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  • DzU article from 06.10.2025 | Last changed: 19.11.2025

    Indicator: Amount of waste – municipal waste

    A graph shows the amount of municipal waste from 2010 to 2023. During this period the amount decreased from 49.2 million tonnes to 48.9 million tonnes.

    … highest priority to the prevention of waste. Waste that is not generated does not cause any environmental impacts, which would otherwise be caused by its collection, sorting and further  recycling or dumping. Germany's total …

  • DzU article from 30.01.2025 | Last changed: 30.01.2025

    Indicator: Nitrate in groundwater

    A graph shows the proportion of groundwater sampling sites where nitrate measurements for the years 2008 to 2023 were above 25 and 50 milligrams per litre. In the period covered, neither sub-indicator has shown any significant change.

    … of a national monitoring program. The agricultural input of nutrients is the main cause of high nitrate concentrations in groundwater. Environmental importance In … However, the fertiliser is often not applied correctly for the specific site and use. Excessive nitrogen is leached out and ends up as nitrate in the groundwater and … found Germany guilty of violating the EU Nitrates Directive ( Rs. C-543/16 ) because the directive had not been implemented adequately and the measures taken so far …

  • KomPass: Area of action adaptation from 11.01.2022 | Last changed: 08.01.2026

    Adaptation: Field of action finance and insurance sector

    Macro photo of a European cent coin

    … standardised disclosures on climate-related financial risks that companies can use to provide information to lenders, insurers, investors and other stakeholders. … standardised disclosures on climate-related financial risks that companies can use to provide information to lenders, insurers, investors and other stakeholders. …

  • Newsletter from 05.08.2021 | Last changed: 05.08.2021

    Newsletter "UBA aktuell" - No.: 4/2021

    … The devastating floods after heavy rainfall this July, as well as the damage caused by heat and drought in Germany in recent years, clearly show: The time is … and updating of legal and financial frameworks and measures, such as land (re)use (e.g. extent of sealing and deforestation), or risk mapping for local heavy …

  • Newsletter from 11.12.2023 | Last changed: 11.12.2023

    Newsletter "UBA aktuell" - No.: 6/2023

    … view of the German Environment Agency, jeopardises the EU’s plans of halving the use of pesticides. We hope you find it an interesting read, The Press Office of the … for the most plausible climate ambition, and setting a domestic 2040 net greenhouse gas… Series Scientific Opinion Paper Page number 25 Year of publication 2023 … to the draft EU regulation on pesticide reduction. This goal is to be verified using pesticide sales data. In the view of the German Environment Agency this method …

  • KomPass: Area of action climate impact from 06.01.2023 | Last changed: 07.01.2026

    Climate Impacts: Field of Action Biological Diversity

    colourful flowering summer meadow

    … (i.e. day length). An increase in temperature due to climate change can cause a temporal shift in these development and activity phases of plants and animals. … which react very sensitive to changing climatic conditions. Global warming can cause changes in their occurrence, dispersal, migration behaviour, habitat selection … behaviour of long-distance migrants has changed much more slowly so far because it is genetically predetermined. For some of these species it is difficult to …

  • DzU article from 12.05.2025 | Last changed: 13.05.2025

    Indicator: Eutrophication of the North Sea/Baltic Sea by nitrogen

    A graph shows the change in the concentration of total nitrogen in all major rivers that discharge into the North and Baltic Sea in Germany and indicates the target value of 2.8 or 2.6 mg/L total nitrogen for North and Baltic Sea, respectively. The concentration value is calculated as the 5-year moving average of the flow-weighted mean concentration of all major rivers in milligrams total nitrogen per litre (mg/L).

    … North and Baltic Sea still fail to achieve “good ecological status”. The main cause of this are the excessive nutrient loads of nitrogen and phosphorous … fluctuate significantly depending on the weather and hydrological conditions, because in years with high precipitation more nitrogen leaches out of the soils. For … the flow-weighted average based on each rivers’ individual discharge is used for the indicator. In order to compensate for annual precipitation-induced …

  • Appointment from 24.03.2025

    International online conference ‚Green Cooling Summit 2025‘

    Aggregat einer Wärmepumpe vor einer Hausfassade

    … of CO 2 the entire world emitted in 1950 ( The World in Data ). Furthermore, the use of refrigerants with high global warming potential (GWP) exacerbates the problem … life sustainable options. The Green Cooling Summit 2025 addresses suppliers and endusers of building air conditioning technologies as well as architects, construction …

  • Appointment from 29.06.2020

    Web-Seminar: RESCUE

    … 30th, 2020 13:30 — 14:30 Web-Seminar "Resource-Efficient Pathways towards Greenhouse Gas-Neutrality (RESCUE)" with Michael Bloss (Member of European Parliament) & … of natural resources. Driven by population growth and economic development, global use of material resources has increased tremendously in recent years and is expected … explore six different transformation pathways towards Germany in 2050 as a greenhouse-gas (GHG) neutral and resource-efficient country in Europe, and discuss the …

  • Cover from 11.09.2015

    Greener Agriculture

    Pesticides are widely used

    … for a Bluer Baltic Sea Agenda Information Registration Location: Ozeaneum, Meeresmuseum, Stralsund Germany Date: 5-6 November 2015 The Greener Agriculture for a Bluer … role in the event. Report from 2014 conference … Location: Ozeaneum, Meeresmuseum, Stralsund Germany Date: 5-6 November 2015 The Greener Agriculture for a Bluer …

  • Press release 25/2021 from 31.05.2021 | Last changed: 10.06.2021

    UBA proposes multisectoral cap on nitrogen

    Eine Pflanze und Stickstoff-Verbindungen (Montage)

    … protection and fertiliser law. Even then, this represents a first step only, because further efforts are needed to reduce nitrogen emissions are necessary to achieve … rapid implementation and as a milestone target, which is why the overall target focuses on current policy targets rather than achievement of good environmental status … fertiliser application and fuel combustion processes in transport. However, energy use, households and the production of consumer goods are also contributing factors. …