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  • Article from 12.01.2023 | Last changed: 16.08.2023

    2022-2025 Dialogue on Micropollutants

    … 2022-2025 Dialogue on Micropollutants A stakeholder dialogue on voluntary and manufacturer-responsible measures for mitigating micropollutants in water bodies … Background After a two-year National Water Dialogue of the Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUV) and the German Environment Agency, the BMUV presented the draft … increasing, endangering their ecological condition, and that this is making the extraction and provision of drinking water increasingly complex and expensive.  Against …

  • Article from 07.02.2023 | Last changed: 14.11.2024

    Relevant Micropollutants

    … Relevant Micropollutants Which micropollutants are an environmental risk for water bodies and should therefore be scrutinised more closely? This is evaluated by the Committee …

  • Article from 10.08.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Military and armament contaminated sites

    Military and armament contaminated sites Although there is no legal definition in Germany for the terms Militärische Altlasten (military-contaminated sites) and Rüstungsaltlasten (armanent-contaminated sites), they nonetheless fall within … military sites, contact the competent federal or regional-state authorities. … Military and armament contaminated sites

  • Article from 10.01.2022 | Last changed: 25.01.2024

    Digital services / Cloud computing

    someone is typing on a laptop, with symbols for cloud computing such as clouds and download arrows above them

    … as possible Source: Blue Planet Studio / Adobe Stock Home office, videoconferencing and streaming services are digital services that are nowadays taken for granted. But what about the environmental impact of cloud services and the critical resources which are used in …

  • Article from 13.06.2022 | Last changed: 22.07.2025

    Sustainable mobility

    LKW und Pkw auf der Autobahn

    … reduce its emissions since 1990. Source: LVDESIGN / Fotolia.com Passenger traffic and freight transport in Germany are growing steadily. Increasing numbers of … in our society. However, the current transport system is also very damaging to the environment. Traffic – transport performance in terms of passenger and tonne … long term? This question is at the heart of sustainable mobility. In its Climate Action Plan 2050 , the German government has resolved to reduce annual greenhouse …

  • Article from 04.12.2024 | Last changed: 05.12.2024

    Economic aspects of transport

    Stau auf einer Autobahn

    … last update on 04.12.2024 Economic considerations Although the transport of people and goods ensures mobility and a wide variety of products, it also incurs a number … economy’s transport volume to a level that makes both macroeconomic sense and is environmentally sound, external costs must be assessed fairly to their source; in … of Environmental Costs - Cost Rates Climate Protection in Transport – Need for Action in the Wake of the Paris Climate Agreement A road toll for Germany: Every …

  • Article from 05.03.2025 | Last changed: 05.03.2025

    Distributing drinking water

    … Ordinance all the way to the tap. Its distribution via the water company’s mains and the drinking water systems of individual buildings brings it into contact with a … properties. However, lead dissolves in water in concentrations which bear a risk to health and is therefore not suitable as a material for drinking water installations. … Water Ordinance (TrinkwV) in the version amended in December 2012, the German Environment Agency was given the task of establishing the requirements on materials …

  • Article from 27.07.2018 | Last changed: 30.01.2019

    The UBA research agenda “Urban environmental protection”

    A city with red buildings from above

    The UBA research agenda “Urban environmental protection” The UBA research agenda focuses on topics which are of … gaps in our knowledge about environmentally oriented, socially acceptable and health promoting urban development. New causal relationships will be identified … Urban environmental protection includes, above all, an examination of the interaction between ecological, social and economic aspects. For example, climate …

  • Article from 01.08.2024 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    Soil Investigation Advisory Board (FBU)

    … the expert committee according to section 25 of the German Federal Soil Protection and Contaminated Sites Ordinance (Bundes-Bodenschutz- und Altlastenverordnung - … of the equivalence in the Federal Gazette by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV), … and specifies soil values. On June 14 th 2000, the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety convened the Soil Investigation …

  • Article from 26.10.2023 | Last changed: 07.02.2024

    NonHazCity 3 Interreg Project

    Logo NonHazCity3

    … NonHazCity 3 partner cities on the Baltic Sea want to avoid pollutants in, from and around buildings Source: NonHazCity 3- Projektteam NonHazCity 3 is a European … tox-free, climate-neutral and sustainable construction and renovation. The German Environment Agency leads the group activities that transfer the project output into … industry and other sea-based activities Tags Baltic Sea green procurement human health water protection hazardous substance zero pollution ambition … NonHazCity 3 …

  • Article from 21.03.2022 | Last changed: 28.04.2023

    Transport law

    Wortwolke

    … Transport law Legal regulations protect the environment Source: Julia Gerlach / Umweltbundesamt A comprehensive concept for … in other areas, for example in the environmental regulations governing the planning and authorisation of roads. Transport law and all other relevant regulation can … go far enough.” The guiding principle of traffic law must shift away from the satisfaction of “transport requirements“ (with cars in particular) and aim to guarantee …

  • Article from 18.11.2025 | Last changed: 21.01.2026

    Preventing corruption for a sustainability transformation

    Treppe auswärts mit grünem Blättern umringt.

    … Participants summarize their most important impressions from the workshop and call for cooperation in the prevention of corruption. From 14 to 16 February … threat to the achievement of the UN sustainability goals. Corruption damages the environment, leads to mismanagement and loss of natural resources and