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  • Article from 10.01.2018 | Last changed: 10.01.2018

    Spatial planning law

    Industrial facilities on the river

    … Spatial planning law construction of more and more new industrial facilities destroys the landscape Source: fotolehmann / Fotolia.com Many projects that make use of land can … governance and development, that is to say conflicting individual interests and higher interests such as environmental protection must be settled as fairly as …

  • Article from 19.06.2024 | Last changed: 20.06.2024

    International environmental law

    paragraphs

    … strategies for combating climate change: reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to unavoidable climate change. For some time now there has been an increasing political focus on ideas and suggestions designed to combat climate change by using technological means to … policy option. See our article Geoengineering-Governance . Environmental migration and international law Around the world, people are threatened by serious …

  • Article from 13.06.2023 | Last changed: 11.08.2025

    Air monitoring networks

    … Länder can be answered there by qualified staff. Baden-Wurttemberg Bavaria Berlin Brandenburg Bremen Hamburg Hesse Mecklenburg-West Pomerania Lower Saxony North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland Saxony Saxony-Anhalt Schleswig-Holstein Thuringia Measurement of long-range and …

  • Article from 07.02.2023 | Last changed: 14.11.2024

    Relevant Micropollutants

    … Micropollutants Which micropollutants are an environmental risk for water bodies and should therefore be scrutinised more closely? This is evaluated by the Committee … made up of experts from authorities, industry, academia, environmental and water associations. This page lists the micropollutants that have been evaluated … dossier is divided into: Application Selected data on occurrence in water bodies and biota Micropollutant properties according to relevance criteria Equivalent …

  • 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

    … 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, biodiversity, land rights and land use … sectors (e.g. fertiliser production, energy consumption on the farm) or leads to higher indirect emissions through increased fertiliser use and/or feed production …

  • 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 … military sites, contact the competent federal or regional-state authorities. … Military and armament contaminated sites …

  • Article from 17.11.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2020

    Environmental awareness in Germany

    People walking in a park.

    … Source: LauraTara / pixabay.com last update on 17.11.2020 Environmental protection and climate action as a key challenge In addition to the scheduled survey of 2018, … in the early summer of 2019. Out of all the problems which Germany faced in 2018 and again in 2019, environmental protection and climate action took precedence over every other challenge for the people …

  • 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

    … as possible Source: Blue Planet Studio / Adobe Stock Home office, videoconferencing and streaming 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 in servers, data storage systems and network technology? We took a closer look. last update on 10.01.2022 Research …

  • Article from 21.01.2026 | Last changed: 21.01.2026

    Imprint

    … by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN), which in turn is represented by the president of the … number: DE811317238 Person in charge Florian Kuhlmey Press officer & Head of „Press and Public Relations, Internet“ Umweltbundesamt Buchholzweg 8 13627 Berlin Web site … Waste | Resources: eyetronic / Adobe Stock Air: James Thew / Adobe Stock Water: Andrey Armyagov / Adobe Stock Soil | Land: pingpao / Adobe Stock Agriculture: Stockr …

  • 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, … Diclofenac mit den derzeit gesetzlich vorgeschriebenen Verfahren der Abwasserbehandlung jedoch nur teilweise zurückgehalten werden. Wie ist die richtige Anwendung? …

  • Article from 04.12.2024 | Last changed: 05.12.2024

    Economic aspects of transport

    Stau auf einer Autobahn

    … last update on 04.12.2024 Economic considerations Although the transport of people and goods ensures mobility and a wide variety of products, it also incurs a number of costs. Whereas the … a result, there is a large of volume of transport performance whose total cost is higher than its benefit. In order to contain the economy’s transport volume to a …

  • Article from 14.10.2020 | Last changed: 28.04.2023

    Curbing overdevelopment

    … Curbing overdevelopment Average per capita land use in Germany for residential purposes alone amounted to 47 square meters in … a figure that is likely to rise. At the same time, new construction on greenfield land is on the rise, while increasing numbers of apartment buildings, other … experienced declines in both population and the numbers of households, resulting in higher vacancy rates and fewer housing starts. Since 2011, the euro crisis combined …