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Article from 21.11.2024 | Last changed: 21.11.2024

Access to environmental information

Blick auf Bürgerinformation und Bibliothek im UBA-Gebäude Dessau-Roßlau

… Dessau Source: Silke Seider / Umweltbundesamt last update on 21.11.2024 Background and aims of the Environmental Information Act The Environmental Information Act … UIG) sets the framework for free access to environmental information and regulates the active dissemination of information of this kind. The federal Act entered into force on 14 February 2005 and transposes the Environmental Information Directive 2003/4/EC into German law. …

Article from 03.12.2020 | Last changed: 07.12.2020

Immission control law

… Immission control law Immissions refer to the impact of external pollutants on man and nature. Source: Christian Noval / Fotolia.com Immission control is one of the … law also pursues a planning strategy: it provides for the establishment of air quality plans to comply with air quality standards and for the establishment of … by providing jurisprudential analysis. It establishes links between the broad concepts of environmental justice in the philosophy of legal justice with current …

Article from 22.01.2021 | Last changed: 22.01.2021

Environmental Code

… Source: Silke Seider / Umweltbundesamt A uniform Environmental Code shall harmonise and simplify the host of individual environmental laws. last update on 22.01.2021 … media and co-exist side by side. These laws sometimes use different definitions of concepts and regulatory approaches, or give weight to different environmental media. …

Article from 19.06.2024 | Last changed: 20.06.2024

International environmental law

… strategies for combating climate change: reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to unavoidable climate change. For some time now there has been an … study “ Environmental Liability in International Law: Towards a Coherent Conception ” by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rüdiger Wolfrum, Prof. Dr. Christine Langenfeld …

Article from 13.06.2023 | Last changed: 11.08.2025

Air monitoring networks

… last update on 13.06.2023 Monitoring networks of the Federal Länder Up-to-date air quality data from the monitoring networks of the Federal Länder are available at the … Länder can be answered there by qualified staff. Baden-Wurttemberg Bavaria Berlin Brandenburg Bremen Hamburg Hesse Mecklenburg-West Pomerania Lower Saxony North …

Article from 12.01.2023 | Last changed: 16.08.2023

2022-2025 Dialogue on Micropollutants

… 2022-2025 Dialogue on Micropollutants A stakeholder dialogue on voluntary and manufacturer-responsible measures for mitigating micropollutants in water bodies … ISI (project management, content-related technical support of the process) and IKU GmbH (process design and moderation), the Centre for Micropollutants has … National Water Strategy BMUV: National Water Strategy Tags micropollutant water quality … A stakeholder dialogue on voluntary and manufacturer-responsible measures …

Article from 07.02.2023 | Last changed: 14.11.2024

Relevant Micropollutants

… Micropollutants Which micropollutants are an environmental risk for water bodies and should therefore be scrutinised more closely? This is evaluated by the Committee … made up of experts from authorities, industry, academia, environmental and water associations. This page lists the micropollutants that have been evaluated … dossier is divided into: Application Selected data on occurrence in water bodies and biota Micropollutant properties according to relevance criteria Equivalent …

Article from 12.06.2025 | Last changed: 18.06.2025

Climate Action in Agriculture on a global level

… complex when looking at the many different national, regional, climatic, cultural and political circumstances of agriculture around the world. Greenhouse gas reduction and climate adaptation, food security, biodiversity, land rights and land use conflicts must all be considered together. last update on …

Article from 10.08.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

Military and armament contaminated sites

… Military and armament contaminated sites Although there is no legal definition in Germany for the terms Militärische Altlasten (military-contaminated sites) and Rüstungsaltlasten (armanent-contaminated sites), they nonetheless fall within … military sites, contact the competent federal or regional-state authorities. … Military and armament contaminated sites …

Article from 23.03.2015 | Last changed: 13.11.2017

Thermal treatment

… Thermal treatment Waste incineration plants generate electricity and heat in the thermal treatment Source: Bernd Engelmann / Umweltbundesamt Thermal … all such facilities, incineration energy is recovered to generate electricity, heat and/or process steam. last update on 23.03.2015 Thermal waste treatment All of … This figure has drastically decreased in recent years, owing to steadily increasing quality requirements for recyclable sewage sludge, in terms of pollutant content. In …

Article from 10.01.2022 | Last changed: 25.01.2024

Digital services / Cloud computing

someone is typing on a laptop, with symbols for cloud computing such as clouds and download arrows above them

… as possible Source: Blue Planet Studio / Adobe Stock Home office, videoconferencing and streaming services are digital services that are nowadays taken for granted. But what about the environmental impact of cloud services and the critical resources which are used in servers, data storage systems and … impact of these cloud services. One hour of video streaming in high-definition (HD) quality (two gigabytes of video material) at the data centre had a carbon footprint …

Article from 14.10.2020 | Last changed: 28.04.2023

Curbing overdevelopment

… Curbing overdevelopment Average per capita land use in Germany for residential purposes alone amounted to 47 square meters in … urban redevelopment and rural development – the aim being to increase the quality of life in existing inhabited areas so that people want to live there. Such … (fona), one of whose programs funds the development and piloting of innovative concepts aimed at curbing land use. This program, known as REFINA – Forschung für …