… Environmental Compliance Assurance Monitoring of the environment is one of the important tasks of the … body of legislation, e.g. the implementation of immission control law, water law and nature conservation law. A number of laws, however, are enforced by the Federal …

… the German Environment Agency (UBA) explores the nexus between climate protection and associated resource requirements. Using six scenarios, different development paths are explored and insights gained on how to reduce future resource use and greenhouse-gas … and use of fossil and nuclear energy carriers can have negative impacts on the quality of our environment in several ways.  A conventional energy system requires …

… kilometres which may reduce the naturally available communication range of blue and fin whales to as little as 1%. last update on 29.02.2016 Underwater sound … the next few years. The German Ministry of Environment developed a sound protection concept for the North Sea with the aim of protecting the native harbour porpoise …

… Erhard Collection: „Waste – A look back” Waste disposal in England (copperplate engraving, H. Phyne, 1805) Source: Sammlung Erhard A selection of … for Waste Disposal"). It was implemented in the same year by the companies Schmidt and Melmer (manufacturer of waste containers, Weidenau/Sieg). In 1923 Dr. Ing. habil Heinrich Erhard took over the management of the information centre, expanding it in the following period and managing it until the beginning of the 1960s. …

… (SF₆), which has a very high global warming potential, is used for insulation and arc quenching in switchgear. SF₆ emissions have been successfully reduced thanks … in German) UBA web page: EU Regulation on fluorinated greenhouse gases Documents Concept for SF6-free transmission and distribution of electrical energy (Final Report) (2.90 MB) Concept for SF6-free transmission and distribution of electrical energy (Summary) …

… Building air conditioning Room air conditioners contain environmentally harmful HFCs and use a lot of electricity. Source: kanvag / Fotolia.com It is only recently that air conditioning has become relatively common in German buildings. The high standard of living has ramped up expectations concerning comfort and convenience in the home and particularly at the workplace, and this in turn has …

… / Adobe Stock Heat pumps are coming into increasing use for heating of buildings and for hot water production in commercial as well as industrial applications. Heat … friendly because the global warming potentials of these refrigerants are very low and no persistent degradation products are formed from the emitted refrigerants. … 230 ) can be used to label appliances that use natural (halogen-free) refrigerants and are characterized - beyond the legal requirements - by additional …