… edition Man has used land for agriculture for thousands of years. Now as before far more than one million people work in agriculture in Germany. Agriculture serves, first of all, to feed the …

… of climate protection. A look at air pollution control and water protection shows that while harmful emissions to the environment are decreasing in many areas, this …

… to the goals of the sustainability strategy, the daily increase now should be less than 30 hectares per day by 2030. The Integrated Environmental Programme of the … increase fragmentation of landscapes and reduce the size of habitats. Furthermore, newly developed settlements and transport infrastructure generate additional … ' Roadmap for a Resource Efficient Europe' aims to reduce land use in such a way that by 2050 no more land is consumed in net terms (COM/2011/0571). The objectives …

… conservation. In 2022, the figure was 17 % and in 2020 19 %. The indicator shows that the positive trend of previous years has not continued. Considering the … Our behaviour has an impact on nature and the environment – whether through our work, our leisure activities or the journeys that we make. An ongoing environmental …

… livestock density: Due to the high amount of farm manure (animal excrements), often more nitrogen is applied to the fields as the crops can convert into biomass. The … the area of cultivation of high-output crops has increased and feed conversion by domestic animals has improved. In recent years, the implementation of more effective …

… Sea constantly exchanges water with the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and is generally more turbulent. The Baltic Sea, on the other hand, is only connected to the North … set by the European Water Framework Directive (WFD, EU Directive 2000/60/EC) i.e. that all waters should be in at least a good environmental status by 2015, was … modified threshold values. In reality there has been almost no deterioration. Methodology Determining the ecological status of coastal and transitional waters …