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  • Article from 24.04.2025 | Last changed: 22.08.2025

    CASRI report on enhancing Ethics, Gender Equality, and Diversity

    stylized people in different colors

    … for interviews and workshops, and designing strategic innovation policies. By doing so, the project promotes gender equality and establishes a solid foundation … CASRI aims to shape a future of science that reflects diversity and equality. Building on this framework, CASRI has taken further steps to put these principles …

  • Article from 25.07.2025 | Last changed: 22.08.2025

    CASRI’s Co-design Methodology: The Funnelling Approach

    The image shows a flowchart representing a structured process for implementing research and innovation collaborations and funding actions.

    … , which has already developed a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) for land use, land-use changes and soil management in a co-design process. Based on a funnelling approach to gather … calls, knowledge transfer programs, practitioner mobility schemes, capacity building, and access to research infrastructures. These initiatives will drive …

  • Article from 07.07.2020 | Last changed: 15.12.2025

    Research and funding

    … natural retention and reduction of pollutants in connection with contaminated soil and groundwater remediation projects” RUBIN , the German acronym for “use of … plume remediation measures. Support from scientific experts continues to be essential in such cases. European research Roughly concurrently with Germany’s … European Commission’s ERA-NET scheme aims to promote coordination and reciprocal openness on the part of national and regional research programs. The ultimate goal …

  • Article from 04.07.2013 | Last changed: 15.12.2025

    Site remediation

    … measures. The main site remediation goal set by the BBodSchG law is hazard avoidance. last update on 04.07.2013 How contaminated sites are identified To date, … of samples that are taken and investigation parameters that are applied. It is essential that the findings of preliminary investigations also be assessed using … measures. Source: UBA Downloads: (22.39 kB) Associated content Measures for building site facilities during remediation Geotextiles are used to protect …

  • Article from 11.08.2022 | Last changed: 13.10.2025

    Fachbibliothek Umwelt (Environmental Library)

    View into the environmental library in Dessau

    … world. last update on 11.08.2022 UPDATED : 11 September 2024 The current opening hours of the three library branches can be found under the following link: https://doku.uba.de/ The UBA office building Berlin-Grunewald (Bismarckplatz) will remain closed until about 2025/26 due …

  • Article from 27.08.2024 | Last changed: 28.11.2024

    National collaboration

    Titelbild Publication

    … boundary of CL. In other words, the choice of what to protect and what impacts to avoid is crucial and should, in the best case, be made by the countries themselves. … boundary of CL. In other words, the choice of what to protect and what impacts to avoid is crucial and should, in the best case, be made by the countries themselves. …

  • Article from 10.12.2025 | Last changed: 10.12.2025

    Sustainable resource use in the leisure sector

    Top view of a soccer field

    … require a considerable amount of raw materials. Steel and concrete are needed to build concert halls and amusement parks, pets need to be fed and products such as … and greenhouse gas emissions in the leisure sector. The calculations form an essential basis for identifying areas for action. These areas and options for action … and greenhouse gas emissions in the leisure sector. The calculations form an essential basis for identifying areas for action. These areas and options for action …

  • Article from 22.05.2020 | Last changed: 25.06.2024

    Biodiversity as insurance: aligning economic stimulus packages

    … and plant species are threatened with extinction ( IPBES 2019 ). 75% of global wetlands have already been lost ( IPBES 2019 ). Globally, insects on land have declined … and forestry products, has increased since 1970, public  goods, such as soil quality and diversity of pollinating insects, have decreased. At the World … will be followed by a new debate about public taxes and expenditures. This could open a window of opportunity for fiscal reforms to systematically internalize …

  • Article from 29.07.2025 | Last changed: 29.07.2025

    Geoengineering

    … climate altering technologies - even if new terms are constantly being found, they do not change the fact that has been known for decades: climate modification … context. Another classification is based on whether the CDR method takes place on land or in the sea. (See also: Short Typology of Carbon Dioxide Removals ). Marine … methods Afforestation/reforestation Improved CO 2 -sequestration in agricultural soils Biochar Enhanced weathering Bioenergy witht Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) …

  • Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    BO-I-4: Temperature in the topsoil

    The picture shows a seedling emerging from moist, dark soil.

    BO-I-4: Temperature in the topsoil With soil temperatures rising beyond 5 °C, plants begin to sprout and grow. … the conversion and displacement of matter is the sufficient supply of water in the soils (cf. Indicators BO-I-1 and BO-I-2 ). If conditions are too dry, many chemical … to their environment. Owing to their higher reflection capacity, light-coloured soils do not warm up very strongly, whereas in dark-coloured soils, temperatures can …

  • Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    BO-I-3: Rainfall erosivity

    The legend comprises six categories for the rainfall erosivity (unit: kilojoules per square metre multiplied by millimetres per hour) as a district average for the years 2017 to 2021.

    … over the past 50 years. High levels of rainfall intensity increase the risk of  soil loss. In years with violent heavy rainfall events such as 2002 or latterly … were  particularly high. Targeted anti-erosion measures taken on vulnerable soils and on steeply sloping terrain can help to  reduce soil loss even where high … mean was roughly 2.5 times higher than in 1975. In Germany, rainfall erosivity is essentially in line with the distribution of precipitation. As far as the mean of …

  • Article from 20.04.2015 | Last changed: 28.04.2023

    The CORINE Land Cover (CLC) program

    CORINE Land Cover 2006

    The CORINE Land Cover (CLC) program CORINE Land Cover 2006 Source: Umweltbundesamt Land cover … were defined, 37 of which are relevant for Germany (e.g. urban fabric, agricultural land, forests, wetlands and waterbodies). During the second data gathering campaign, …