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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… 2018, a working party has developed a draft guidance on the assessment of efficacy and animal welfare impact of traps.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 workshops and the follow-up activities. last update on 31.07.2020 Scope of the initiative The …

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 …

Article from 20.06.2025 | Last changed: 24.06.2025

Advanced materials

… Agency is addressing the potential of advanced materials for environmental and climate protection and is participating in discussions on the open questions on …

Article from 30.07.2025 | Last changed: 30.07.2025

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 … Program, which is administered by the German UBA. The funds were approved, and the project officially started in April 2024. UBA takes on a dual role in this …

Article from 26.02.2025 | Last changed: 27.02.2025

Political context

Organizational Chart of the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP)

… Commission for Europe (UNECE) (see organigram above). The CLRTAP was signed in 1979 and came into force in 1983. It was the first international legally binding … at a broader scale. The goal of the convention is to control air pollution and its effects and to develop an extensive programme for the monitoring and evaluation of the …

Article from 08.08.2024 | Last changed: 12.08.2024

Further CCE Reports

… CCE Reports CCE Other Reports Source: CCE last update on 08.08.2024 Further reports and handouts published by the CCE can be downloaded here: Galert, W (2024) Empirical … Dirnböck T, Knaebel K, Djukic I, Posch M (2024) Critical Limits for Acidification and Nutrient Nitrogen . Final report. CCE, UBA, Dessau-Roßlau, Germany. Franzaring …

Article from 22.02.2024 | Last changed: 19.05.2025

German Environmental Survey, GerES VI (2023-2024)

a colorful picture with many different faces

… with environmental pollutants. Samples of tap water, urine, blood, house dust, and indoor air are analysed along with information acquired by questionnaires during … questionnaire on the study conduct and a self-administered questionnaire on climate change. The interviews and questionnaires serve to determine the influence …

Article from 15.05.2020 | Last changed: 18.05.2020

Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API)

… or through their use in livestock production. Therefore the German federal states and the Federal Institute of Hydrology have been measuring select active … in surface waters for a number of years. Currently no environmental quality standards have been determined for API either at European or national level. However, … stations in 2017. Monitoring sites mainly affected by discharges from municipal wastewater treatment p Source: Umweltbundesamt Downloads: (9.28 kB) Endocrine active …

Article from 29.04.2022 | Last changed: 29.04.2022

Newsletter WHO CC Air Hygiene

Schild des WHO CC Air Quality Management and Air Pollution Control

… Newsletter WHO CC Air Hygiene WHO CC Air Quality Management and Air Pollution Control Source: Catrin Zigelski / UBA Until 2018 the WHO … Air Pollutants for 2020 and Beyond 49, 06/2012 December 2012 Protecting Health from Climate Change - a seven Country Initiative in the WHO European Region 50, 12/2012 … Toxic Equivalency Factors for Dioxins and Furans an its Impact on the Emissions of Waste Incineration Plants in Germany 31, 06/2003 December 2002 Health Impact …

Article from 16.08.2024 | Last changed: 16.08.2024

Cross-media monitoring in air quality management

… sites throughout Europe. Comprehensive measurements are used to draw up water and material cycle balances on catchment scale. These detailed observations of … (clean air policy measures, changes in the deposition of air pollutants, climatic changes) and to estimate the effects of air pollutants on ecosystem … program. With the aim of developing future scenario simulations (deposition, climate change) the model system is meant to accurately reproduce the water and …

Article from 31.08.2024 | Last changed: 02.09.2024

SDGs: A challenge for sustainability policy

Poster with symbols for the 17 Sustainable Development Goals

… States adopted them in September 2015. In addition to implementation at national and local level, UBA's efforts in the area of sustainability focus on an … at EU level. last update on 31.08.2024 On 25 September 2015, the heads of state and government adopted the Agenda „ Transforming our world: the 2030-Agenda for … Establishment of an Indicator Concept for the German Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change Restart of the EU sustainability policy in the context of the …

Article from 05.03.2018 | Last changed: 26.03.2018

Nutrients in watercourses

… Nutrients in watercourses Nitrogen and phosphorus are nutrients for aquatic plants (algae, macrophytes). Their high … in the new Länder, the construction and modernisation of public and industrial wastewater treatment plants (construction of phosphate precipitation plants), and the greater number of households connected to wastewater treatment facilities. Today, agriculture is the principal source of …