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Environmental and Trade Effects of Eco-Labelling (환경(環境)마크제도(制度)(Eco-Labelling)의 환경(環境) 및 무역효과(貿易效果))

  • Kim, Yeong-Saeng
    • Clean Technology
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.24-34
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    • 1998
  • Eco-labelling programs contributed to the promotion of international trade of environmentally friendly products. However, it has potential trade implications. From the WTO's point of view, environmental measures relevant to eco-labelling should not discriminate between home produced goods and imported goods. Transparency should be guaranteed in preparation, adoption and application of eco-labelling. Developed countries address that eco-labelling of non-product PPM criteria is included in the provisions of TBT of WTO. However, there are more general afraids that non-product PPM-based eco-labelling can be unfairly discriminately trade measures without transparency Thus, transparency of procedures of eco-labelling, harmonization and mutual recognition of eco-labelling criteria, and technical assistance should be recommended in order to reduce trade-discriminating effects of eco-labelling.

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International Standardization Analysis for Environmental Management and Labelling (국제환경경영 표준화와 환경라벨링의 동향)

  • Cho, Jai-Rip
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.180-189
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    • 1995
  • Today, as globalization continues and international trading blocks are formed, world markets are intensely competitive and abound in product variety, volume, complexity and environmental management. Specifically, green consumer's needs and expectations are changing and diversifying, resulting in a changed global environment for industry. Due to these changes, domestic companies are striving to achieve the Environmental Management System (ISO 14000) certification. This is considered a basis step in meeting the guiding principle and practice of ISO/TC 207/SC 3 resolution. In this paper, we will present three type(I, II, III) of Environmental Labelling programs to build a model for environmental management system by analysing practitioner and stakeholder. After companies establish an ISO 9000 quality system these companies should focus on improve toward their own Environmental Labelling program and continue to build ISO 14000.

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Chemical Classification Based on Environmental and Health Toxicity and Implementation for GHS (화학물질의 독성에 근거한 분류체계 및 GHS 도입을 위한 대응방안)

  • Lim Young-Wook;Yang Ji-Yeon;Lee Yong-Jin;Shim Dong-Chun
    • Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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    • v.21 no.2 s.53
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    • pp.197-208
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    • 2006
  • The hazards of chemicals can be classified using classification criteria that are based on physical, chemical and ecotoxicological endpoints. These criteria may be developed be iteratively, based on scientific or regulatory processes. A number of national and international schemes have been developed over the past 50 years, and some, such as the UN Dangerous Goods system or the EC system for hazardous substances, are in widespread use. However, the unnecessarily complicated multiplicity of existing hazard classifications created much unnecessary confusion at the user level, and a recommendation was made at the 1992 Rio Earth summit to develop a globally harmonized chemical hazard classification and compatible labelling system, including material safety data sheets and easily understandable symbols, that could be used for manufacture, transport, use and disposal of chemical substances. This became the globally harmonized system for the Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS). The developmental phase of the GHS is largely complete. Consistent criteria for categorizing chemicals according to their toxic, physical, chemical and ecological hazards are now available. Consistent hazard communication tools such as labelling and material safety data sheets are also close to finalizations. The next phase is implementation of the GHS. The Intergovernmental Forum for Chemical Safety recommends that all countries implement the GHS as soon as possible with a view to have the system fully operational by 2008. When the GHS is in place, the world will finally have one system for classification of chemical hazards.

The Work on Harmonization of Classification and Labelling in OECD (OECD의 화학물질 분류체계 통일화 방향)

  • 김필제
    • Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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    • v.12 no.1_2
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    • pp.21-26
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    • 1997
  • 서론 : 1991년 OECD 화학물질그룹 및 관리위원회(CGMC)합동회의에서는 OECD가 화학물질의 분류와 표시제도의 국제적 통일화 활동에 참여하기로 결정하였고, EC, 스웨덴, 미국 등을 주축으로 정보교환소를 설치하여 급성경구 독성 및 환경에 위험한 물질의 통일화 업무를 개시하였다. (생략)

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Development of National Life Cycle Inventory Database on Irrigation Water by Agricultural Dam (관개용 저수지 농업용수의 국가 전과정 목록분석 데이터베이스 구축)

  • Kim, Young-Deuk;Park, Pil-Ju
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.53 no.3
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    • pp.59-64
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    • 2011
  • The objective of the study is to develop life cycle inventory (LCI) database of dam, a major facility for irrigation water supply. The types of database developed are three out of nine dams according to the size of the wate r storage capacity: two kinds larger than 500,000 $m^3$ depending on gate for discharging (Type 1) and the other dam smaller than 500,000 $m^3$ (Type 2). According to the LCI analysis, type 1 larger than 500,000 $m^3$ storage capacity with gate has the lowest environment impact in the 6 impact categories. The impact of the type 1 accounts for 7~35 % of the type 2 for supplying irrigation water. Comparing with the environment impacts of water for other uses such as drinking and industrial water, the impacts of 1 $m^3$ irrigation water supply is 4~45 % of the one for industrial water supply and 1~16 % of the drinking water's. The three types of LCI DB on the irrigation water by dams will be useful in the application of Life Cycle Assessment in agricultural products and environmental labelling including carbon footprint since it is complied to the guidelines of LCI DB constr uction issued by Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Knowledge Economy.

GHG & Energy Goal Management and Low Carbon Railway (온실가스.에너지목표관리와 저탄소 철도)

  • Lee, Cheul-Kyu;Kim, Yong-Ki;Park, Duk-Sin;Lee, Jae-Young
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2011.10a
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    • pp.2961-2964
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    • 2011
  • Greenhouse gas and energy reduction goal management system is announced to reduce national CO2 emission in 2011. The target business sector of the system has to follow the procedure of the system and get the assessment. The percentage of the national CO2 reduction goad is 30 % compared to the amounts of BAU. In railway business sector, 6 bodies are included in this system so that railway industry cannot stay and sustain its better position any more than other transportation industry. Most of the industry except Railway industry is struggling to develop its product more environmentally friendly and get the 3rd party certification like Eco-labelling and Carbon footprint. To get environmental certification, LCA method has to be applied because life cycle approach is needed to respond current environmental requirement. The purpose of this project is to facilitate railway vehicle manufacturer obtaining the environmental certification termed Korea EPD. By doing so, the environmental performance evaluation tool would be developed and modelled within the LCA framework and therefore applied especially for rail vehicle.

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Application of deterministic models for obtaining groundwater level distributions through outlier analysis

  • Dae-Hong Min;Saheed Mayowa Taiwo;Junghee Park;Sewon Kim;Hyung-Koo Yoon
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.499-509
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    • 2023
  • The objective of this study is to perform outlier analysis to obtain the distribution of groundwater levels through the best model. The groundwater levels are measured in 10, 25 and 30 piezometers in Seoul, Daejeon and Suncheon in South Korea. Fifty-eight empirical distribution functions were applied to determine a suitable fit for the measured groundwater levels. The best fitted models based on the measured values are determined as the Generalized Pareto distribution, the Johnson SB distribution and the Normal distribution for Seoul, Daejeon and Suncheon, respectively; the reliability is estimated through the Anderson-Darling method. In this study, to choose the appropriate confidence interval, the relationship between the amount of outlier data and the confidence level is demonstrated, and then the 95% is selected at a reasonable confidence level. The best model shows a smaller error ratio than the GEV while the Mahalanobis distance and outlier labelling methods results are compared and validated. The outlier labelling and Mahalanobis distance based on median shown higher validated error ratios compared to their mean equivalent suggesting, the methods sensitivity to data structure.

Measures of Improvement for Content Claims of Free Antibiotic Livestock Products (무항생제 축산물 인증 표시제 개선방안)

  • YounSang Choi;Yong Kwang Shin
    • Journal of Practical Agriculture & Fisheries Research
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.44-52
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    • 2024
  • This study attempts to derive measures to improve content claims of free antibiotic livestock products(FLP) through analyzing situations for the FLP market and results of survey for its providers. Recently the number of certified farms has been decreasing, but shipments per farm has been increasing. Furthermore as the COVID-19 has increased health and environmental concern, shipments of FLP have showed a steady increase. The distribution channel of FLP, regardless of varieties, is similar to that of general livestock products(GLP). The major results from survey for providers of FLP are little difference in between content claims of GLP and FLP and low utilization of FLP in production of livestock processed products compared with its shipments. The policies for content claims of FLP suggested by this study are permission of FLP authentication labelling for livestock processed products and permission of those which contain FLP over 70% in the first step.