Is the Law the law?
It was a distracting trip, but it was necessary. Going two days from Trondheim, where we had such a good time (see cities, 14), back to the Netherlands. The agenda of this trip was a very mixed one: a graduation student in Delft was in trouble and needed to be helped out. There was a presentation at Philips about the issue of what standardization could bring for progress on environmental issues within the company (not a lot in my opinion - I would be an unwelcome messenger because most attendees would have a different opinion). There was also a discussion planned about the focus of the Philips’ Sustainability Strategy. I was in favor of placing energy savings inside and outside the company as priority number one. The general tendency among senior managers was, however, to favor more socially oriented projects like the so-called Bottom of the Pyramid activities. I would do a sales pitch for my ideas but was most likely to lose. And then there was the real challenge; the challenge to speak at the celebration of the 5th anniversary of the Dutch Take Back and Recycle Scheme NVMP. Friend and enemy agreed that its performance has been better than anticipated - that was the good news. Underneath the surface, however, there was smoldering discontent: NVMP had been a pretty shaky, typical Dutch compromise. There was a chance that the old differences of opinion between industry and the government could flare up again. I had not been neutral in this debate and had backed most of the industry positions, so I could guess that the Ministry of Environment would not be amused upfront.
国际会议
The 4th International Conference on Waste Management and Technology(第四届固体废物管理与技术国际会议)
北京
英文
306
2009-11-28（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）