New tool for promotion of energy management and cleaner production on no-cure no-pay

Even the enterprises with very advanced management systems often do not monitor efficiency of use of important energy and material flows within their processes and therefore, have difficulty to effectively manage their resource efficiency. This paper is built upon experiences from a pilot implementation of a new tool for promotion of energy...

Cleaner production capacity development in China's less developed regions (2008-2011): Analysis of an entrepreneurial cleaner production capacity development project’s critical success factors in China

This case study investigates the efforts of Centric Austria International (CAI) to successfully set-up service units in China's less developed regions between 2008 and 2010 in order to promote implementation of Cleaner Production (CP) practices. Relying on the project’s capacity development approach, the authors examine the critical success...