Publications | Umweltbundesamt

Climate | Energy, Air

Submission under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol 2013

National Inventory Report for the German Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990 - 2011

As a Party to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC), since 1994 Germany has been obliged to prepare, publish and regularly update national emission inventories of greenhouse gases.Pursuant to Decision 3/CP.5, all Parties listed in ANNEX I of the UNFCCC are required to prepare and submit annual National Inventory Reports (NIRs) containing detailed and complete information on the e...read more

Transport

Procedures for the assessment and establishment of noise-reducing air routes

Within the approval and assessment process for new flight paths, currently mainly operational and safety related criteria are been taken into account. The people affected by aviation noise also criticize an insufficient consideration of noise effects and overall little transparency of the assessment procedure. This study identifies the most relevant criteria for this assessment process and propose...read more

Chemicals

Efficiency and practicability of risk mitigation measures for biocidal products with focus on disinfectants

In assessing the impact of biocides to the environment, specific measures to reduce a possible risk to the environmental compartments may be required.read more

Climate | Energy

Emerging economies - potentials, pledges and fair shares of greenhouse gas reduction

In this report we assess how ambitious emission reduction pledges of emerging economies are compared to business as usual emissions, the countries' mitigation potential and respective efforts based on different equity principles.read more

Chemicals

Investigation of widely used nanomaterials (TiO2, Ag) and gold nanoparticles in standardized ecotoxicological tests

At the nanoscale level, the physical, chemical, and biological properties of materials differ in fundamental, and often valuable, ways from the properties of individual atoms and molecules, or bulk matter. Research and development in nanotechnology is directed towards creating im-proved materials, devices, and systems that exploit the new properties. The specific properties of nanoparticles proved...read more

Economy | Consumption

EMAS in Germany - Evaluation 2012

With this report the Federal Environment Ministry and the Federal Environment Agency present the findings of an extensive survey among German organisations concerning their usage of the European environmental management system, EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme). The experiences of EMAS users detailed here are important for recognising possible areas for optimisation, and for forming suggestio...read more