Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives |
| Acronym: |
GAIA
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| Legal status: |
NGO under spanish law
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| Website address: |
http://www.no-burn.org
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Sections
| Section: |
III - Non-governmental organisations |
| and more precisely: |
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Joan Marc Simon
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| Position: |
European Coordinator |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Joan Marc Simon
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| Position: |
European Coordinator |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
5 Massaguer
Barcelona 08005
SPAIN
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| Telephone number: |
(+34) 931291569 |
| Fax number: |
(+) |
| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
GAIA is a worldwide alliance of more than 650 grassroots groups, non-governmental organizations, and individuals in over 93 countries whose ultimate vision is a just, toxic-free world without incineration.
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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- sub-national
- national
- European
- global
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
1.5
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Complementary information:
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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Release of the "Double standards Report" denouncing the double standards of EU waste policy regarding the off-setting of carbon credits through the Clean Development Mechanism.
Release of the "Incineration overcapacity and waste shipping in Europe: the end of the proximity principle?" to denounce the overcapacity of incineration in Europe that is damaging recycling.
Avaaz action to ask the ENVI Commissioner to limit construction of new incinerators in order to preserve recycling.
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Climate Action
- Energy
- Environment
- Taxation
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
0 |
| Number of member organisations: |
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| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
- BELGIUM
- BULGARIA
- CZECH REPUBLIC
- ESTONIA
- FINLAND
- FRANCE
- GREECE
- HUNGARY
- ITALY
- POLAND
- PORTUGAL
- ROMANIA
- SPAIN
- UNITED KINGDOM
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Complementary information:
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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GAIA in Europe is part of the network Zero Waste Europe, a platform to promote Zero Waste best practices in Europe.
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2012
-
12/2012
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Total budget:
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53,902
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€
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of which public financing:
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€
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- from European sources:
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- Procurement:
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€
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- Grants:
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€
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- from national sources:
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€
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- from local/regional sources:
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€
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from other sources: |
53,902
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€
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- donations:
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€
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- contributions from members:
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€
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- Other sources :
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53,902
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€
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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< 50000
€
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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