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Climate | Energy

Developing Sectoral Mechanisms in the Transition Period towards a New Climate Treaty

This study analyses how sectoral approaches are evolving in existing and future mitiga-tion mechanisms, and how they can help shaping the transition period to a new climate regime most effectively. The analysis is based on an evaluation of recent UNFCCC sub-missions, a desk review of the relevant literature and databases, as well as a set of semi-structured expert interviews. The desk review is co...read more

Waste | Resources

Sewage sludge management in Germany

Germany’s municipal sewage treatment plants generate some two million tons of dry sewage sludge annually, with the proportion of thermallytreated sewage sludge increasing from 31.5 per cent in 2004 to more than 54 % in 2011.read more

Climate | Energy

Germany in 2050 – a greenhouse gas-neutral country

The study shows that it is technically feasible for Germany to become greenhouse gas neutral by 2050. The scenario chosen in the study considers the issue from a purely national perspective and does not include interaction with other countries. Based on a national greenhouse gas reduction target of 95% by 2050 compared to 1990, the study  demonstrates that this target can be achieved in Germany by...read more

Water

Measures to reduce micropollutant emissions to water - Summary

Discharge via the municipal waste water system is the dominant emission pathway to water for many micropollutants especially for household chemicals, substances used in commerce and industry (especially in small and medium-sized enterprises), pharmaceuticals and biocides. Against this background, the primary objective of this study was to develop suitable measures or combinations of measures and t...read more

The UBA

What Matters 2014

Annual Report of the Federal Environment Agency

The UBA celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2014. As an exception we took this occasion to take a look at the past in our annual "What Matters" publication, namely at the most important milestones in German environmental policy with which the UBA is closely associated. The publication also casts a spotlight on the most current topics in environmental protection. International climate protection pol...read more

Economy | Consumption

Innovative techniques: Best available techniques (BAT) in selected industrial areas - Subproject 3 - Foundries Vol. 2

Volume 2: Emission situation

This tome of the report contains a synopsis of the emission measurement results in found-ry industry plants.read more

Economy | Consumption

Innovative techniques: Best available techniques (BAT) in selected industrial areas - Subproject 3 - Foundries Vol. 1

Volume 1: BAT candidates

Based on the Directive on Industrial Emissions (IED, which replaced Directive 2008/01/EC) an information exchange about Best Available Techniques (BAT) between industry, Member States and Environmental NGO is organised by the European Commission for industry sectors mentioned in Annex 1 of the IED. It was intended to start drafting and updating the BAT documents on foundries in 2012. Due to delays...read more

Air

Modelling and mapping of atmospheric nitrogen and sulphur deposition and critical loads for ecosystem specific assessment of threats to biodiversity in Germany – PINETI (Pollutant INput and EcosysTem Impact) Part 1

Substudy Report 1

Biodiversity in Europe is strongly affected by the deposition of nitrogen and sulfur on terrestrial ecosystems. Therefore, the deposition of these atmospheric substances is assessed for the years 2008 and 2009 within the PINETI project. Dry, wet and occult deposition of NHx, NOy, SOx and the base cations Ca2+, Mg2+, K+ und Na+ are calculated and added up to the total deposition. By means of the la...read more