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    Local Stategies for Land Management according to Kyoto Protocol. Exploring New Management Tools for Co2 Sequestration in Agricultuural Lands and Forests.

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    he Kyoto Protocol promotes and encourages new strategies for land manage-ment oriented to carbon sequestration and greenhouse gases removal. In or-der to make these strategies the most effective, a large scale implementation at local, regional and national level is requested. Therefore administrative au-thorities responsible for land management shall individualize these strategies and operates for planning choices in coherence with the aims of Kyoto Protocol. Within this frame European regions can play a new role, not already foreseen in the ac-tual Kyoto commitments and strategies, but desirable for the development of new ap-proaches evolving from the bottom up. If so, supported by the scientific community, Re-gions could test small-scale policy experiments at the local level so to contribute to com-bat climate change and adapt to its unavoidable consequences, and at the same time to allow local population to benefit directly of the environmental policies. The Carbon-Pro project supplies public authorities responsible for land planning with useful and easily suitable tools for transferring some concepts of the Kyoto Protocol and carbon sequestration into local and regional land planning strategies. This is also the meaning of the Agreement on local management strategies for Carbon sequestration, signed in Lubljana within Carbon-Pro and focused on the creation of local carbon markets

    Evaluation of the sustainability of energy recovery from automobile shredder residue (ASR): an italian case study

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    Social and economic progress and development of new technologies have caused a progressive shortening of car’s lifecycle and a subsequent increase of the amount of relative waste. Actually, despite that car is one of the goods with the higher percentage of recycling, the amount of hardly re-usable polymeric and composite species (ASR) cannot find a different placement but landfills, causing relevant disposal costs and generating a significant environmental impact, due to the highly-toxic substances in many of their components and fluids. In this issue we studied the supply chain for recovering disused vehicles in the Italian Region of Friuli Venezia-Giulia and its conclusion by means of an energy recovery. Plant capacity of addressing the more and more restrictive limits on emissions and air quality has been studied, after having evaluated the fall-outs on the groun
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