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Climate | Energy, Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

The Future in Our Hands

21 Climate Policy Statements for the 21st Century

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing mankind today. Although we have seen a tremendous increase in scientific findings on the pending risks and knowledge of potential options for action over the past decades, global greenhouse gas emissions which are the reason for man-made climate change still continue to rise alarmingly.read more

Economy | Consumption, Health

Implementation of Health and Environmental Criteria in Technical Specifications for Construction Products

According to the Council of European Producers of Materials for Construction (CEPMC), more than 20,000 different products and materials are used in Europe for constructing buildings and infrastructure. This large group of construction products, which represents an essential economic factor within the European economic area, is mostly unknown in terms of the release of dangerous substances and thei...read more

Chemicals, Air

Branch- and product-related emission estimation tool for manufacturers, importers, and downstream users within the REACH system

Project A. Technical guidance for identifying an appropriate emission scenario

A new regulation concerning the Registration, Evaluation, and Authorisation of Chemicals (⁠REACH⁠) was proposed by the European Commission on October 29, 2003 (EC, 2003a). The regulation puts major responsibility on industry for ensuring the safe manufacture, import, and use of chemicals throughout the chemical supply chain and for documenting this in their registration dossiers. Man...read more

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