Skip to main content Skip to main menu Skip to footer
Search 0

Search

Help
1717 - 1728 of 1816
  • Article from 24.01.2025 | Last changed: 27.01.2025

    The AI Lab at the German Environment Agency

    On a bright background, there are two wind turbines, a solar panel, two people, a globe, plant leaves, and diagrams illustrating the thematic areas of the AI lab.

    … Environment Agency Artificial intelligence can also be utilized for sustainability and environmental protection. Source: Source: © Irina Strelnikova / Adobe Stock (modified) The Application Lab for Artificial Intelligence and Big Data (AI Lab) at the German Environment Agency leverages methods of AI and … are denoised and assigned to elements using AI, making the process faster and more reliable. Source: AI Lab at UBA Download image (559.83 kB) Facilitating citizen …

  • Article from 17.01.2022 | Last changed: 17.01.2022

    Assessments of SDG Interactions in Transformation Pathways

    Poster with symbols for the 17 Sustainable Development Goals

    … our world" Source: UN Communication Material The “SDG pathways” project develops and applies a modeling approach for integrated sustainability assessments of ambitious resource- and climate policy transformation pathways for Germany. Applied evaluation criteria … between the SDGs and targeted transitions towards greenhouse-gas neutrality and more sustainable resource use; (2) illustrate which transformation pathways may …

  • Article from 10.12.2025 | Last changed: 10.12.2025

    Digitalisation and natural resources

    The significant footprint of digitalisation needs to be better understood

    … Digitalisation and natural resources The significant footprint of digitalisation … pervasive in almost all areas of life. However, its impact on natural resources and climate change needs to be better understood. The UBA research project … and two central workshops , aimed at refining key areas of action and developing more specific policy recommendations. The analytical component of DigitalRessourcen …

  • Article from 07.12.2021 | Last changed: 07.12.2021

    Ammunition in the sea

    Gefahren durch Munitionsaltlasten für Schifffahrt, Fischerei, menschliche Gesundheit und das Meeresökosystem

    … - the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) In the German North and Baltic Seas, there are contaminated sites of about 1.6 million tons of conventional munitions and 5,000 tons of chemical warfare agents dumped during World War II by military … to be published in early 2023. Pollution from chemical munitions Significantly more chemical munitions (5,000 tonnes) were dumped in the Baltic Sea than in the …

  • Article from 12.03.2025 | Last changed: 28.10.2025

    Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES)

    woman lworking on a computer

    … Sustainability (CODES) Digitalisation can be an opportunity for environmental and climate protection Source: Oluwakemi Solaja / unsplash UBA together with UNDP, UNEP, Future Earth, ISC, ITU and Kenya is championing the Coalition for Digital Environment Sustainability – … together science community, governmental institutions, UN Bodies, tech companies, and civil society. last update on 12.03.2025 Digitalisation creates new …

  • Article from 29.04.2025 | Last changed: 29.04.2025

    Marine governance: How can effective marine protection succeed?

    … protection succeed? Oceans know no boundaries. This also applies to marine life and the spread of pollution. Effective marine protection can therefore only be … last update on 29.04.2025 Marine protection law comprises a large number of global and regional conventions, European regulations and national provisions. They provide … the seas and oceans and develop transformative solutions for the protection and more sustainable use of the oceans. Regional marine conventions are particularly …

  • Article from 15.06.2020 | Last changed: 24.06.2020

    Examples of Good Practice In Natech Risk Management

    … 2015 ) to the OECD Guiding Principles on Chemical Accident Prevention, Preparedness and Response ( OECD 2003 ) states in paragraph 18.g.2: “Countries should exchange experience concerning good practices for Natech prevention, preparedness and response including natural hazard identification, hazard mapping and natural … while an earthquake may again require different protection measures. Furthermore, depending on the readership of the record, only some natural hazards may be …

  • Article from 15.06.2020 | Last changed: 16.07.2020

    Natural Hazards Triggering Technical Accidents (Natech)

    Lightning and technical installation

    … or storms. Source: Siegfried Layda/Getty Images Examples like the earthquake and tsunamis 2011 in Japan and the devastating hurricane Harvey 2017 in the USA, make aware that natural … of the population will be increased; a Natech in these situations will have more severe consequences then an equivalent chemical accident at other times.  …

  • Article from 31.07.2020 | Last changed: 20.11.2025

    Non-Chemical Alternatives for Rodent Control (NoCheRo)

    Die Silhouette einer Ratte vor grünem Hintergrund

    … 2018, a working party has developed a draft guidance on the assessment of efficacy and animal welfare impact of traps. The guidance was presented in a second EU workshop and published on this website, besides background information on the European … a vast variety of terrestrial and aquatic species in monitoring studies worldwide. Moreover, anticoagulant rodenticides are highly questionable in terms of humaneness …

  • Article from 20.02.2020 | Last changed: 27.02.2020

    LIFE APEX – Apex predators and prey support chemical regulations

    Analysed apex predator and prey species in LIFE APEX

    … LIFE APEX – Apex predators and prey support chemical regulations Life APEX Source: … APEX is to improve systematic use of chemical monitoring data from apex predators and prey for protecting human health and the environment by making better and more cost-effective use of chemical monitoring data from the large, valuable but …

  • Article from 30.07.2025 | Last changed: 30.07.2025

    News

    News

    … from the CCE Source: Fotolia last update on 30.07.2025 41 st TF ICP M&M 32 nd CCE and 6 th CDM meeting from 18 to 20 february Agenda Presentations Report e-learning course The development of the e-learning tool for effects and related activities represents workplan item 1.3.9 for the Convention. The UNECE … revised empirical critical loads for N compared to 2011. 40 % of ecosystems react more sensitively to N than previously assumed. The ecosystems studied have been …