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  • Article from 10.01.2018 | Last changed: 10.01.2018

    Spatial planning law

    Industrial facilities on the river

    … planning law construction of more and more new industrial facilities destroys the landscape Source: fotolehmann / Fotolia.com Many projects that make use of land … soil sealing or even degradation of natural soils, for example as a result of the construction of buildings or industrial facilities. Landscape fragmentation by … land. Soils are not renewable within an assessable period of time. Land use for human settlement, transport and other purposes and the partial sealing of soil that …

  • Article from 19.06.2024 | Last changed: 20.06.2024

    International environmental law

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    … International environmental law Statutory regulations are aimed protection of the environment. Source: AllebaziB / Fotolia.com Global environmental problems … regulations alone. Action at international level is required to effectively protect the environment. For this reason the fields governed by international law also include international environmental …

  • Article from 13.06.2023 | Last changed: 11.08.2025

    Air monitoring networks

    … Air monitoring networks last update on 13.06.2023 Monitoring networks of the Federal Länder Up-to-date air quality data from the monitoring networks of the … and transboundary air pollution Air-borne pollutants are often imperceptible to the human senses. They are invisible yet always present in moving air masses. Some air … Germany, are operated for this purpose. In order to cover only such air masses that move over long distances and across national frontiers, these sites are as far away …

  • 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, then wash Source: Lena Aebli / Ecologic Institut 2024 … die Lebenswelt im Wasser und die menschliche Gesundheit auswirken. Die rund 1.300 Humanarzneimittelwirkstoffe mit möglicher Umweltrelevanz entsprechen einem …

  • Article from 26.10.2023 | Last changed: 07.02.2024

    NonHazCity 3 Interreg Project

    Logo NonHazCity3

    … NonHazCity 3 Interreg Project NonHazCity 3 partner cities on the Baltic Sea want to avoid pollutants in, from and around buildings Source: … energy industry and other sea-based activities Tags Baltic Sea green procurement human health water protection hazardous substance zero pollution ambition … …

  • Article from 07.02.2023 | Last changed: 14.11.2024

    Relevant Micropollutants

    … Which micropollutants are an environmental risk for water bodies and should therefore be scrutinised more closely? This is evaluated by the Committee for the identification of relevant micropollutants made up of experts … according to relevance criteria Equivalent additional grounds for concern Human toxicology and ecotoxicology Assessment Decision by the  Committee for the

  • 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

    … agriculture: How can this succeed? Source: Christian Tietz / UBA Climate action in the agricultural sector is complex. It becomes even more 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, …

  • 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 the scope of site contamination and former waste …

  • 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 waste treatment, …

  • 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

    … Digital services / Cloud computing Digital services from the cloud must be as energy-efficient as possible Source: Blue Planet Studio / Adobe … 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 … sensitivity analysis shows that it is not always more favourable to the climate to move IT services to the cloud. What is important is the equipment of the local …

  • Article from 17.11.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2020

    Environmental awareness in Germany

    People walking in a park.

    … Environmental protection and climate action as a key challenge In addition to the scheduled survey of 2018, an intermediate survey including key time-series questions was carried out in the early summer of 2019. Out of all the problems which Germany faced in 2018 and again in 2019, environmental protection …

  • Article from 14.10.2020 | Last changed: 28.04.2023

    Curbing overdevelopment

    … alone amounted to 47 square meters in 2011 – a figure that is likely to rise. At the same time, new construction on greenfield land is on the rise, while increasing … rates and fewer housing starts. Since 2011, the euro crisis combined with the free movement of workers has resulted in increased immigration to Germany. This has in … municipalities to implement conservative land use practices by imposing limits on human settlement and by funding both intra- and inter-municipal development and …