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www.researchandmarkets.com - Research and Markets (www.researchandmarkets.com/research/b504ea/executives_guide) has announced the addition of the "Executive's Guide to Environmental Megatrends that will Shape the Future of the Electronics Industry" report to their offering.

This 67-page guide was written by Dr. Paul Goodman of ERA Technology, one of the world's leading consultancies on environmental trends

with expertise in the electronics industry. IPC commissioned this study to help electronics executives steer their companies through the increasingly costly and complex landscape of worldwide environmental requirements. Three major environmental trends are the focus of the report. It covers future substance restrictions, including new substances that may be restricted by RoHS and the new REACH regulation restricting an estimated 30,000 chemical substances. It also forecasts the impact of energy efficiency and end-of-life recycling requirements and trends. Published September 2008.

Key Topics Covered:

- Executive Summary

- An introduction to environmental megatrends

-- Environmental legislation

-- Role of governments, bureaucrats, NGOs and industry

- Main types of legislation - substance restrictions

-- History

-- Scope of substance restriction legislation

-- Pressure for new restrictions and industries response

-- Comparison of hazardous substances with possible substitutes

-- Possible future restrictions - RoHS

-- Possible further substance restrictions - REACH

-- Substance control legislation in the USA

-- Substance restrictions - rest of the world

- Main types of legislation - Energy Efficiency

-- EU Ecodesign of Energy using Products (EuP) Directive

-- US Federal energy efficiency regulations

-- Restrictions on lamps

- Main types of legislation - Recycling

-- Impact of uncontrolled recycling processes

-- EU WEEE Directive review - concerns over existing systems

-- E-waste legislation in North America

-- Electronic waste options for the electronics industry

- Impact on industry from Megatrends

-- Business impacts

-- Technological impacts

- Conclusions and recommendations

-- Technical challenges

-- Strategic challenges

-- Lobbying challenges

Appendix I The RoHS Directive Deca-BDE restriction

- Overview of product related environmental requirements

- EU RoHS restricted substances and their main uses

- Substance restriction legislation scope

- LCA analysis comparison of lead solder and lead-free solder

- Proposed additional RoHS substances

- Comparison of mercury use and total emissions from fluorescent and incandescent lamps

- Examples of North American State e-waste legislation

- Main impacts of the three main megatrends on sub-sectors of the electronics industry

- Possible future substance restrictions and the implications

List of Figures

- Status of eco-design measures in the EU arising from directive 2005/32/EC

- Megatrends in environmental legislation - examples of substance restriction developments worldwide

- Megatrends in environmental legislation - examples of energy efficiency regulation worldwide

- Megatrends in environmental legislation - examples of end of life (recycling) - Obligations

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