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  • Appointment from 12.07.2022

    New European Bauhaus Festival Online Event: “NEB meets Research”

    … Research, invited interested parties and stakeholders from science, municipalities, business and politics to exchange on strategic alliances for knowledge generation … heritage and justice aspects. The speakers discussed how research, politics, business and society can form strategic alliances for integrated solutions fostering …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 12.12.2024

    LW-R-5: Sales and application of pesticides

    The picture shows a close-up of a man in a rapeseed field, carefully grasping the yellow blossom of a rapeseed plant.

    … to changed weather conditions; this requires agricultural and horticultural businesses to respond flexibly and with the utmost speed in order to get plant … control. Precautionary measures have become ever more important for agricultural businesses in order to ensure that crops are healthy and sufficiently resilient to …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 12.12.2024

    LW-I-1: Agrophenological phase shifts

    The picture shows apple blossoms covered in frost.

    … Changes in seasonal weather patterns result in new challenges facing agricultural businesses in terms of scheduling their management operations. Owing to higher … in seasonal weather patterns confront agriculture with new challenges. Farming businesses have to adapt their choices of crop and crop variety, crop rotation and …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 12.12.2024

    LW-I-2: Yield fluctuations

    The picture shows the soil of a cereal field, with large cracks caused by drought.

    … Any increase in yield variability increases the production risk for agricultural businesses. Extreme years tend to result in substantial deviations – either positive … in agricultural practice, because changing market conditions have always meant that businesses have had to be highly responsive. It is to be expected that increasing …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 12.12.2024

    LW-R-6: Agricultural irrigation

    The picture shows an arable field with young potato plants being irrigated by a drip irrigation unit.

    … volumes of rain falling, but also on cost-benefit calculations carried out by the businesses concerned, and not least on the volumes of water available in the region … According to a statistical survey conducted in 2015, there were still 79 % of businesses which used sprinklers for irrigation, whereas only 32 % used (also) …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 17.12.2024

    BAU-I-5: Claims expenditure for property insurance

    The picture shows a badly damaged single-family house. The exterior wall has been breached in several places, some windows are missing, and the exterior rendering is pitted to well above the ground floor. Mud and debris have accumulated all round the house.

    … Flash floods in July 2021 from Bernd caused major damage to homes, belongings, and businesses. Source: GordonGrand / stock.adobe.com 2023 Monitoring Report on the …

  • Appointment from 24.10.2023

    High level panel discussion: Circular Economy

    Weltkarte aus grünen Blättern nachgebildet, darum sind Symbole für Nachhaltigkeit gruppiert wie das Recycling-Symbol und erneuerbare Energien

    … world economy look like that meets the high expectation of living and doing business equitably within planetary boundaries? This event is part of a series of … world economy look like that meets the high expectation of living and doing business equitably within planetary boundaries? … High level panel discussion: …

  • News from 14.04.2020 | Last changed: 12.05.2020

    New blog: Corona Sustainability Compass (CSC)

    People on a square

    … need to be developed. The economy and public life are practically at a standstill. Businesses are facing a huge squeeze on their liquidity. Many companies are asking …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 30.09.2024

    Cluster Trade and industry

    The picture shows a sectional view of a wooded landscape. There is an industrial estate visible in the distance, consisting of several buildings and facilities. There is smoke rising from some chimneys. The sky is densely cloud-covered. Above the horizon, the sky is tinged with yellow, with dark, greyish-blue clouds billowing at the margin of the picture. In a few lighter places, rays of the sun are penetrating the band of clouds.

    … extremes and risks from changing market conditions jeopardising value-added and business models. Forward-looking entrepreneurial action can mitigate such risks at … events as far as the development of insured damage is concerned – because businesses tend to insure specific risks according to their particular requirements …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 12.12.2024

    BO-R-2: Permanent grassland terrain

    The picture shows a grassland with mown grass. The mown grass is lying in rows. In the right-hand margin a tractor can be seen turning hay. In the upper margin you can see a hay bale.

    … The intensification of dairy farming and low milk prices prompted agricultural businesses to tend predominantly high-performance dairy cows. Their basic food … of the GLÖZ Standard. This means that any funding disbursed to agricultural businesses from the CAP is conditional on ensuring that the permanent grassland …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    KM-I-6: Pumping station performance – case study

    The picture shows the pumping station Steinschleuse on the Eider river. A retaining wall with a bridge and a brick-built house are visible.

    … to nature conservation. Furthermore, there are settlements and trade and industry businesses scattered over some areas. In particular near the coast, tourism is … issues are highly relevant to the pumping station associations and agricultural businesses in the lowland areas. For the future it is to be expected that the …

  • Press release 41/2021 from 15.10.2021 | Last changed: 18.10.2021

    Municipalities say thanks for separate collection of biowaste

    Onion peels and other organic waste in a bowl on the kitchen table

    … (BMU), German Environment Agency (UBA) and many other nature conservation and business associations, cities, administrative districts and municipal undertakings … (BMU), German Environment Agency (UBA) and many other nature conservation and business associations, cities, administrative districts and municipal undertakings …