… Ambitious environmental protection benefits health and well-being Healthy environment, healthy lives – green spaces are important for … urban areas: urban natural spaces provide space for movement, relaxation and interactions with other people. They cool districts in summer heat, reduce the risk of …

… Environmental- and health impact of 3D printing 3D printing implicates challenges …

… a strain on people's health. Source: creatas / Thinkstock How do climate change and environmental degradation affect human health? What can people in the health … are recorded online. UBA provided support for the lecture series from the funding programme for associations (Verbändeförderung). 26.02.2021 A total of 15 mostly … focused on climate change and health in the context of education for transformative action, for which the German Environment Agency (UBA) and the Federal Ministry for …

… Associations’ right to take legal action good for the environment Thanks to the Environmental Appeals Act, associations can become … of the environment. Source: Bilderbox / Fotolia.com Since 2006 environmental and nature conservation associations have had the right to take legal action if …

… Global Stocktake reveals climate action gaps and opportunities Closing plenary at the UN Climate Change Conference on December … resolution (1/CMA.5) of the Parties to the Paris Agreement. On behalf of the German Environment Agency, researchers from Öko-Institut, Wuppertal Institute, NewClimate …

… CASRI Project Tackles Environmental and Sustainability Challenges CASRI launch meeting at Umweltbundesamt (UBA) … CASRI Next Previous In April 2024, the EU-funded CASRI project (Collaborative Action for Systemic, Actionable, and Transversal Sustainability Research and …

… UBA & IIASA cooperate on modelling climate action scenarios Participants of the kick-off workshop with IIASA Director General … Source: IIASA As part of an in-house research project, UBA is working on the use and further development of an integrated assessment model (IAM) developed by the … (CATS), the team from department V 1.1 “International Climate Action” of the German Environment Agency (UBA), is building up internal capacities for the use and further …

… COP29: How to finance global climate action? The annual UN Climate Change Conference will take place in Azerbaijan in … were emitted worldwide, according to the latest Emissions Gap Report by the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP EGR 2024 ). With an increase of 1.3 percent compared to 2022, this …

… Environment and agriculture – Overview for Germany A varied agricultural landscape … thus is the largest land user in Germany and a significant contributor to environmental stress. On the other hand, agriculture is also affected, for example, …

… Climate action: Transport sector must do an immediate about-face Environmentally friendly everyday traffic Source: BMUB / German Environment Agency … the requirements of the Paris Climate Agreement, its transport sector must quickly and drastically cut its greenhouse gas emissions. A recently published paper …

… Adapting to climate change: take preventative action now Climate change also affects … Climate Report on 31 March 2014. … Adapting to climate change: take preventative action now …

… International action for more protection in a hazardous incident German-Polish emergency drill exercise on the Odra river in Brandenburg. Source: Gerhard Winkelmann-Oei / UBA UBA is engaged in transboundary efforts to improve the protection of man and the environment, for example in the case of fires at industrial facilities or oil …