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  • Press release 36/2025 from 15.10.2025 | Last changed: 17.10.2025

    Majority of Germans want to travel more sustainably – but do not act accordingly

    Nachhaltigkeit beim Reisen ist bei der Reiseentscheidung nur einer unter vielen Wünschen.

    … for travel offers with sustainability labelling nearly doubled from six percent in 2019 to almost eleven percent in 2023. However, the sustainability of a travel offer … At 143 kilometers, the value for 2023 is higher than the previous record from 2019 (140 kilometres per day). An increase, especially in long-distance and …

  • Press release 22/2024 from 27.05.2024 | Last changed: 29.05.2024

    Kenah Cusanit receives the 2024 German Prize for Nature Writing

    in einem dunklen Gehölz fällt Licht auf einen alten abgebrochenen Baum

    … (P. Jandl, NZZ), most recently the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo Prize (2021/22). In addition to contributions to journals and anthologies, she has … Papier (2014) and Chronographe Chorologien I (2017) with hochroth Berlin and Babel (2019) with Carl Hanser Publishers. About the German Prize for Nature Writing The …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 05.01.2026

    BO-R-1: Humus contents in soils of arable land and grassland soils

    The picture shows a hand forming a small mound of dark-brown, humus-rich soil.

    … of Agronomy 24: 333-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2005.11.001 . 101 - Don A. 2019: Humusaufbau für den Klimaschutz – Ergebnisse einer Tagung zum … of Agronomy 24: 333-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2005.11.001 . 101 - Don A. 2019: Humusaufbau für den Klimaschutz – Ergebnisse einer Tagung zum …

  • Press release 28/2023 from 22.08.2023 | Last changed: 24.10.2023

    Additional measures needed to achieve climate targets

    Cars and trucks on a motorway

    … under the Federal Climate Protection Act (KSG) have moved closer in contrast to the 2021 Projection Report: The gap of 1,100 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions … depending on the⁠ scenario. This means that about 70 to 80 percent of the gap from 2021 has been closed. The report distinguishes between two scenarios: The scenario … Climate-Neutral Germany 2045 (Agora 2022) or The Road to Climate Neutrality (dena 2021), show what significant greenhouse gas emission reductions could look like for …

  • Press release 17/2021 from 13.04.2021 | Last changed: 04.05.2021

    Plastics in the environment: Transport, building sectors and agriculture are major sources

    Plastikteilchen

    … (e.g. granulate for artificial pitches, play equipment). Press release No. 17/2021 | 13.04.2021 UBA ⁠President Dirk Messner said, "About 90 per cent of littered plastic waste … rise. The national transposition of the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive on 3 July 2021 will provide very effective stimulus to combat plastic littering, for example …

  • Press release 31/2022 from 23.06.2022 | Last changed: 23.06.2022

    EU regulation won’t cut pesticide use without incentives for farmers

    Spray device on the tractor

    … Möhring N, Kudsk P, Jørgensen LN, Ørum JE, Finger F (2021): An R package to calculate potential environmental and human health risks from … Load’ indicator applied in Denmark. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 191 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2021.106498 Associated content Links Draft regulation on the sustainable use of …

  • Press release 34/2021 from 26.08.2021 | Last changed: 29.09.2021

    Structural change in the central German coal-mining district – establishment of environmental information centre in Merseburg

    Binärcode

    … administration from the fields of science and the environment. Press release No. 34/2021 | 26.08.2021 Dirk Meyer, Director-General at the Federal Environment Ministry, said, “We see … regions, the federal government and the state of Saxony-Anhalt decided in June 2021 to establish the National Centre for Environmental and Nature Conservation …

  • News from 25.01.2019 | Last changed: 25.01.2019

    How does emissions trading work?

    Screenshot aus dem gezeichneten Kurzfilm: Zu sehen ist ein Kraftwerk, das Geld für Emissionsberechtigungen zahlt.

    … and explains the contribution of emissions trading to climate protection. 25.01.2019 The consequences of extreme weather events and ever-increasing global warming …

  • News from 02.10.2017 | Last changed: 17.10.2017

    Shipping companies must report greenhouse gas emissions

    container ship on the sea

    … of their vessels covered by the EU Regulation starting 01.01.2018 and – as of 2019 – submit an annual and verified emissions report by 30 April of every year. The …