… 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 … This instrument can also act as an incentive for the exporting states to do more to protect the climate. The EU will introduce a carbon border adjustment …
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… 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 … is called EMEP (European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme). In this programme, more than one hundred stations in 25 countries measure transboundary air pollution. …
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… 2022-2025 Dialogue on Micropollutants A stakeholder dialogue on voluntary and manufacturer-responsible measures for mitigating micropollutants in water bodies … ISI (project management, content-related technical support of the process) and IKU GmbH (process design and moderation), the Centre for Micropollutants has … The goal is therefore to implement solutions and measures to reduce micropollutants more efficiently. Associated content Links National Water Strategy BMUV: National …
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… 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? …
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… Micropollutants Which micropollutants are an environmental risk for water bodies and should therefore be scrutinised more closely? This is evaluated by the Committee for the identification of relevant … made up of experts from authorities, industry, academia, environmental and water associations. This page lists the micropollutants that have been evaluated …
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… Tietz / UBA Climate action in the agricultural sector is complex. It becomes even more complex when looking at the many different national, regional, climatic, cultural and political circumstances of agriculture around the world. Greenhouse gas …
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… 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 …
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… Thermal treatment Waste incineration plants generate electricity and heat in the thermal treatment Source: Bernd Engelmann / Umweltbundesamt Thermal … all such facilities, incineration energy is recovered to generate electricity, heat and/or process steam. last update on 23.03.2015 Thermal waste treatment All of … efficiency of such facilities averages around 50 percent. If these facilities were more efficiently integrated into the relevant grids, they could provide a …
… be used to reduce environmental pollution, improve environmental product and service range, and promote more targeted market launches of innovative eco-friendly products. Green public …
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… the expert committee according to section 25 of the German Federal Soil Protection and Contaminated Sites Ordinance (Bundes-Bodenschutz- und Altlastenverordnung - … creates the formal prerequisites for being able to apply newer measurement methods and procedures despite the normative references to standards in the BBodSchV. last … of substance contents in soils is subject to uncertainties. This makes it all the more important to specify the uncertainties in order to make appropriate decisions. …
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