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No	Area	Achievement	Benefits category	Benefits	Details	Representative Developper	Cost	Contact
No	Area	Achievement	Benefits category	Benefits	Details	Representative Developper	Cost	Contact
1	Home	Water saving tap	Energy-saving	Water and energy saving, because the mixer tap has a mechanism that reduces water flow with 50%, while maintaining pressure.	It has an aerator inside that mixes air with the water, without losing any pressure RINGSKÄR tap reduces water use by 40%	IKEA	139 RON	http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/categories/departments/bathroom/20724/
2	Home	LED lightbulb	Energy-saving	the most efficient lighting technology	LED consumes 85% less energy than traditional incandescent lighting and lasts 20 times longer (up to 20 years per bulb). It is even more efficient than conventional energy-saving bulbs and the bulbs last an average of 10 years longer. LED bulbs contain no mercury and can be fully recycled.	IKEA
3	Home	FOLKLIG induction hob	Energy-saving		IKEA induction hobs use magnetic field technology to heat the pan, not the rest of the hobor surrounding air. This reduces cooking time by up to 60% and energy use by up to 40%.	IKEA
4	Home	Bamboo table	Resource efficient		IKEA PS dining table uses bamboo, a fast-growing, renewable resource that is stronger than other types of wood.	IKEA
5	Home	KOTTEBO basket	Waste reduction		KOTTEBO basket made from coconut palm leaf. We adapted the product design and changed the way the material is cut during production. This has halved the amount of waste material generated and enabled us to reduce the purchase price by 3%.	IKEA
6	Home	COLIGHT	Resource efficient		A new type of lightweight particle board designed by Swedspan, a business within the IKEA Industry Group that manufactures particle boards mainly for IKEA. COLIGHT is 30% less dense than a standard particle board. This means less wood and resin is used and the product is lighter to transport so trucks can be filled up to 30% more efficiently. A BILLY bookcase made from COLIGHT weighs just 15kg, 30% less than one made with standard particle board, without sacrificing product quality. COLIGHT also uses a special glue that reduces emissions of formaldehyde.	IKEA
7	Home	Urban gardening	Environmentally friendly		In developing more efficiency per land acre, urban gardens can be started in a wide variety of areas: in vacant lots, public parks, private yards, church and school yards, on roof tops (roof-top gardens), and many other places. Aesthetically pleasing edible landscaping plants can also be incorporated into city landscaping such as blueberry bushes, grapevines trained on an arbor, pecan trees, etc. With as small a scale as home or community farming, sustainable and organic farming methods can easily be utilized.
8	Transportation	All-electric helicopter	Environmentally friendly	* Potential to become the world’s safest piece of air sport equipment * No emissions * Very easy to fly by joystick * Easy and cost-efficient pilot training * Extremely low operating costs and low-maintenance * Quiet, pleasant sound * No vibrations	* The construction of the helicopter integrates six rotors arms with three drives which are supplied from different energy sources. Each is powered by 20 independent computers, capable of individually navigating the volocopter in mid-air. * All parts connect to an intelligent mesh network. In the event of a failure of several components, the low-maintenance aircraft is still able to land safely.	E-volo
9	Transportation	High filling rate for transport of products		A higher filling rate means less space is wasted in each shipment. Our filling rate increased to 65% and our goal is to achieve 70% by FY13 for inbound transport (transport from suppliers to distribution centres)	Improvements to trucks, pallets and packaging enable us to transport more products in each shipment: Using bigger trucks and containers Switching from wooden to paper pallets or loading ledges. These are lower than wooden pallets, lighter and flexible in size. In FY12 we conducted a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study, comparing wooden pallets with paper pallets, which found that using paper pallets reduces the footprint of transporting IKEA products by 75,000 tonnes of CO2 per year – a 6% saving. Working with suppliers to improve product packaging. For example, in South East Asia our supplier of children’s SPARKA football toys doubled the number of toys per loading unit by changing the packaging.
10	Transportation	Reduce business travels			We encourage co-workers to reduce air travel to meetings and we promote the benefits of meeting by web, phone and video. As well as reducing the environmental impact of travel, virtual meetings enable co-workers to use their time efficiently, improve work–life balance and reduce travel costs. When business travel is needed, we inspire co-workers to choose lower carbon options through online booking tools and an intranet guide. In FY12, we introduced a “green meeting” guide for coworkers organising large meetings. Co-workers held 40% more virtual meetings in FY12, with around 600 web and phone meetings held every day. We added video conferencing facilities at 40 new sites in FY12, bringing the total to 110. The increased use of web, phone and video meetings has limited the increase in travel costs while our business has grown.

No	Category	Disaster	Area	Period of apparition	Impact	Details	Innitiatives
No	Category	Disaster	Area	Period of apparition	Impact	Details	Innitiatives
1	Agricultural	Mismanagement and shrinking of the Aral Sea "one of the planet's worst environmental disasters"	Aral Sea	since the 1960s	The ecosystems of the Aral Sea and the river deltas feeding into it have been nearly destroyed, not least because of the much higher salinity. The receding sea has left huge plains covered with salt and toxic chemicals – the results of weapons testing, industrial projects, and pesticides and fertilizer runoff – which are picked up and carried away by the wind as toxic dust and spread to the surrounding area. The land around the Aral Sea is heavily polluted, and the people living in the area are suffering from a lack of fresh water and health problems, including high rates of certain forms of cancer and lung diseases. The Aral Sea fishing industry, which in its heyday had employed some 40,000 and reportedly produced one-sixth of the Soviet Union's entire fish catch, has been devastated, and former fishing towns along the original shores have become ship graveyards. The overall cost of the damage to the region has been estimated at 35–40 billion roubles (£800 million).	Formerly one of the four largest lakes in the world with an area of 68,000 km2, the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects. By 2007, it had declined to 10% of its original size, splitting into four lakes – the North Aral Sea, the eastern and western basins of the once far larger South Aral Sea, and one smaller lake between the North and South Aral Seas. By 2009, the southeastern lake had disappeared and the southwestern lake had retreated to a thin strip at the extreme west of the former southern sea; in subsequent years, occasional water flows have led to the southeastern lake sometimes being replenished to a small degree. Satellite images taken by NASA in August 2014 revealed that for the first time in modern history the eastern basin of the Aral Sea had completely dried up. The eastern basin is now called the Aralkum desert.	In an ongoing effort in Kazakhstan to save and replenish the North Aral Sea, a dam project was completed in 2005; in 2008, the water level in this lake had risen by 12m, compared to 2003. Many different solutions to the problems have been suggested, including: Improving the quality of irrigation canals Installing desalination plants Charging farmers to use the water from the rivers Using alternative cotton species that require less water Promoting non-agricultural economic development in upstream countries Using fewer chemicals on the cotton Cultivating crops other than cotton Installing dams to fill the Aral Sea Redirecting water from the Volga, Ob and Irtysh Rivers to restore the Aral Sea to its former size in 20–30 years (cost of US$30–50 billion) Pumping sea water into the Aral Sea from the Caspian Sea via a pipeline, and diluting it with fresh water from local catchment areas
2	Agricultural	Salinity in Australia	Australia	By 1999 an estimated 2.5 million hectares of land had become salinised since the introduction of European farming methods	Over time this process has caused the thin top-soil layers to become irreversibly salty, and no longer suited for agriculture. Currently, around 5.7 million hectares of land is classed as having 'high potential' for salinisation, which that number expected to rise to 17 million hectares by 2050.	An increase in salt can decrease the ability of plants to absorb water through their roots via osmosis, cause leaf burn and necrosis through increased levels of sodium and chloride, and create nutrient and ionic imbalances, resulting in poor growth, and death.	Possible management strategies include: The use of salt-tolerant plants, such as: Atriplex amnicola Saltgrow - a hybrid gum tree being utilized within Australia to try to reverse damage within affected high-salinity areas. The tree has been highly successful, and has been attributed to be able to completely remove salinity within damaged areas and allowed new grasses and shrubs that are not salt resistant, to grow. The use of perennial crops and pastures Engineering responses including deep drainage and pumping (to lower groundwater) Reverse banks and interceptor banks (to divert surface water) Revegetation with native species Establishing trees Preventing further clearing in vulnerable areas
3	Agricultural	Salinization of the Fertile Crescent
4	Agricultural	The Dust Bowl in Canada and the United States	Canada	1934–1939
5	Agricultural	The Great sparrow campaign; sparrows were eliminated from Chinese farms, which caused locusts to swarm the farms and contributed to a famine which killed 38 million people.
6	Agricultural	Africanized bees, known colloquially as "killer bees"
7	Agricultural	"Dirty dairying" in New Zealand	New Zealand
8	Biodiversity	Chestnut blight
9	Biodiversity	Extinction of American megafauna
10	Biodiversity	Extinction of Australian megafauna

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