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  • 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 18.02.2025 | Last changed: 17.06.2025

    Pain relief gel – questions and answers

    Photo showing hands with white cream, which is wiped off with a paper towel.

    Pain relief gel – questions and answers For the sake of the environment: wipe first, … Diclofenac mit den derzeit gesetzlich vorgeschriebenen Verfahren der Abwasserbehandlung jedoch nur teilweise zurückgehalten werden. Wie ist die richtige Anwendung? …

  • 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

    A farmer plows a field with a ox plow

    … 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

    waste incineration plant

    … 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 17.11.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2020

    Environmental awareness in Germany

    People walking in a park.

    … Source: LauraTara / pixabay.com last update on 17.11.2020 Environmental protection and climate action as a key challenge In addition to the scheduled survey of 2018, … in the early summer of 2019. Out of all the problems which Germany faced in 2018 and again in 2019, environmental protection and climate action took precedence over … the state of education (65 percent; 2018: 69 percent). Concern about environmental quality In comparison to earlier studies, the respondents rated environmental …

  • 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 …

  • Article from 01.04.2022 | Last changed: 08.12.2022

    Digitalisation as engine of transformation for a green economy

    a green globe lies in green grass, inside it the word "CO2" with three arrows pointing down. Around the globe placed five icons: Wind turbines, e-car, solar plant, power plant and hand with leaves.

    … in the past. A research project is now investigating the application areas and transformation potential of big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital platforms for a green economy. last update on 01.04.2022 The term ‘Green … the guiding principle of an ecologically sustainable economy that links ecology and economy in a positive way and increases societal prosperity. Ten years on, …

  • Article from 10.04.2025 | Last changed: 12.01.2026

    Visit us

     The UBA building in Dessau-Roßlau from above. The building is elongated, with a façade of wood and coloured glass slabs and slanted solar cells covering the entire surface of the flat roof

    … protection agency, it’s important to us that our UBA buildings set new (and high) standards for green construction and renovation. Our Dessau-Roßlau … The Federal Environment Agency in Dessau The building's architecture The energy concept of the Federal Environment Agency´s office building in Dessau The geothermal …