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Chemicals, Health, Water

Steroid hormones in the aquatic environment - Insights from new analytical methods for corticosteroids and progestogens

Endocrine active substances such as steroid hormones gain increasing focus in environmental research as they cause endocrine disruption in aquatic organisms exposed to environmentally relevant concentrations. Data about occurrence and fate of steroid hormones are scare. Based on the recently published method (FKZ 3715 67 413) the occurrence of 60 steroids in wastewater treatment plant effluents an...read more

Chemicals, Health, Water

Trends of pharmaceutical residues in rivers, suspended particular matter and fish – New insights by new analytical methods for active substances, their metabolites and transformation products

Environmental research is detecting ever more pharmaceutical residues in the aquatic environment as analytical methods become increasingly sensitive. The physicochemical properties of some active substances suggest an accumulation in sediment, suspended matter and biota. Hence, these matrices could be interesting alternative matrices for monitoring of pharmaceutical residues in surface waters. Aga...read more

Chemicals

Workshop “Exchange of experience on international information services and compaigns on biocides and their alternatives”

Project: Minimising the use of biocides - evaluation and recommendation of biocide-free alternatives

Nicht-chemische Methoden sind wichtige Werkzeuge zur gebotenen Reduzierung des Biozideinsatzes. Mit dem Projekt werden Maßnahmen zur Förderung von biozidfreien Alternativen beschrieben. Dazu gehören Konzepte für spezifische App-Entwicklungen, die Analyse bestehender Umweltlabel hinsichtlich ihrer Vergabekriterien mit Biozidbezug. Eine Fallstudie zeigt das große Potenzial von Nützlingen zur Minimie...read more

Chemicals, Economy | Consumption, Soil | Land, Water

Reducing the input of chemicals into waters: trifluoroacetate (TFA) as a persistent and mobile substance with many sources

Trifluoroacetate (TFA) is a mobile and persistent substance that is primarily introduced into the water cycle through the degradation of various fluorochemicals and remains in the environment in the long term. TFA can be detected in many water bodies in relatively high concentrations with some regional hotspots. This background paper presents current data and estimates on sources, input pathways,...read more

Sustainability | Strategies | International matters, Transport

Implementation and Development of GLI:X Green Logistics Indicators in South Africa

The GLI:X Green Logistics Indicators project has been established over several stages since 2016. Together with the province of Gauteng in South Africa, the project has succeeded in developing an indicator system for the measurability of green, socially responsible, and efficient freight logistics in the province in a cooperative dialog-oriented process. The aim of the present project was to build...read more

Climate | Energy, Economy | Consumption

A Front-Runner Approach for EU product policy

Impulse for raising untapped energy saving potentials

This paper presents an initial outline of a policy approach called “EU front-runner approach”. It aims at installing a regulatory framework which enables a semi-automated, progressive adaptation of ecodesign minimum requirements for products. It builds on performance levels of the best products available on the market by aggregating information in a database. The application of the “EU front-runne...read more

Climate | Energy

Renewable energies in Germany

Data on the development in 2021

On behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Affairs, the Working Group on Renewable Energy Statistics (AGEE-Stat) takes stock of the use of renewable energies and annually prepares an official estimate of the development of renewable energies for the previous year. This background paper describes the initial findings for the electricity, heat and transport sectors, supplemen...read more

Sustainability | Strategies | International matters, Soil | Land, Transport

EXURB Environmental – Sustainable interlinking of housing, work, recreation and mobility

The city suburbs are becoming EXURBS; the centre of life for millions of people and the intermediate space between cities and countryside is developing dynamically. Living "in the green countryside" is in high demand. Digitisation and the coronavirus pandemic have further bolstered suburbanization. The brochure deals with the question of how a sustainable development between the city and the surro...read more