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  • Article from 07.07.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Activities at the federal level

    Activities at the federal level Soil protection and contaminated-site remediation fall to the federal government under the BBodSchG law and BBodSchV regulation, and are enforced by … (Federal Budget Code) and in accordance with the principle of sustainability. … Activities at the federal level

  • Article from 04.07.2013 | Last changed: 15.12.2025

    Site remediation

    … to be achieved via site remediation. Instead, the law allows the authorities considerable leeway in such matters, an approach that has proven to be highly effective. … The criteria for hazard assessments are governed by the Gefahrenbeurteilung sind in der Bundes-Bodenschutz- und Altlastenverordnung (BBodSchV) regulation, whose Annex 2 … or deleterious soil changes are justified, and a detailed investigation should be undertaken. In cases where contaminant concentration or content falls below the …

  • Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    Effects chain – Example ‘coastal and marine protection’

    … the melting of glaciers and polar ice shields, this expansion of the seas is considered a crucial cause of global sea level rise. The sea levels on North Sea and … by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the scenario entitled ‘Der fossile Weg’ (The fossil pathway, SSP5-8.5) predicts a probable increase of sea …

  • Article from 30.06.2025 | Last changed: 01.07.2025

    Structural policy for the socio-ecological transformation

    … help shape economic change through funding measures. To this end, politicians consider what is important to them in the economy and then usually create financial … to regions which are less economically powerful. In the summer of 2024, the Federal Government published the first Equivalence Report . The report uses various … – Lessons learnt from structural change processes in Germany Weiterentwicklung der regionalen Strukturpolitik in Deutschland zu einer ökologisch nachhaltigen, …

  • Article from 11.08.2022 | Last changed: 13.10.2025

    Fachbibliothek Umwelt (Environmental Library)

    View into the environmental library in Dessau

    … 2024 The current opening hours of the three library branches can be found under the following link: https://doku.uba.de/ The UBA office building … (Bismarckplatz) will remain closed until about 2025/26 due to renovation and modernization work. The address of the temporary accommodation, which will also … OPAC (Online-Public-Access-Catalogue) enables users to search the stock of the Federal Environment Agency's Library and to determine their availability and location. …

  • Article from 10.08.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Remediation technology

    … measures are necessary and in keeping with the principle of proportionality, in order to comply with statutory hazard prevention requirements. This proportionality … as well as for any necessary monitoring of a given cleaned up site, can vary considerably. Thanks to the availability of a network of expert engineering providers and the related clean-up infrastructure, a host of solutions and technical …

  • Article from 26.11.2018 | Last changed: 13.02.2025

    Leaching tests for emissions from building products

    … are dissolved of a construction product using water as solvent (eluent) under specified conditions. The eluted substances in the eluates generated in the test … all the mortar tests carried out. The very good consistency of the test results under the various test conditions shows that the analysed test methods are appropriate … the leaching behaviour by using one test. TOC release of reinforcement plaster under varying test conditions Source: Umweltbundesamt Downloads: diagram and legend as …

  • Article from 24.09.2015 | Last changed: 24.09.2015

    Plant protection products

    Bauer brings out pesticides in his field

    … as spraying agents for seed treatment or in granular form. According to the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety , 691 plant protection products … About one half of total land area in Germany is used for agriculture (Source: Federal Statistical Office , 2009). Each year an average of around nine kilogrammes of … and they are applied to the environment in relatively large amounts in order to protect plants against pests (animals, plants, fungi, bacteria or viruses). …

  • Article from 07.05.2020 | Last changed: 25.06.2024

    Changing direction rather than ramping things up

    … with impatience, but also with hope. Link: https://www.wirtschaftsdienst.eu/inhalt/jahr/2019/heft/8/beitrag/ein-zukunftsfonds-fuer-deutschland.html ______ … 2008 through 2016. His most recent publication is Jetzt! Opposition, Protest, Widerstand (Cologne 2019).   Tags coronavirus pandemic … I sit by the roadside. The … 2008 through 2016. His most recent publication is Jetzt! Opposition, Protest, Widerstand (Cologne 2019).   … Changing direction rather than ramping things up …

  • Article from 16.05.2024 | Last changed: 22.05.2024

    SuMaHO-principles for Management of Harmful Organisms

    … are deemed necessary, unintentional side effects on antagonists need to be considered during choice of measures. Analyse the situation : Presence of harmful … to select appropriate measures. It should reflect what is realistic and expedient under the circumstances on site. Legal requirements as well as potential consequences … are deemed necessary, unintentional side effects on antagonists need to be considered during choice of measures. Analyse the situation : Presence of harmful …

  • Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    BO-I-3: Rainfall erosivity

    The legend comprises six categories for the rainfall erosivity (unit: kilojoules per square metre multiplied by millimetres per hour) as a district average for the years 2017 to 2021.

    … falls as rain, and when this rain falls on patchy vegetation cover on soils under agricultural use, the outcome may involve substantial soil losses. Furthermore, … increases the risk of wind erosion. On the predominantly sandy soils in northern Länder near the coast, wind is one of the foremost causes of erosion. Primarily, soil … in existing BDF is the only measuring approach to cover all of Germany’s Länder for the purpose of long-term data collection on soil erosion nationwide. …

  • Article from 14.01.2025 | Last changed: 30.01.2025

    Shaping environmental policy in a socially responsible way

    Reichstag building

    … to major financial burdens. The regular representative surveys conducted by the Federal Ministry for the Environment and the ⁠UBA⁠ on “ environmental awareness in … affected by climate change impacts, such as ⁠ heat stress ⁠. This results in considerable health-related follow-up costs that have to be borne by society as a whole. …