Publications | Umweltbundesamt

Waste | Resources, Agriculture

Towards a Greening of Pillar 1 and an efficient Pillar 2

Opinion of the Agriculture Commission at the German Federal Environment Agency (KLU) on the Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy

The EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) intends to enable farmers to engage in multifunctional production by providing incentives or compensating farmers for measures and public goods not sufficiently remunerated by the markets but for which there is a societal demand. The CAP thus provides an important foundation for supporting the agricultural sector in meeting the European environmental and sus...read more

Economy | Consumption

Employment effects and needs for vocational training and qualification in the field of energy-saving building refurbishment

Summary and action recommendations

The buildings sector accounts for about 40% of final energy consumption in Germany, and by far the largest part of this is due to old buildings. In total, more than 80% of the final energy consumed in households is used for space heating and hot water (Federal Statistical Office 2010). Implementing the economically worthwhile measures for reducing energy consumption in the buildings sector would p...read more

Water

Oligotrophication of Lake Tegel and Schlachtensee, Berlin

Analysis of system components, causalities and response thresholds

Lake Tegel and Schlachtensee in Berlin show a uniquely pronounced trophic recovery in response to an abrupt and drastic (40- to 100-fold) reduction of their external phosphorus (P) load through P-stripping at their main inflow which exchanges the lake water volume about 5 times per year for Lake Tegel and about 1.5 times for Schlachtensee.read more

Climate | Energy

Design of the post-2012 climate regime: Sectoral approaches for greenhouse gas mitigation

Discussion paper: Incentives for mitigation investments

A discussion paper about whether the shift in re-sponsibility from emitters or investors to host country government would limit or even elimi-nate emitters’ incentives to engage in seeking cost-effective mitigation options and if so, by which means such outcome could be avoided or limited.read more

Health

UMID 02/2011: Special Issue II Environmental Justice

In this issue:Strategies for more environmental justiceBerlin pilot project on environmental justiceResearch and activities from Germany and Switzerlandread more

Climate | Energy

Submission under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol 2011

National Inventory Report for the German Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990 - 2009

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. In February 2005, the Kyoto Protocol entered into force. As a result, for the first time ever the international community of nations is required to implement binding action objectives and instruments f...read more

Climate | Energy, Economy | Consumption

Avoiding Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases

Prospects for Phasing Out

Fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases) are 100 to 24,000 times more harmful to the climate than CO2. The contribution of fluorinated greenhouse gases to global warming is projected to triple from nearly 2% to around 6% of total greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050. This is revealed by global projections prepared for the Federal Environment Agency in a scenario where no new measures are taken....read more