… 88/09 | 02.12.2009   The following are examples of positive developments: Greenhouse gas emissions were reduced by 22.4 percent from 1990 to 2007. Germany has … euros. 109 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions were saved through the use of renewables. The productivity of energy use in the German economy rose by 40.7 … Agency sees need for action in the following areas: In 2007, the land area used for settlement and transport purposes amounted to 46,789 square kilometres …

… trips by car in 2008. The Federal Environment Agency sees the reasons for the heavy use of the automobile to commute to work as rooted in the fact that most employers … by air or company car. Things are different at UBA: there is a 70-percent rate of use of bus and rail among employees for domestic business trips; one fifth of … on site through addition in September 2009 of a high-quality folding bicycle used for official business. The bicycle can be taken on board ICE trains as luggage …

… roads with heavy traffic, and the child’s bedroom in nearly three thirds of the households in this group faces the street. The latter group shows a tendency to have … music. No direct correlation between the information in the questionnaire about the use of music players with headphones (e.g. MP3 players) and hearing capacity has yet … children. 44.6 percent of the children aged 8 to 10 and 70.3 percent aged 11 to 14 use such equipment to listen to music. In the latter age group average listening …

… waters and 93.7 percent of coastal bathing waters complied with limit values. The cause can in all likelihood be attributed to the weather (a very warm spring followed … including construction measures, change of designated use, or too few bathers using the site.  In April 2006, the EU Commission began legal proceedings for breach … This was in spite of the fact that these bathing areas continued to be actively used. Germany responded to these accusations and detailed the circumstances of every …