Publications

Engines have become more efficient over the past ten years, but this increase in efficiency has been offset to a large extent by greater comfort and higher performance. German automakers will have to adjust their policy. - Future mobility – today‘s best investment - Environmental protection – a barrier to investment for agriculture? - Emissions trading – the engine of climate policy

A great deal has changed for the German waste management industry in recent decades. Purely waste disposal firms have become highly specialised suppliers and experts for efficient recycling and energy generation. In 1990, the German municipal waste management sector still burdened the climate with nearly 38m tonnes of climate-damaging gas.

The legal basis for soil protection in the Federal Republic of Germany is: - The Act on Protection against Harmful Changes to Soil and on Rehabilitation of Contaminated Sites (Federal Soil Protection Act) (Bundes-Bodenschutzgesetz - BBodSchG) of 1998. The Federal Soil Protection and Contaminated Sites Ordinance (BBodSchV) of 1999.  

Climate change is already having numerous direct and indirect effects on human health, which means that adaptation measures are required in the fields of health care and preventive medicine, urban planning and building design and in individual behaviour.

In 2005, the European Union released the EuP Directive focusing on ecodesign requirements for energy-using products (2005/32/EC: EU Parliament and Council of the EU 2005).

Role of renewable energy and energy efficiency in global energy scenarios A broad range of different global energy scenarios confirms that the exploitation of energy efficiency potentials and the use of renewable energies play a key role in reaching global CO2 reduction targets. 

It is the objective of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to stabilise the concentration of greenhouse gases on such a level that ”would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system” (article 2 of the Framework Convention on Climate Change).

Emissions of fluorinated greenhouse gases are currently covered under the Montreal Protocol, which focuses on ozone-depleting substances such as CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) and HCFCs (hydrochlorofluorocarbons), and under the Kyoto Protocol, which controls emissions of HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons), PFCs (perfluorocarbons) and SF₆ (sulfur hexafluoride).

In this booklet we describe trends in air pollution with particulates, nitrogen dioxide and ozone, and explain their connection to changes in air pollutant emissions. Air pollution has markedly decreased in the last 20 years.

What is CCS? - The objective of CCS technology is the reduction of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, which occur, above all, in the combustion of fossil fuels at large point sources. - The climate-protection effect of CCS requires a functioning process chain comprising capture, transport and permanent storage. - CCS is not yet available.

The Federal Environment Agency commissioned Adelphi Consult to carry out the project “Promotion of Best Available Techniques (BAT) in the Textile and Leather Industry in Developing Countries and Emerging Market Economies”.

Unambiguous definition of nanomaterials is of fundamental importance for intended regulations on nanomaterials, since not only the legal obligations have to be clear, but also just what is subject to them.