Publications | Umweltbundesamt

Climate | Energy, Air

National Inventory Report for the German Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990 - 2004

Submission under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 2006

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 inventories of greenhouse-gas emissions. In February 2005, the Kyoto Protocol entered into force, thereby imposing additional, more extensive obligations with regard to the creation and review of emissions inventories and to emissions reportin...read more

Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

Guidelines for the Environmentally Sound Organisation of Events during Germany's EU Council Presidency and G8 Presidency in 2007

Conferences and other events can affect the environment in a wide variety of ways. It is often the journeys occasioned by such events and their influence on the climate that stand to the fore, but the consumption of paper, water and electricity caused by events, the traffic generated at the event venue and the minimisation of the volume of waste produced are also important issues for organisers se...read more

Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

Legal Aspects of User Charges on Global Environmental Goods

International airspace and the ⁠High Seas⁠ constitute global environmental goods (open-accessgoods), the use and consumption of which do not fall under the jurisdiction of any national sovereign body. Open-access-goods are primarily characterized by the non-rivalry of consumption and their non-exclusiveness, that is: they can be used by anyone virtually without restrictions. Airspace...read more

Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

Annual Report 2006 - Federal Environmental Agency

As the logo of the Federal Environment Agency, the UBA, states 'For man and the environment'. A team now comprising some 1.200 people has been working towards this objective for the past 33 years in Germany. The Agency's activities take place at the point where science and politics intersect, providing impetus and facts, and suggesting ways in which the einvironment and health can be effectively p...read more

Waste | Resources, Soil | Land

Manual for Biological Remediation

Techniques

The ability of microorganisms to transform environmental contaminants to final products harmless to man and environment has been a subject of laboratory investigations since the 60ies. Since the early 80-ies biotechnological remediation techniques for treating soil, groundwater and air have been developed and applied on this basis. In Germany the microbiological treatment of contaminated soils is...read more

Climate | Energy, Economy | Consumption, Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

Monitoring and evaluation of policy instruments to support renewable electricity in EU Member States

Summary

Policy strategies for the promotion of electricity from renewable energy sources differ significantly among the Member States of the European Union with respect to the amount of additional installed capacity as well as concerning the country-specific support costs. The present report aims to assess the effectiveness and the economic efficiency of the support policies in the EU based on both histor...read more

Climate | Energy, Air

Assessment of technologies for CO2 capture and storage

The aim of the study was to summarize the current status for carbon capture, transport and storage for CO2 emissions from power stations. Special attention was given to the implications from the introduction of carbon capture and storage in power stations on the efficiency, emissions and costs for electricity generation. To start with, a detailed analysis was made of the national, European and int...read more

Health, Transport

Transportation Noise and Cardiovascular Risk

Review and Synthesis of Epidemiological Studies

The auditory system is continuously analysing acoustic information, which is filtered and interpreted by different cortical and sub-cortical brain structures. According to the general stress concept, repeated autonomic and endocrine responses can result in permanent functional and metabolic changes of the organism in chronically exposed subjects. Epidemiological studies suggest a higher risk of ca...read more