Publications

Sustainable Regeneration of Industrial Brownfield Sites in the Russian Federation by example of St. Petersburg.

This report is the result of a study conducted by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), commissioned and financed by the Federal Environmental Agency, Germany (Umweltbundesamt, UBA), and carried out between March 1st, 2003 and June 30th, 2005.

The current aims to identify the most important factors in the generation of traffic.

Based on the present status and the established prognosis including various inaccuracies, this study comprises the development of a calculation tool for biodegradable waste management, enabling MOEW to simulate specific scenarios, taking into account the experiences of implemented pilot measures and further research studies.

Entwicklung von Modellen zur Identifizierung von Schadstoffquellen -insbesondere im Verkehrsbereich- im Rahmen der 22. BImSchV - Dokumentation, Weiterentwicklung, Validierung und Maßnahmenplanung für ein bundeseinheitliches Vorgehen - Teilbericht

The measurement of fuel consumption and CO2 emissions has become mandatory during the type approval procedure for M1 vehicles (cars) in the EU with the introduction of directive 93/116/EC.

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Flame retardants (FR) are being used in various products, e.g. electrical components, synthetics, textiles and furniture foams, in order to reduce their flammability. Polybrominated diphenylethers belong to the most important halogenated FRs: they are – due to the production process – bromohomologous mixes of different isomers and congeneres (ΣBr = 1 to 10).

Toxic ignorance has become a major issue in the current debate on chemicals policy both in the EU and the US.1 The term refers to a lack of knowledge of the health and environmental properties, as well as the mechanisms of action, of Existing Chemicals. There can be little doubt  that this term also goes to the heart of the problem facing us today.

The most recent progress report under the Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Mechanism (GHGMM) shows that the EU Member States are at present considerably far off their target to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 8 % compared to 1990 levels in the period between 2008 and 2012. According to this report, greenhouse gas emissions were reduced by 2.9 % between 1990 and 2002.

For a long time we have been aware of the fact that environmental influences play a central role in human health and particularly children's health. Children are not simply small adults. They often react differently - often with greater sensitivity - to environmental influences. Depending on their age, children can be exposed to these influences for longer periods of time than adults.

If you want to build, you need land. It has always been like this. But the loss of open land outside of human settlements in Germany has never been so massive as in the last 50 years – more than in any other European country.