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  • Press release 32/2023 from 15.09.2023 | Last changed: 30.11.2023

    European Mobility Week: Sustainable mobility saves energy

    A banner reads: "European Mobility Week 16 to 22 September Mix and Move! - climate-friendly mobility."

    … – whether with the X8 all-terrain wheelchair, the Outdoor Active Challenge or guided hikes. In addition, the support materials of the EMW national coordination …

  • Press release 07/2020 from 12.02.2020 | Last changed: 08.04.2020

    Art and the environment “Zero Waste” exhibition in Leipzig

    Ein Frauengesicht mit Plastikstücken

    … by an extensive programme of events with activists and scientists. Dialogical guided tours with experts from different fields and a film screening with subsequent … “Art and the Environment” series. The project is rounded off by panel discussions, guided tours, conversations with the artists and workshops for the public and the …

  • Press release 42/2022 from 29.09.2022 | Last changed: 04.10.2022

    Pandemic triggered slight decline in 2020 packaging consumption

    Separated packaging in the household, collected in boxes. Glass, cardboard, plastic, etc.

    … Increases in recycling rates can be seen for all materials. The accuracy of the values at the new quota interface may be affected in the first few years. However, if one compares the values at the previous point of intersection (input to the first recycling …

  • Press release 30/2017 from 06.09.2017 | Last changed: 18.09.2017

    Urban Mining

    Skyline einer Großstadt von oben, abends, Hochhäuser, Straßen, Schienen

    … costs for materials, and the economy as a whole as a result of increasing domestic value added. The recycling industry is already a driver of innovation and source of … to prevent the opening of new quarries or gravel pits. The greatest financial value is in disused metals such as the iron girders, steel reinforcements or copper …

  • Press release 32/2010 from 04.06.2010 | Last changed: 12.07.2013

    Federal Environment Agency: Unecological subsidies cost 48 billion euros

    … aviation has long benefited from the tax exemption on kerosene. Moreover, no value added tax is charged for international flights. As a result, the state lost … applicable throughout the EU at the least- as well as charging an EU-wide value added tax on transnational flights within the Union in the medium term. The …

  • Press release 17/2016 from 22.04.2016 | Last changed: 23.01.2017

    UBA measures new record highs for carbon dioxide

    Building of the air quality measuring station on a snow-covered slope

    … of CO 2 at that time. The data for 2015 has now been evaluated, and the annual mean values are: 402.5 ppm on the Schauinsland, and 400.4 ppm on the Zugspitze. The measured values on Germany's highest peak are particularly representative because it lies in …

  • Press release 39/2025 from 18.11.2025 | Last changed: 04.12.2025

    Clean Air at a Glance: UBA Publishes New Air Quality Index and Updated App

    Zwei Smartphones auf lila-farbenem Hintergrund. Aufschrift: Wie gut ist die Luft, die sie atmen?

    … health risks when assessing air quality in Germany and to incorporate the current guidelines of the World Health Organisation ( WHO ⁠) and the EU Air Quality … mortality. Forecasts  of air pollutant concentrations are also displayed as index values, ranging from very good to very poor. Thanks to the hourly updated index …

  • News from 10.03.2014 | Last changed: 08.04.2014

    Greenhouse gas emissions rise again slightly in 2013

    smoking chimneys

    … rose again slightly in 2013, by 1.2 per cent compared to the previous year. 10.03.2014 These are the preliminary results of first estimates by the Federal Environment …