Publications | Umweltbundesamt

Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

Sustainable construction and housing

- a needs based approach for the future

Our way of constructing our buildings, our life-style, our housing patterns, as well as our mobility habits, increasingly place stress on the environment and endanger the basis of existence of many living creatures on this planet. Mankind can carry on ignoring the limits of tolerance of their natural environment. However, they must then learn to cope with increasing damage caused by natural catast...read more

Climate | Energy, Transport

Integration of Marine Transport into the European Emissions Trading System

Environmental, economic and legal analysis of different options

Marine vessels globally contribute to carbon dioxide emissions with approximately 3.3% (IMO 2009). International ocean shipping has been growing significantly over re-cent years with double digits, in particular in the container segment – the most energy intense ocean shipping segment. The growth forecast for seaborne trade today carries a high degree of uncertainty – particularly since the curren...read more

Transport

Road pricing for cars in Germany?

An evaluation from an environmental and transport policy perspective

Around €47 billion of the costs incurred by car traffic are not covered by the taxes and duties currently levied. Therefore road user charging systems are appropriate.read more

Waste | Resources

Transboundary shipment of waste electrical and electronic equipment / electronic scrap

Optimization of material flows and control

At present, significant quantities of used electrical and electronic equipment (hereafter referred to as UEEE) are being exported from Germany. Notified exports (i.e. those with consent by au-thorities) of waste electrical and electronic equipment (hereafter referred to as WEEE) to coun-tries outside the European Union (EU) have not taken place in any appreciable volume in the past years. The cond...read more

Waste | Resources

Lessons Learned from the MPPI and Benefits of Future Private-Public Partnerships in the Framework of the Basel Convention

This report is about lessons learned from the Mobile Phone Partnership Initiative (MPPI), and provides a basis for any future public-private partnerships in the framework of inter-national agreements, such as the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal. It is intended to provide some guidance for governmental authorities and international o...read more

Chemicals

Survey of the different chicken housing systems and accumulating form of manure/slurry for the derivative of a standardised form of veterinary drug decomposition in expositions scenarios

The legal foundations for chicken husbandry in the European Union are Directive 1999/74/EC (laying down minimum standards for the protection of laying hens), Directive 98/58/EC (the protection of animals kept for farming purposes) and Directive 2007/43/EC (laying down minimum rules for the protection of chickens kept for meat production). According to Directive 1999/74/EC, the use of unenriched ca...read more

Economy | Consumption

Measuring Welfare in Germany

A suggestion for a new welfare index

The social welfare debate has recently been rekindled both at the national and at the international level. There are signs that the costs of environmental change and of the maintenance of social cohesion are not adequately explicated by economic quantities like gross domestic product (GDP).read more