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  • Article from 19.05.2025 | Last changed: 13.06.2025

    Testing facility of Pests of Public Health Importance

    two rats

    … Protection against Infection Act (Infektionsschutzgesetz - IfSG). The UBA is the federal authority responsible for this approval and publishes information on its … companies, a guideline for testing and evaluating rodent traps has been developed under the leadership of Division IV 1.4 (NoCheRo guideline, see publications). Associated content …

  • Article from 26.09.2023 | Last changed: 26.09.2023

    Harmonisation of health assessment – LCI values and EU-LCI values

    An attic floor will be finished.

    … emission limits (EU-LCI values). The procedure used by the EU-LCI Working Group to derive these European reference values for emissions from construction products into indoor air has been agreed with all stakeholders and published in ECA Report No 29 . Updates on progress made in the derivation of EU-LCIs are available on the EU-LCI website . The German Environment …

  • Article from 22.05.2019 | Last changed: 28.05.2019

    Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

    … Evaluation of the environmental quality standard of POP in 2014-2016 Source: Federal Environment Agency based on data supplied by Working Group of the Federal States on Water Issues (LAWA) - 2018 Bans or limits on the production, use and … PCB in suspended solids in the Elbe river. Germany's National Implementation Plan under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants contains an overview …

  • Article from 24.06.2020 | Last changed: 25.06.2020

    RESCUE – Resource-Efficient Pathways to Greenhouse-Gas-Neutrality

    picture symbolizing the interdependencies between greenhouse gas emissions and raw material use

    … transition process will require measures that go beyond immediate GHG abatement. Understanding the resource and raw material demands for the transition appears just as … pathway will combine the most effective measures from the previous scenarios in order to reduce GHG-emissions and raw material demand up to 2050. Main results of the … emitted CO2 from the atmosphere through natural carbon sinks such as forests in order to mitigate GHG-emissions. The use of natural carbon sinks is central for …

  • Article from 30.09.2025 | Last changed: 01.10.2025

    Resources Commission at the UBA (currently inactive)

    Excavators at work in an open pit

    … of key issues and developments on the sustainable use of natural resources, considering in particular associated environmental impacts and social aspects along the … policy and joint communication of findings to policy-makers and society in order to further strengthen sustainable resource use in Germany, the EU, and globally. Contributing to a better understanding of sustainable levels of natural resource use. Work areas during the …

  • Article from 29.02.2016 | Last changed: 29.02.2016

    Airguns - an underestimated disruptive factor

    Finnwal

    Airguns - an underestimated disruptive factor Airguns in the Antarctic – Underwater noise in one of the last refuges of rare marine mammals Source: Sebastian … at the annual meetings of Consultative Parties to the Antarctic Treaty (ATCM). … Airguns - an underestimated disruptive factor

  • Article from 18.03.2014 | Last changed: 23.10.2020

    Erhard Collection: „Waste – A look back”

    a man in a street collecting waste

    … managing it until the beginning of the 1960s. Towards the end of the 1960s, the federally owned "Zentralstelle für Abfallbeseitigung (ZfA)" (“Central Office for Waste … Sammlung Erhard Hofstandgefäß (Solingen 1909) Source: Sammlung Erhard Heraustragen der Mülltonnen mittels Tragegurt, Lübeck (1928) Source: Sammlung Erhard … für das Wechseltonnensystem, Crefeld (1913) Source: Sammlung Erhard Abfuhr der Wechseltonnen, Dortmund (1928) Source: Sammlung Erhard Wechselbodensystem, …

  • Article from 17.06.2025 | Last changed: 10.10.2025

    Switchgear

    Illustration of a typical gas-insulated switchgear

    … time, this substance accumulates in the atmosphere. Fluorinated alternatives fall under the PFAS definition Electrical switchgear containing fluorinated greenhouse … the planned commissioning is before the prohibition dates of Art. 13 Para. 9, a tendering procedure can be useful. If commissioning is postponed beyond the ban dates, … to be examined more closely. A workshop on the topic was held with selected stakeholders in May 2023. Further research will follow. The results will be published at the …

  • Article from 11.07.2024 | Last changed: 11.07.2024

    Eco-friendly transport refrigeration

    … gases and thus enhance the global warming. In transport refrigeration considerable savings could potentially be realized not only in energy consumption but … with CO2 (2018) 2000 reefer containers cooling with CO2 in operation (2018) First order of reefer containers with refrigerant CO2 (2017) CO2- cooled shipping Container … Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases Publications Nachhaltige Kälteerzeugung – Untersuchung der Energieeffizienz natürlicher Kältemittel in Transportkälteanlagen Related …

  • Article from 27.06.2025 | Last changed: 10.10.2025

    German emissions of fluorinated greenhouse gases

    … UNFCCC Reporting Guidelines IPCC Reporting Guidelines Publications Implementierung der ab dem Berichtsjahr 2013 gültigen IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas … Inventarerhebung fluorierter Treibhausgase (HFKW, FKW, SF6, NF3) Inventarermittlung der F-Gase 2017/2018 Inventarermittlung der F-Gase 2019/2020 Inventarermittlung der F-Gase 2021/2022 Related publications …

  • Article from 02.08.2019 | Last changed: 19.08.2019

    Information on the O3 exceedance table

    … data recorded at its own stations and in the German States measuring network in order to provide the public with information about exceedances quickly and promptly. … of the measuring instruments themselves. Related contents Indikator: Heiße Tage Der Luftqualitätsindex (LQI) des Umweltbundesamtes Kurzanleitung für das …

  • Article from 06.03.2025 | Last changed: 06.03.2025

    Formaldehyde

    Gronspanplatten gestapelt

    … from them may contain formaldehyde as an adhesive component. Formaldehyde is considered to be carcinogenic. We answer the most important questions from the … cosmetics and textiles. What is being done to protect my health? In order to protect the health of the general population, defined formaldehyde … Committee on Indoor Air Guide Values ( AIR ), consisting of experts from the federal government and the federal states in Germany, develops guide values for the …