Understanding Markets is the initial process. Here you find our understanding of current condition of the environmental impacts. All information leads us to a common awarness and show solutions, how to solve existing problems.
Arab Region
At the beginning of the 21st century, clearly the most striking issue facing the world today is that of the environment. Environmental problems have featured heavily in scientific warnings, political agendas, public concern, and media attention.
The Arab region is not isolated from the rest of the world when it comes to this issue. The Arab world has undergone huge changes in the last century. Its population has risen from below 50 million a century ago to over 325 million today. During this same period, the environment has degraded and natural resources have decreased, due to development patterns, which were largely unsustainable.
In most cases, policies were overwhelmingly sets of provisional short-term measures, meant to manage momentary challenges rather than engage in long-term planning. Some parts of the region have seen unprecedented growth, bringing both economic and social wealth to millions of Arabs during the last decades, thanks, largely, to the rising income from oil. Has this economic development, however, come at a cost?
Can the patterns of development which some Arab countries are experiencing continue, while sustaining livelihood and quality of life for future generations? We have doubts about it. Today, the state of the Arab environment stands at a radical juncture, with numerous environmental problems both current and forthcoming threatening the region. At the same time, awareness of the issues, as well as signs of political and social willingness to act, provide hope for timely intervention
Climate Change
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the so-called greenhouse gases. When rays of sun hit the earth, a part of the radiation is reflected by the earth’s surface. Due to the so-called greenhouse gases, part of the resulting heat radiation can no longer escape into the atmosphere and contributes to global warming. The greenhouse effect and global warming are a natural process, which has, however, been increased by humans since the beginning of industrialization.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations fears more frequent heavy precipitation, the melting of glaciers, a decrease of snow-covered surfaces, the accelerated deterioration of the Arctic Circle and a resulting increase in sea levels as consequences of increased global warming.
Recycling
A study (2008) by Fraunhofer Institute, Germany, compares the C02 performance of the respective primary and secondary production of the material flows of steel, aluminum, copper, paper, polyethylene (PE), polyethylene terephtalate (PET), glass and wood with each another.
The entire production chain of the mentioned product types was thereby taken into account. Any carbon dioxide emissions by transport are considered additionally.
For all materials, the study established a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions in the recycling process as compared to the primary process itself.
