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  • Press release 39/2025 from 18.11.2025 | Last changed: 04.12.2025

    Clean Air at a Glance: UBA Publishes New Air Quality Index and Updated App

    Zwei Smartphones auf lila-farbenem Hintergrund. Aufschrift: Wie gut ist die Luft, die sie atmen?

    … health risks when assessing air quality in Germany and to incorporate the current guidelines of the World Health Organisation ( WHO ⁠) and the EU Air Quality … mortality. Forecasts  of air pollutant concentrations are also displayed as index values, ranging from very good to very poor. Thanks to the hourly updated index …

  • Press release 26/2015 from 21.07.2015 | Last changed: 23.01.2017

    Chemical brownfields: forest soil is very slow to forget

    photo of a forest

    … The good news is that the levels recorded at most sites are below the precautionary values of the Federal Soil Protection and Contaminated Sites Ordinance. "Our soil …

  • Press release 25/2020 from 22.06.2020 | Last changed: 06.02.2024

    ZERO WASTE

    Raul Walch. Laborant’s Pause, 2018. Inkjet-Print. Copyright: Raul Walch

    … the spread of the coronavirus and, if necessary, only via digital transmission, a guided tour format with experts from various fields, performances and a film … series since the mid-1980s. Discussion rounds, discussions with artists, guided tours and workshops for the public and employees round off the series. The …

  • Press release 19/2020 from 19.05.2020 | Last changed: 20.05.2020

    German Environment Agency enhances its air quality app

    Zwei Smartphones auf lila-farbenem Hintergrund. Aufschrift: Wie gut ist die Luft, die sie atmen?

    … the whole country. This makes it possible to see at a glance the air quality index values ("very good" to "very poor") which have just been determined within each …

  • Press release 43/2020 from 21.09.2020 | Last changed: 25.09.2020

    30 years of unified Germany: a plus for the environment too

    Der Brocken im Nebel

    … especially in the industrial area around Leipzig/Halle/Weißenfels/Bitterfeld. With values of over 400 micrograms per cubic metre (μg/m³) on an annual average, … times higher than in the West German Ruhr area. By way of comparison, the highest values today are around 10 µg/m³. It was only when power stations and industrial …

  • Press release 28/2022 from 09.06.2022 | Last changed: 15.06.2022

    Giving value added tax an ecological and social dimension

    Ein Marktstand mit Gemüse

    Giving value added tax an ecological and social dimension Zero percent on … Treiber umweltfreundlicher Produktions- und Konsumweisen All press releases Tags value added tax … The German Environment Agency (UBA) has proposed aligning VAT more … products and vegetable oils and public passenger transport from VAT altogether. … Giving value added tax an ecological and social dimension