… power generation from renewable sources. Source: Martin Stallmann / Umweltbundesamt According to a UBA forecast, Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions were down … by the UBA has investigated the potential offered by the European Earth observation programme Copernicus. read more (in German) Recycled fertilisers: an alternative to …

… Diesel cars that meet the current Euro 6 European emission standard emit – under real operating conditions on the road – six times more harmful nitrogen oxide … consume calculated over the year. Using funding from the Environmental Innovation Programme, a construction company in Radolfzell by Lake Constance converted a …

… High Concern in consumer goods and, of course, about climate action. Our new background paper on the Montreal Protocol shows what humankind can achieve to solve global … no road access. A project under the Federal Government's Environmental Innovation Programme has now demonstrated how a self-driving crawler tractor can transport …

… harmful subsidies in 2012, for example in the coal and lignite industries. These funds can be put to better use in future. Read more about it in the new issue of the … (PECM) developed in a project carried out under the Environmental Innovation Programme, reduced the time and energy required for these processes to one-fifth of …

… World Health Organization (WHO) and is used by several scientific institutions. The underlying epidemiological studies take into account so-called confounders, such as … of a variety of plastics and metals. With the help of the Environmental Innovation Programme in Gernsheim, Hesse, a waste sorting system has been created which uses …

… in waste water. Read more about the new “Innovative Waste Water Technology” funding priority of the Environmental Innovation Programme. Wishing you informative reading The UBA press office Walking – the …

… about particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and ozone pollution. Source: Umweltbundesamt How good is the air that we breathe? Since the end of August, reliable and … Goals and measures were therefore determined in the 2013 waste prevention programme of the German federal government, and possible indicators were named. It …

… proposals for possible steps to counter this trend. Potato peelings and coffee grounds, etc. are waste which is of considerably higher value – but only if they are … a landfill site? This was demonstrated by a project in the environmental innovation programme using a specific construction project: the construction of the Rastatt …

… close look at the advantages and disadvantages of the various approaches currently under discussion – more about this in this newsletter. We would also like to … and switch over to climate-friendly alternatives. These include financial support programmes for advice on the saving of energy and on buying energy-efficient …

… a link to our responses to frequently asked questions in the current discussion under the leading article. Wishing you happy reading, The UBA press office Nitrogen … can have very different levels of energy consumption depending on how they are programmed. The German Environment Agency (UBA) has developed criteria to assess the …

… are the considerable levels of nitrate infiltrations from agriculture into our groundwater a cause of worry,  making it a more costly exercise to maintain the quality … urban redevelopment: documents online From 2015 to 2017, the Advisory Assistance Programme funded a project of Housing Initiative for Eastern Europe (IWO), which …

… shows the work of the Environmental Specimen Bank and how fish can be used to understand the pollution of our environment. We hope you find it an interesting read … on January 27, 2025 in the Ständehaus Merseburg. Source: Martin Stallmann / Umweltbundesamt Nowadays, it is still difficult to find environmental information. Data and … and recent data is of crucial importance in an increasingly digitalized word. This fundamental access is also an important basis for a sustainable development. From now …