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  • Article from 29.07.2025 | Last changed: 29.07.2025

    Geoengineering

    … are constantly being found, they do not change the fact that has been known for decades: climate modification approaches harbor major risks for environment and society. … adapt. SRM would therefore have to be maintained either permanently or for many decades or rather centuries until the concentration of greenhouse gases in the … see background paper (German) Associated content Links Geoengineering-Governance Workshop report: Global Governance of SRM – What (not) to do? Publications Solar …

  • Article from 12.05.2014 | Last changed: 28.04.2023

    Brownfield redevelopment and inner urban development

    … zones, and housing tracts has significantly increased over the past three decades, an evolution influenced in large measure by people’s ever growing use of cars … sparingly as possible. Land recycling and strengthened inner urban development are designated in Germany’s national sustainability strategy as core land take reduction … Building land survey Reduction of Land Consumption - UMK report Publications Workshop Kommunales Flächenressourcenmanagement - Visionen für Politik und Forschung …

  • Article from 26.05.2025 | Last changed: 14.08.2025

    About us

    look into the inside courtyard with its glass roof

    … 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 … CO 2 trading and approval processes for chemicals, pharmaceutical drugs and pesticides.  Our activities are set down in the law that established our agency. Our …

  • Article from 27.12.2017 | Last changed: 23.01.2025

    Spatial and Settlement Development

    Lucian Milasan

    … laws: Spatial Planning Act  (ROG) for the supra-local planning level, which provides for the preparation of federal and state spatial plans with objectives, principles and territorial designations for the organisation, development and protection of space, Federal … of land-use plans by the municipalities. These include the legally binding description of the basic principles of land use in the land use plan for the entire …

  • Article from 02.08.2023 | Last changed: 23.10.2025

    Guarantees of origin for renewable energy sources

    … out (in accordance with section 42 of the German Energy Industry Act (EnWG)) provides customers with important information concerning their electricity consumption. … renewable energy. Flow chart of guarantees of origin in Germany Source: Umweltbundesamt Information for electricity suppliers The detailed rules and regulations … HKNR homepage. Steps for disclosure with guarantees of origin (GO) Source: Umweltbundesamt Information for electricity grid operators The HKNR obtains power generation …

  • Article from 28.01.2016 | Last changed: 29.02.2016

    Protection and management of areas under PEPAT

    The former British base Port Lockroy is a protected historic site.

    … Annex V of the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (PEPAT) designates three categories of protection: 1. Antarctic Specially Protected Area … except if a special permit is granted for that purpose. Currently there are 71 designated ASPAs. 2. Antarctic Specially Managed Area (ASMA) The instrument of … (HSM). No special permit is required to enter these areas. There are currently six designated ASMAs in Antarctica. 3. Historic Sites and Monuments (HSM) Sites and …

  • Article from 23.01.2014 | Last changed: 10.03.2021

    Resource conservation in the manufacturing and consumption domain

    Smoking chimneys of an industrial plant

    … jobs and ensure sustainable employment. Associated content Links German Federal Ecodesign Award Environmental innovation programme (in German) European Resources Forum … Indikator: Abfallmenge – Siedlungsabfälle Ressourcenkommission am Umweltbundesamt (KRU) (momentan ruhend) Indikator: Globale Umweltinanspruchnahme des Konsums Indikator: Umweltfreundlicher Konsum Related publications Blue Angel …

  • Article from 08.03.2016 | Last changed: 11.03.2016

    Research and logistics in the perpetual ice

    The german Research Station Neumayer 3

    … activities (see below under "Other Organizations and Institutions "). The AWI provides the basic infrastructure for German researchers and in the framework of … which are attributable to greenhouse gases, aerosols and cosmogenic radionuclides. In cooperation with the Argentine Instituto Antártico Argentino (IAA), the AWI … first research location in Antarctica to be jointly operated by two countries provides accommodation and a workplace during the austral summer for up to twelve …

  • Article from 27.01.2016 | Last changed: 29.02.2016

    Climate of the Antarctic

    Its extremely low temperatures make Antarctica the coldest continent on Earth.

    … Climate of the Antarctic Its extremely low temperatures make Antarctica the coldest continent on Earth. Source: M. Müller/UBA Antarctica is the driest and coldest continent on Earth. Only in the west temperatures reach the freezing point … the average inland winter temperatures of -60° to -70°C, making Antarctica the coldest continent on Earth. The lowest temperature recorded on site was measured at the …

  • Article from 27.01.2016 | Last changed: 29.02.2016

    Environmental monitoring on King George Island

    The Fildes Region is subject to high pressure of use. Environmental monitoring helps to show its effects.

    … Environmental monitoring on King George Island The Fildes Region is subject to high pressure of use. Environ. monitoring helps to show its … Consultative Parties at international level have resulted in a number of talks and workshops in recent years. UBA and Chile have been acting as head and coordinator of …

  • Article from 27.01.2016 | Last changed: 29.02.2016

    Monitoring projects in the Antarctic

    Regular environmental monitoring records whether and how Antarctica is changing as result of human influence

    … Intelligenz und Big Data am UBA Antragsformulare in der Übersicht Umweltprobenbank des Bundes Erhaltung der lebenden Meeresschätze der Antarktis Schutzgebiete unter der CAMLR-Konvention Related publications Terrestrial biological monitoring on Fildes Peninsula (Maxwell Bay, Antarctic) Detrimental effects of underwater noise …

  • Article from 23.07.2013 | Last changed: 29.02.2016

    The German Environment Agency and the Antarctic

    Protecting the Antarctic is one of the tasks of the Federal Environment Agency.

    … Antarctic. UBA also commissions research projects.UBA also hosts expert events and workshops, whose purpose is mainly to discuss open questions about enforcement of … Who uses the work and services of the German Environment Agency? Source: Umweltbundesamt Associated content Links Umweltschutzprotokoll-Ausführungsgesetz (AUG) …