… 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 …

… refrigeration Supermarkets should cool climate friendly, energy-efficient and without fluorocarbon. Source: Bernard Bailly / Fotolia.com According to the VDMA, around 36,500 centralized refrigeration systems and over 540,000 plug-in refrigeration units were installed in German supermarkets, … to Climate Protection 1987–2017: 30th Anniversary of the Montreal Protocol Documents Supermarket Refrigeration: Environmentally Sound Alternatives (1.21 MB) …

… Emissions and degradation products Sun and clouds over the Indian Ocean Source: NASA Fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases, … (HF) the persistent and very mobile trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) can be formed. … Emissions and degradation products …

… Fluorinated greenhouse gases and fully halogenated CFCs Some fluorinated greenhouse … to Climate Protection 1987–2017: 30th Anniversary of the Montreal Protocol Documents Global Warming Potential (GWP) of certain substances and mixtures (341.92 …

… of drinking water supplies Safe drinking-water management Source: UBA: WSP-Handbuch Drinking-water is most likely safe if all process steps – i.e. abstraction, … should not be mistaken for operational monitoring. It is important that the team documents the results of each WSP step, as well as the underlying considerations. …

… Identifying and managing flood risks Comprehensive and river basin-wide management is needed to deal with floods. Source: Jörg … und kommunale Daseinsvorsorge.   Wasser und Abfall 23, 13–18 (2021). …   … Identifying and managing flood risks …

… of formaldehyde in indoor air. Source: Pixelot / Fotolia.com Wood-based materials and consequently also furniture and building products made from them may contain formaldehyde as an adhesive … other articles As a supplement to the regulation, there will be a European guidance document that describes the required test conditions in detail. The national …

… Research and development projects on nanomaterials Nano structures are more than … / Fotolia.com The German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) is currently funding and guiding the research and development projects on nanomaterials and other … The work builds on ongoing activities for the development of an OECD Guidance Document on environmental abiotic transformation of nanomaterials. In addition, the …