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  • Article from 05.02.2018 | Last changed: 05.02.2018

    What qualifications are needed for environmental protection?

    … in Germany is similar to that in other European countries: There is ever broader agreement that environmental protection offers considerable potential for the jobs market, but the development of the qualifications … aside in courses of study such as architecture or civil engineering for building modernisation with regard to energy saving. A survey of experts from companies, …

  • Article from 17.09.2019 | Last changed: 17.09.2019

    Rebound effects

    … larger model the next time they buy a car. A car that’s less of a gas guzzler engenders lower per-mile fuel costs, and this usually influences driving behaviour: … economic sea change, policymakers need to bear in mind that the rebound effect undermines resource use reductions. If policymakers fail to take such rebound effects into consideration, the target resource use reductions may fall short of expectations, and …

  • Article from 19.05.2025 | Last changed: 13.06.2025

    Testing facility of Pests of Public Health Importance

    two rats

    … Protection against Infection Act (Infektionsschutzgesetz - IfSG). The UBA is the federal authority responsible for this approval and publishes information on its … companies, a guideline for testing and evaluating rodent traps has been developed under the leadership of Division IV 1.4 (NoCheRo guideline, see publications). Associated content …

  • Article from 26.09.2023 | Last changed: 26.09.2023

    Harmonisation of health assessment – LCI values and EU-LCI values

    An attic floor will be finished.

    … emission limits (EU-LCI values). The procedure used by the EU-LCI Working Group to derive these European reference values for emissions from construction products into indoor air has been agreed with all stakeholders and published in ECA Report No 29 . Updates on progress made in the derivation of EU-LCIs are available on the EU-LCI website . The German Environment …

  • Article from 22.05.2019 | Last changed: 28.05.2019

    Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

    … Evaluation of the environmental quality standard of POP in 2014-2016 Source: Federal Environment Agency based on data supplied by Working Group of the Federal States on Water Issues (LAWA) - 2018 Bans or limits on the production, use and … PCB in suspended solids in the Elbe river. Germany's National Implementation Plan under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants contains an overview …

  • Article from 24.06.2020 | Last changed: 25.06.2020

    RESCUE – Resource-Efficient Pathways to Greenhouse-Gas-Neutrality

    picture symbolizing the interdependencies between greenhouse gas emissions and raw material use

    … transition process will require measures that go beyond immediate GHG abatement. Understanding the resource and raw material demands for the transition appears just as … pathway will combine the most effective measures from the previous scenarios in order to reduce GHG-emissions and raw material demand up to 2050. Main results of the … emitted CO2 from the atmosphere through natural carbon sinks such as forests in order to mitigate GHG-emissions. The use of natural carbon sinks is central for …

  • Article from 30.09.2025 | Last changed: 01.10.2025

    Resources Commission at the UBA (currently inactive)

    Excavators at work in an open pit

    … of key issues and developments on the sustainable use of natural resources, considering in particular associated environmental impacts and social aspects along the … policy and joint communication of findings to policy-makers and society in order to further strengthen sustainable resource use in Germany, the EU, and globally. Contributing to a better understanding of sustainable levels of natural resource use. Work areas during the …

  • Article from 29.02.2016 | Last changed: 29.02.2016

    Airguns - an underestimated disruptive factor

    Finnwal

    Airguns - an underestimated disruptive factor Airguns in the Antarctic – Underwater noise in one of the last refuges of rare marine mammals Source: Sebastian … at the annual meetings of Consultative Parties to the Antarctic Treaty (ATCM). … Airguns - an underestimated disruptive factor

  • Article from 18.03.2014 | Last changed: 23.10.2020

    Erhard Collection: „Waste – A look back”

    a man in a street collecting waste

    … managing it until the beginning of the 1960s. Towards the end of the 1960s, the federally owned "Zentralstelle für Abfallbeseitigung (ZfA)" (“Central Office for Waste … Sammlung Erhard Hofstandgefäß (Solingen 1909) Source: Sammlung Erhard Heraustragen der Mülltonnen mittels Tragegurt, Lübeck (1928) Source: Sammlung Erhard … für das Wechseltonnensystem, Crefeld (1913) Source: Sammlung Erhard Abfuhr der Wechseltonnen, Dortmund (1928) Source: Sammlung Erhard Wechselbodensystem, …

  • Article from 17.06.2025 | Last changed: 10.10.2025

    Switchgear

    Illustration of a typical gas-insulated switchgear

  • Article from 11.07.2024 | Last changed: 11.07.2024

    Eco-friendly transport refrigeration

    … gases and thus enhance the global warming. In transport refrigeration considerable savings could potentially be realized not only in energy consumption but … with CO2 (2018) 2000 reefer containers cooling with CO2 in operation (2018) First order of reefer containers with refrigerant CO2 (2017) CO2- cooled shipping Container … Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases Publications Nachhaltige Kälteerzeugung – Untersuchung der Energieeffizienz natürlicher Kältemittel in Transportkälteanlagen Related …

  • Article from 08.10.2020 | Last changed: 10.10.2025

    Application domains and emission reduction

    … Risks and Benefits of Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases in Processes and Products under Special Consideration of the Properties Intrinsic to the Substance The study titled Risks and … einer Strategie zum vermehrten Einsatz von Kohlenwasserstoff- Kältemitteln als Beitrag zum deutschen Klimaschutzziel unter Berücksichtigung des Energieziels 2050 …