie beim Wort nehmen.
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Eco-efficiency symposium - BASF cooperates with the Wuppertal Institute
"Eco-efficiency - a bridge between the economy and the environment". It was under this slogan that BASF and the Wuppertal-Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie GmbH - an organization for climate, environment and energy issues - presented their eco-efficiency symposium in Mannheim, Germany on February 20, 2001. Company experts and environmental institutes discussed new application possibilities for eco-efficiency approaches, for instance, in the sectors of housing and construction, transportation or information technology. BASF began developing the Eco-Efficiency Analysis tool back in 1996. When assessing its product portfolio, BASF gives priority to the customer's benefit and looks at the product over its entire life cycle, from cradle to grave.
Over 100 environmental Eco-Efficiency Analysises performed
"What should the products of the future be like?" That is the question that can be answered by turning to BASF's Eco-Efficiency Analysis, which makes use of economic, environmental and social factors. On the basis of these analyses, the chemical company decides which products and processes it will invest in. "We have already carried out more than 100 analyses - more than half of them in cooperation with BASF customers - seven analyses for external companies in industry," explains Dr. Walter Seufert, President of the Environment, Safety & Energy Division of BASF Aktiengesellschaft. "Our environmental efficiency method can support the process of sustained, future-oriented development," Dr. Seufert goes on to say.
Now the Eco-Efficiency Analysises are to be further expanded. A new aspect is the cooperation with the Wuppertal Institute and with the Eco Institute - an environmental organization in Freiburg, Germany - as well as partnerships with associations and political circles. BASF has established contacts, among others, with the European Environmental Efficiency Initiative of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), which is where leading companies pursue this topic in political and scientific arenas. Furthermore, BASF is seeking additional collaborations on this topic in the business sector.
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Podium discussion with industry and science
At the eco-efficiency symposium, representatives of BASF, of the Wuppertal Institute as well as of various companies and organizations gave brief presentations on the development of eco-efficiency instruments for actual practice. A podium discussion provided a venue in which eco-efficiency approaches from corporate, political and scientific standpoints were elucidated. The participants were Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker of the Wuppertal Institute, Dr. Walter Seufert of BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Prof. Dr. Norbert Walter of Deutsche Bank AG, Dr. Rainer Grießhammer of the Eco Institute and Claude Fussler of DOW Europe. Application examples from corporate practice were presented in three workshops on housing, construction and chemistry, on mobility, transportation and chemistry as well as on information, electronics, communications and chemistry. Before the backdrop of their own sectors and products, participants were introduced to the instruments of Eco-Efficiency Analysis and had the opportunity to discuss the prerequisites for applying this tool to other practical cases.
Source: Press Release 067e / 2001, BASF Aktiengesellschaft
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