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  • Press release 15/2022 from 15.03.2022 | Last changed: 17.03.2022

    Greenhouse gas emissions rose by 4.5 percent in 2021

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    … according to RED, however, the real decline in renewable electricity generation is mitigated by a normalisation rule to offset weather effects over a period of several …

  • Article from 29.12.2021 | Last changed: 05.01.2024

    Water Resource Management

    … framework is equally extensive. Available water resources and water usage With potential available water resources of 188 billion cubic metres, Germany is a … volume of water abstraction across all sectors. In 2016 only 12,8 % of Germany’s potential available water resources were used. Water exploitation index Source: … are manifold and diverse, and the regulatory framework is equally extensive. … With potential available water resources of 188 billion cubic metres, Germany is a …

  • Article from 12.06.2025 | Last changed: 12.06.2025

    Serious Gaming and Sustainability

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    … tools for education and participation. Serious games are one such tool and have the potential to provide increasingly significant means of access to environmental information and education for the general public. They also offer the potential to create increased digital and data literacy. BMUV (2020): Auf einen … Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE and others together with UBA explored the potential of (serious) games for a change to more sustainability. The project …

  • Article from 19.08.2022 | Last changed: 16.11.2022

    Digital Sustainability

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    … sustainability transformation. Individually and in sum, the technologies harbour potential to bring about important ecological, societal and economic change. Gearing … of digital marketing strategies on consumer behaviour , digital economics, the potential of digitalisation for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the … and it requires coordinated global action across all fields of action in order to mitigate the negative impacts of digitalisation and achieve the goals of the 2030 …

  • Article from 18.11.2025 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    Permitting research projects on marine geoengineering

    … Marine geoengineering refers to targeted interventions in the seas to mitigate climate change, such as through methods for CO₂ removal. The legal basis … Marine geoengineering refers to targeted interventions in the seas to mitigate climate change, such as through methods for CO₂ removal. The legal basis …

  • Article from 28.11.2024 | Last changed: 28.11.2024

    Commercial Refrigeration

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    … systems. This also affects HFC refrigerant blends with a medium global warming potential (GWP) that have recently come onto the market, such as R-454C (GWP = 146), … Reduction: A Crucial Contribution to Climate Protection Documents Global Warming Potential (GWP) of certain substances and mixtures (341.92 kB) Related contents …

  • Article from 25.03.2024 | Last changed: 10.10.2025

    TFA as degradation product of fluorinated greenhouse gases

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    … fate with particular regard to new halogenated substitutes with low global warming potential"  commissioned by the German Environment Agency examines degradation … residues (NER) in PBT-assessment Potential of blue carbon for global climate mitigation - Factsheet Methane, the underestimated greenhouse gas Approaches to …

  • Article from 08.05.2014 | Last changed: 28.04.2022

    Waste regulations

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    … for disposal and waste destined for recycling, replacing these criteria with the potential hazards entailed by the waste in question. All transport operations … for disposal and waste destined for recycling, replacing these criteria with the potential hazards entailed by the waste in question. All transport operations …

  • Article from 10.08.2021 | Last changed: 28.01.2025

    Non-extractable residues in persistence assessment

    … in soil and sediment. So far, there is no accepted approach to assess their hazard potential for the environment. At a workshop in February 2021, UBA presented two … in soil and sediment. So far, there is no accepted approach to assess their hazard potential for the environment. At a workshop in February 2021, UBA presented two …

  • Article from 25.05.2022 | Last changed: 25.05.2022

    Benefit Sharing

    … achieve a net benefit once all effects on the environment as well as on other potential uses have been considered.   Associated content Publications A benefit … achieve a net benefit once all effects on the environment as well as on other potential uses have been considered.   … Benefit Sharing …

  • 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.

    … species on online trading platforms, and Monitoring hazardous materials and mitigating risks through the identification of radioactive nuclides via gamma … implements an AI-supported analysis tool that facilitates the identification of potentially illegal sales listings for protected species on popular online trading …