Publications | Umweltbundesamt

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

Air

Workshop to Promote the Ratification of the Protocol on Heavy Metals across the entire UN ECE Region; Yerevan, Armenia 2008

translation of the Russian brochureread more

Economy | Consumption

Environmentally harmful subsidies in Germany

For the German public, environmental protection is the most important problem in Germany after the labour market. People attach great importance to the quality of environmental assets - such as climate, water, soil or air. This is reflected by public and private expenditure on protection of the environment: in 2003 the state and industry spent a combined total of €34.1 billion on water conservatio...read more

Climate | Energy, Waste | Resources, Water

Recycling stops greenhouse gases

The contribution of the recycling and water management industry to climate protection

A great deal has changed for the German waste management industry in recent decades. Purely waste disposal firms have become highly specialised suppliers and experts for efficient recycling and energy generation. In 1990, the German municipal waste management sector still burdened the climate with nearly 38m tonnes of climate-damaging gas.read more

Waste | Resources, Soil | Land

Current state and future prospects of remedial soil protection

The legal basis for soil protection in the Federal Republic of Germany is: - The Act on Protection against Harmful Changes to Soil and on Rehabilitation of Contaminated Sites (Federal Soil Protection Act) (Bundes-Bodenschutzgesetz - BBodSchG) of 1998. The Federal Soil Protection and Contaminated Sites Ordinance (BBodSchV) of 1999.   read more

Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

The building's architecture

A convincing design idea implements ecological requirements

Flyer for the offices of the Federal Environment Agency in Dessau. Visitors who wish to be fully informed about the architectural and environmental design of the new building and head to the atrium can join one of the guided tours.read more