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Climate | Energy, Economy | Consumption

Climate Technology and Energy Efficiency - From "Best Practice" Experiences to Policy Diffusion

- Seminar Proceedings -

- The biomass ordinance was able to stimulate the bioenergy market in a very short period of time. - The effectiveness of the ordinance in combination with the Renewable Energy Sources Act in general is evident and without doubt. - The trend towards bigger plants in the case of demolition wood will have to be examined thoroughly. - Reported problems and restraints are mainly related to the permiss...read more

Series
Climate Change
Number of pages
226
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74
Climate | Energy, Transport

The possibility of introducing a kerosene tax on domestic flights in Germany

The subject of this legal opinion is the permissibility of introducing taxation of aviation gasoline used on domestic flights. Currently, aviation gasoline intended for use in commercial aviation is exempt from mineral oil tax pursuant to Section 4 I No. 3) of the Mineral Oil Tax Act, with the result that air transport has a clear tax advantage over other modes of transport. Whereas in the past Co...read more

Number of pages
110
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168
Air

Joint report on air quality in the Tri-border region of the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany in 2004 (former Black Triangle region)

Gemeinsamer Bericht zur Luftqualität im Dreiländereck der Tschechischen Republik, Polens und Deutschlands 2004 (ehemals Schwarzes Dreieck)

Spolecna zprava o kvalite ovzdusi v prihranici oblasti Ceske republiky, Polska a Nemecka c roce 2004 (byvala oblast Cerneho trojuhelniku)

Wspolny raport o jakosci powietrza w trojgranicznym regionie Republiki Czeskiej, Polski i Niemeic w roku 2004 (byly region Czarnego Trojkata)About 15 years ago the Tri-border Region of the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany was called the Black Triangle (covering Northern Bohemia, part of Lower Silesia and Saxony) and was characterised by the highest air pollution in Europe. So it was necessary to...read more

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55
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Coverbild des UBA-Berichtes "Daten zur Umwelt", Ausgabe 2005, englische Ausgabe
Climate | Energy, Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

Data on the Environment 2005

The State of the Environment in Germany

2005 edition

There is growing evidence that climate change is occurring and having effects. The greenhouse effect caused by mankind (anthropogenic) accounts for about 60–70 % of these effects, while natural processes play a far more limited role. Since the beginning of the Industrial Age, human beings have been emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, primarily as a result of their energyintensive lifest...read more

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brochure / flyer
Number of pages
337
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313
Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

Annual Report 2005 - Federal Environmental Agency

Environmental policy encourages innovation and creates employment. The facts: environmental protection currently provides employment for some 1.5 million people in Germany, around 3.5 per cent of the workforce, and this is an upward trend. In 2003  Germany led the world in the export of goods and products for environmental protection, with sales worth 31 billion euros, accounting for an 18.8 per c...read more

Number of pages
111
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181
Chemicals

Manual on methodologies and criteria for Modelling and Mapping Critical Loads & Levels and Air Pollution Effects, Risks and Trends

This Manual is the basic guideline for modelling and mapping critical levels and loads and their exceedances, and for dynamic modelling of acidification. It helps Parties to the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) to fulfil their obligations to use harmonized methods to derive data for effects and risk assessments. This happens in the framework of the International...read more

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Texte
Number of pages
266
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125
Air, Transport

Implementation of Agenda 21 in European Ports at the example of Lübeck-Travemünde

Final report

Enclosure Band I

The aim of the research project is the examination of different possibilities to record and then work out suggestions for the reduction of emissions into the air, pollution of the environment by waste water, waste and oil as well as impairments caused by noise and vibrations from ships in the ports of Lübeck-Travemünde within the scope of the implementation of the Agenda 21 process. The Agenda 21...read more

Number of pages
217
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116
Health, Water

Epidemiological Determination of Disease Risks from Bathing

Epidemiologische Erfassung des Erkrankungsrisikos beim Baden

Five epidemiological studies were performed following a randomised, controlled study design in order to evaluate the risk of contracting infectious diseases from bathing in fresh water. Study locations were situated in the north, east, southwest and southeast of Germany: four sites on lakes and one site on a river. All sites had complied with current EU regulations for at least the three previous...read more

Number of pages
332
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