… Air Are we doing enough for human health and our environment? Effects research in … brochure presents the German national working groups for environmental monitoring and research which contribute to the Working Group on Effects (WGE) of CLRTAP. Their …

… Climate | Energy EU ETS: Detecting, preventing, and fighting money laundering in emissions trading … System (EU ETS). It is based on a survey of companies active in the Union Registry and their authorized representatives. Six recommendations are derived from the …

… Climate | Energy International Climate Initiatives – A way forward to close the emissions gap? Initiatives’ potential and role under the Paris Agreement Final Report In December 2015 Parties adopted the … agreed to limit global warming to “well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels” and to pursue to limit it to 1.5°C (UNFCCC 2015). The UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2016 …

… Sustainability | Strategies | International matters International Governance for Environmentally Sound Supply of Raw Materials – Policy Options and Recommendations With the demand for raw materials increasing worldwide and value chains spreading across …

… Climate | Energy International Climate Initiatives – A way forward to close the emissions gap? Initiatives’ potential and role under the Paris Agreement Discussion Paper In December 2015 Parties adopted … agreed to limit global warming to “well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels” and to pursue to limit it to 1.5°C (UNFCCC 2015). The UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2015 …

… Chemicals From theory to reality – Evaluation of suitable organisms and test systems for the … review In order to identify sensitive organisms, biological endpoints in vivo and suitable in vitro test systems for the biomonitoring of pharmaceuticals, a …

… Chemicals The Revision of the REACH Authorisation and Restriction System Recommendations by … in view of strengthening the level of protection from hazardous chemicals and simplifying the legal text. The German Environment Agency makes in this …

… Chemicals Pharmaceuticals in the environment: Global occurrence and potential cooperative … In a comprehensive literature review measured environmental concentrations of human and veterinary pharmaceutical substances reported worldwide were compiled in a …

… Climate | Energy Submission under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol 2016 National Inventory Report for the German Greenhouse Gas … on Climate Change (UNFCCC), since 1994 Germany has been obliged to prepare, publish and regularly update national emission inventories of greenhouse gases. In February …

… Chemicals, Waste | Resources The upcoming European Soil Health Law – chances and challenges for an effective soil … for the upcoming Soil Health Law. Feedback on legislative options is provided and experience gained in Germany in the past years on soil protection and …

… Agriculture Limited environmental impact and high costs Findings and recommendations from the project “An Evaluation of the Common Agricultural …