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Article from 05.12.2025 | Last changed: 05.12.2025

Sustainable lifestyles: NiCE - From niche to centre

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… and Innovation Centre and the City of Brzeg Dolny from Poland. The project is funded by the EU Interreg programme for Central Europe and will run from May 2023 to April 2026. Course of the …

Article from 18.11.2025 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

Series: Greenhouse gas-neutral administrations

… micro-organizations? Greenhouse gas-neutral administrations: Guidelines and programmes for a systematic approach 18.04.2024 Speakers: Eurico Clemente (ADENE – … micro-organizations? Greenhouse gas-neutral administrations: Guidelines and programmes for a systematic approach 18.04.2024 Speakers: Eurico Clemente (ADENE – …

Article from 10.12.2025 | Last changed: 10.12.2025

Factor X - Intelligent use of natural resources

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… last 40 years, the global extraction of raw materials has more than tripled to around 85 billion tonnes per year. Today, this already significantly exceeds the … with many examples of sustainable approaches. Associated content Source: Umweltbundesamt 29.01.2016 Short film "Beyond Climate Change – Flow" - Short version English Source: Umweltbundesamt 29.01.2016 Short film "Beyond Climate Change – Flow" - Short version German …

Article from 13.09.2024 | Last changed: 28.01.2025

International strategies and programmes

… International strategies and programmes Sustainbale resource management is an international task Source: Pixabay … last update on 13.09.2024 The sustainable use of resources and raw materials is fundamental to environmental policy and is reflected in a number of international …

Article from 07.05.2020 | Last changed: 16.07.2025

Agricultural Expert Panel at the German Environment Agency

… future of agriculture in October 2019 (German): Landwirtschaft quo vadis? - Agrar- und Ernährungssysteme der Zukunft – Vielfalt gewähren, Handlungsrahmen abstecken. At … KLU demands a shift away from area-based payments and develops benchmarks for the funding period after 2021. The KLU is a group of scientists and scholars of various … Gelsenkirchen • Lutz Ribbe, Conservation policy director at the EuroNatur Foundation, Member of the European Economic and Social Committee of the European …

Article from 13.05.2020 | Last changed: 24.10.2023

UNEP / UNESCO / BMUV Training Programme

… UNEP / UNESCO / BMUV Training Programme The “UNEP/UNESCO/BMUV International Postgraduate Training Programme on … (CIPSEM) is in charge of preparing and implementing the courses. CIPSEM was founded in 1977 in the former GDR (East Germany), with international support from …

Article from 03.06.2020 | Last changed: 04.06.2020

Federal Environment Ministry's Advisory Assistance Programme

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… Federal Environment Ministry's Advisory Assistance Programme The UBA cooperates with EECCA and Central/Eastern European states Source: Umweltbundesamt Since the year 2000 the Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMU) runs the …

Article from 10.12.2025 | Last changed: 10.12.2025

Resource use in Germany

… development and summarises individual subtopics. The current report deals with around 30 resource-related sub-topics in a modular fashion (report summarised in a … Ressourcenschonung im Bedarfsfeld Freizeit Digitalisierung und natürliche Ressourcen Related publications Brochure: Digitalisation and natural … development and summarises individual subtopics. The current report deals with around 30 resource-related sub-topics in a modular fashion (report summarised in a …

Article from 12.12.2025 | Last changed: 12.12.2025

FAQ

… provides precipitation data from the RESTNI 3 project for dispersion calculations under the TA Luft (Technical Instructions on Air Quality Control). In addition to … in the first quarter of 2026 in the UBA series of texts at https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikationen . According to this procedure, the precipitation data will … concentration depends on the distance from the source and the height above the ground. The averaging time (hourly average, annual average) also plays a role. It is …

Article from 10.08.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

Military and armament contaminated sites

… Publications Bestandsaufnahme von Rüstungsaltlastverdachtsstandorten in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Modellhafte Altlastenuntersuchung an ausgewählten Standorten der Munitionszerlegung und -vernichtung nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg Documents Internationale Erfahrungen - …

Article from 10.01.2022 | Last changed: 25.01.2024

Digital services / Cloud computing

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… grams of CO 2 equivalents. This corresponds to electrical power consumption of around 2.3 watts per video stream, not counting power consumption for data transmission … devices, in passenger kilometres on various modes of transport Source: Umweltbundesamt Calculating the carbon footprint of virtual desktop infrastructure The … conference "green cloud computing" 2020 Publications Green Cloud Computing Energie- und Ressourceneffizienz digitaler Infrastrukturen: Ergebnisse des …

Article from 26.10.2023 | Last changed: 07.02.2024

NonHazCity 3 Interreg Project

… 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 project under the framework of the EU Interreg Program for the Baltic Sea Region. NonHazCity … construction. The project team involves 21 partners from all eight EU countries around the Baltic Sea, including municipalities, research institutes, NGOs, …