… About us Source: Umweltbundesamt 10.12.2020 For our environment: The German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt – UBA) The UBA’s motto, For our environment (“Für Mensch und Umwelt”), sums up our mission pretty well. In this video we give an insight into …

… Wirtschaftszone in der Nordsee - Kartenteil Source: BSH 2009 Downloads: PDF-Datei (Download) (1.37 MB) What are the objectives of sustainable spatial … structures with high environmental and residential quality and preserving large, undeveloped open spaces; taking account of the spatial requirements of climate …

… to obtain permits for construction projects outside of existing built-up areas. Under this system, the number of certificates must equate to the acreage of open … monitoring of the trading system. In addition, the constitutional and statutory underpinnings of nationwide regulation of a trading system could be researched and … pilot project on tradable land planning permits started in January 2013 under the aegis of the UBA, whereby the number of participating municipalities will …

… Protection and management of areas under PEPAT The former British base Port Lockroy … historic site. Source: Fritz Hertel/UBA What do a colony of emperor penguins, the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, and polar researcher Ernest Shackleton's hut have …

… Ever since then environmental associations such as Greenpeace or the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) have striven to declare the Antarctic a world park. In 1989 the … activities related to mineral resources. The parties to the treaty are also bound to preserve the Antarctic as a natural reserve which is "devoted to peace and … Ever since then environmental associations such as Greenpeace or the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) have striven to declare the Antarctic a world park. In 1989 the …

… partially or entirely of mineral oil, synthetic or biogenic oil. Environmentally sound management of waste oil is regulated by the Waste Oil Ordinance of 01.05.2002, … basis for this is that the facility holds a permit for harmfree and proper recovery under Germany’s environmental quality legislation, the Bundesimmissionsschutzgesetz or ”Federal Immission Control Act.” This means that …

… 80 research stations on the continent, about half of which are manned year-round, and the rest are operated only in the summer season. Argentina was the first country to operate a year-round station back in 1904 on the South Orkney Islands at the northernmost tip of … Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) was founded in 1980 in Bremerhaven. The AWI conducts research in the Arctic, Antarctica …