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  • 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

    … regional, climatic, cultural and political circumstances of agriculture around the world. Greenhouse gas reduction and climate adaptation, food security, … agenda item was entitled “Issues related to agriculture” and later became the work programmes “Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture” (2017-2022) and “Sharm el-Sheikh …

  • Article from 10.08.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Military and armament contaminated sites

    … Publications Bestandsaufnahme von Rüstungsaltlastverdachtsstandorten in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Modellhafte Altlastenuntersuchung an ausgewählten Standorten der Munitionszerlegung und -vernichtung nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg Documents Internationale Erfahrungen - …

  • Article from 23.03.2015 | Last changed: 13.11.2017

    Thermal treatment

    waste incineration plant

    … electricity and heat in the thermal treatment Source: Bernd Engelmann / Umweltbundesamt Thermal waste treatment, which is one of the mainstays of waste disposal in … were transposed into German law via 17. Verordnung zur Durchführung des Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetzes (Verordnung über die Verbrennung und die Mitverbrennung von Abfällen – 17. BImSchV), which applies to all waste …

  • Article from 13.06.2022 | Last changed: 22.07.2025

    Sustainable mobility

    LKW und Pkw auf der Autobahn

    … Germany has more than tripled since 1960. Currently, transport is the source of around one fifth of total greenhouse gas emissions in Germany. How can the mobility of … important to avoid and shift traffic. The avoidance of traffic is often misunderstood: The primary goal is not to prevent traffic, but rather to shorten … Germany has more than tripled since 1960. Currently, transport is the source of around one fifth of total greenhouse gas emissions in Germany. How can the mobility of …

  • Article from 01.04.2022 | Last changed: 08.12.2022

    Digitalisation as engine of transformation for a green economy

    a green globe lies in green grass, inside it the word "CO2" with three arrows pointing down. Around the globe placed five icons: Wind turbines, e-car, solar plant, power plant and hand with leaves.

    … unites the entire range of economic policies relevant to sustainable development under one umbrella. Green Economy is thus the guiding principle of an ecologically … green economy while ensuring the sustainability of digitalisation. For this broader understanding of a green economy, policymakers need information on the potential of … Green Economy” (in German). Associated content Links Factsheet Digitale Techniken und Green Economy Publications Digitalisierung als Transformationsmotor für eine …

  • Article from 05.03.2025 | Last changed: 05.03.2025

    Distributing drinking water

    … born contaminants in contact with drinking water. Related contents Anerkennung und Harmonisierung – 4MS-Initiative Bewertungsgrundlagen und Leitlinien Bezugswerte zur Bewertung von Spurenstoffen in Gewässern …

  • Landing page from 22.10.2025

    Green public procurement

    Each year, German contracting authorities purchase around €300 billion worth of products ranging from pencils to city buses. This massive purchasing power can potentially be used to reduce environmental pollution, improve environmental product and service range, and promote more targeted market launches of innovative eco-friendly products.

  • Article from 01.08.2024 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    Soil Investigation Advisory Board (FBU)

    … section 25 of the German Federal Soil Protection and Contaminated Sites Ordinance (Bundes-Bodenschutz- und Altlastenverordnung - BBodSchV). The FBU creates the formal prerequisites for … and this determination is published by the BMUV in the Federal Gazette. Background On March 1 st 1999, the Federal Soil Protection Act ( Bundesbodenschutzgesetz - …

  • Article from 10.04.2025 | Last changed: 12.01.2026

    Visit us

     The UBA building in Dessau-Roßlau from above. The building is elongated, with a façade of wood and coloured glass slabs and slanted solar cells covering the entire surface of the flat roof

  • Article from 21.07.2023 | Last changed: 12.01.2026

    Document templates

    … are published on the UBA website. As a federal agency, we are obliged by law under the Ordinance on Accessible Information Technology (BITV 2.0) to make our … Umwelt und Gesundheit Serial Umwelt, Innovation, Beschäftigung Advisory Assistance Programme Englisch Report Advisory Assistance Programme Deutsch Bericht …