Publications | Umweltbundesamt

Waste | Resources, Soil | Land

Environment and Spatial Planning

Summary reports on Research and Development Projects

Spatial planning with the aim of environmental protection takes place at the federal, Länder (Federal States) and municipal planning levels and serves to prepare political resolutions and to implement parliamentary decisions. The parties involved are, among others, citizens, property owners, investors, planners in administration, affected public institutions and the political decision-makers.  read more

Climate | Energy

Best Practice in Climate Technology and Energy Efficiency in Central and Eastern Europe - Seminar Proceedings -

Climate Technology Initiative Capacity Building Seminar, Ostritz Germany

The final seminar session included a summary of the seminar discussions by Dr. Mez, (Environmental Policy Research Unit, Berlin). Mr. Bashmakov (CENEf Moscow) delivered a co-presentation addressing major shortcomings in the field of energy efficiency and deriving recommendations for further capacity building  from an Eastern European perspective. Following the results of the first brainstorming se...read more

Chemicals

French-German Expert Meeting on Risk Communication

in Context with SEVESO II Directive

In addition major accidents-information offers the chance to increase the credibility of the facility operator and the supervisory administrative bodies and other persons involved. Research shows that risk communication makes a considerable contribution to this fact.read more

Climate | Energy, Air

Emissions and Reduction Potentials of Hydrofluorocarbons, Perfluorocarbons and Sulphur Hexafluoride in Germany

On the basis of the historical consumption and emission levels of the three fluorinated greenhouse gases - HFCs, PFCs and SF6 - in Germany from 1995 to 1997, emissions forecasts until 2010 are elaborated for each individual application sector, with and without additional abatement measures beyond business-as-usual.  read more

Transport

Traffic and Transport in Environmental Management

Instructions for Company Recording of Transport-related Environmental Influences

The environmental influences of transport are many and diverse. They comprise not only the direct effects of the means of conveyance during operation. Transport infrastructure,  such as for example the road network, can also impair the environment substantially.read more

Transport

Environmental impact of traffic control and information technologies for road transport

Telecommunication technologies and informatics – in short „telematics“ – experience rapid progress and increasingly influence everyday life. This includes applications in transport. The use of telematics in transport aims at - providing relevant traveller and traffic information - organisation of procedures in private and public transport - improvement of safety - optimisation of routing - linking...read more

Economy | Consumption

Report on Best Available Techniques (BAT) in the German Ferrous Metals Processing Industry

Final Draft

The goal of this study is to provide background information on (candidate) best available techniques for environmental protection within the German ferrous metals processing industry (hot and cold rolling mills, continuous galvanising lines). It gives information on the energy and materials input and output levels of German rolling mill plants and identifies the impact of certain particular enviro...read more

Economy | Consumption

Report on Best Available Techniques (BAT) in Copper Production

Final Draft

On September, 24th, 1996 the Council of the European Communities issued the Directive 96/61/EC on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC-D). This directive aims to achieve a high level of protection of the environment taken as a whole. It was enacted especially considering the common environmental goals of the EC, laid down in article 130r, EC-treaty (conservation and protection of the...read more