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Heinrich Freiherr (Baron) von Lersner has died
The first President of the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), Heinrich Freiherr (Baron) von Lersner died on Tuesday, 26 August 2014 in Berlin. Lersner, born on 14 July 1930 in Stuttgart, headed the UBA for 21 years.
Who generates the most waste?
Germany is a major importer of waste. The reason is that German waste technologies are very advanced, and for some materials, the best disposal processes are here.
E-cycles – a (small) mobility revolution
The Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has encouraged cities and municipalities to make it easier to switch from automobiles to e-cycles. "E-cycles, that is bicycles driven by electric motors, require less space than cars and are considerably cheaper.
Same performance at less cost
New performance standards for vacuum cleaners become effective on 1 September 2014. The devices must consume less power and be built more robustly.
Ambitious policy for environmentally responsible world climate
Pharmaceuticals in the environment pose a global challenge
A research project on behalf of the Federal Environment Agency has shown the magnitude of the contamination of the environment by pharmaceuticals: traces of more than 630 different pharmaceutical ingredients and their degradation products have been recorded in many regions of the earth. They can be found in water, soil, sludge and organisms.
Loss of biodiversity on fields
Top marks for northern Germany’s lakes
More than half of the deep, oligotrophic lakes in Northern Germany have ‘good’ ecological status and therefore already achieve the objectives of the EU Water Framework Directive. These good reviews are cause for the Federal Environment Agency to declare them as “Water Type of the Year 2014” on the occasion of World Water Day.
