Publications | Umweltbundesamt

Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

Impacts of seismic survey activities on whales and other marine biota

International Workshop, Dessau, September 6-7, 2006

The international “Workshop on the Impacts of Seismic Exploration Activities – particularly on whales and other biota” organised by the German Federal Environment Agency in Dessau, Germany, on 6 and 7 September 2006 brought together a wide expertise. All participants appreciated the intensive exchange of scientific information particularly concentrated on academic seismic surveys and the Antarctic...read more

Economy | Consumption

BAT determination in selected industrial fields as a contribution to the fulfilment of the climate protection targets and further immission control legal requirements

Partial Project 02: German contribution to the Review of the Reference Document on Best Available Techniques in the Glass Manufacturing Industry

On behalf of the Federal Office for Environment Protection, the Research Association of the German Glass Industry (HVG) elaborated a German contribution to the revision of the BAT guideline for the glass industry beginning in 2007. The major objective of the project was to investigate and document by means of reference plants the best available techniques of the glass industry in the field of the...read more

Chemicals, Economy | Consumption, Health

Building Products: Determining and avoiding pollutants and odours

Results from a research project

This brochure highlights scientific investigations on building products, performed by the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in co-operation with the Hermann Rietschel Institute of the Technical University of Berlin and commissioned by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). In the “Environmental and Health Provisions for Building Products – Determination and assessment of...read more

Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

BEF Publication: Knowledge and attitudes towards European integration and EU environmental legislation in local self-government in Croatia and Macedonia

BEF Publication: Knowledge and attitudes towards European integration and EU environmental legislation in local self-government in Croatia and Macedonia.read more

Climate | Energy

Regional climate changes: Recent findings

WETTREG: A statistical regionalization model

Climate change is no longer a matter of a distant future; it is already taking place all over the world, in Europe and also in Germany. Thus, an increase in the number of extreme weather events such as heat spells and floods is observed. For example, the Elbe flood in 2002 caused material damage amounting to more than 9 thousand million Euros; 18 persons lost their lives. A comparison of historica...read more

Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

Technology Transfer for Plant-related Water Protection in Moldavia, Romania and the Ukraine, Subproject 2, The Ukraine

Background of the project was the fact that the technological and organisational level of plant safety in East European countries is not as developed as the EU-standards require it. These deficits have already lead to major environmental accidents or they could lead to short or long term natural disasters, in these countries.read more

Economy | Consumption, Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

Legal appraisal of nano Technologies

Existing legal framework, the need for regulation and regulative

Nano technology is regarded as a key technology of the 21st century, which will be used in a large lumber of industries and technical applications. On the hand, completely new products are being developed, and on the other hand, existing technical solutions are being replaced with 'nao solutions'. Possible application fields for nano technology are ineresting from an economic point of view, but th...read more

Water, Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

Evaluation of policy measures and methods to reduce diffuse water pollution

(Evaluation von Politikansätzen und Maßnahmen zur Reduzierung diffuser Gewässerbelastungen)

After considerable improvements of wastewater treatment, the loads of nutrients and plant protection agents, deriving from agriculture and heavy metals from urban drainages effluents as well as from erosion of agricultural soils are the main sources of nutrients and harmful substances in the loads of water bodies. On account of this, the Environmental Agency has initiated the project "Evaluation o...read more