Publications | Umweltbundesamt

Chemicals, Economy | Consumption, Health

Brominated Flame Retardants: Guardian Angels with a Bad Streak?

Flame retardants delay the ignition of flammable materials such as plastic, textile and wood and retard the flame propagation. This either prevents a fire from breaking out in the first place, or gives people more time to escape. Materials treated with flame retardants will generally be destroyed in a full fledged fire, though. Numerous chemicals are used as flame retardants.read more

Climate | Energy

Progress of German climate change policies until 2020

"Report of the German Government for the assessment of projected progress in accordacne with the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol - reporting in compliance to article 3(2) EU Directive 280/2004"

The Federal Government was early in developing a comprehensive climate-protection strategy. By resolution of 13 June 1990, the "CO2-Reduction" Interministerial Working Group (IWG) was established, under the direction of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). This working group's tasks include developing guidelines for policies and actions relative t...read more

Waste | Resources, Soil | Land

Final Report: Resource consumption of Germany - indicators and definitions -

Translated version of the original final report in German "Ressourcenverbrauch von Deutschland - aktuelle Kennzahlen und Begriffsbestimmungen"

On the national German and European Union level, the topic resource use is of central importance in the context of sustainable development. The „sixth environmental action programme“ accepted in 2002 points out the priorities of the European Union environmental policy for a period of ten years (2002-2012). Priorities of the program are climate protection, biodiversity, natural resources and waste...read more

Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

Analysis of the Yale Environmental Performance Index (EPI)

The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) is a research project aiming at establishing an international composite environment index. It is jointly implemented by two US-Universities (Yale/New Haven and Columbia/New York) and has been commissioned by the World Economic Forum/Davos. The research project attempts to facilitate quantitative cross-country comparison of the environmental performance of...read more

Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

Capacity Building on European Union Environmental Policy in Lativia, Final Report

Aufbau von Umweltbehörden und Umsetzung von EU-Rechtread more

Health

German Environmental Survey for Children 2003/06 - GerES IV -

Human Biomonitoring

The German Environmental Survey (GerES) is a representative population study carried out in order to determine the exposure to pollutants of the general population in Germany. The study has been conducted by the Federal Environment Agency since the mid-1980s. GerES IV is the first environmental survey to determine, on a representative basis, the body burden of pollutants in children in Germany and...read more