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  • Press release 43/2020 from 21.09.2020 | Last changed: 25.09.2020

    30 years of unified Germany: a plus for the environment too

    Der Brocken im Nebel

    … – climate change remains greatest challenge The Brocken peak in the Harz, once used for espionage purposes, now lies in the Harz National Park. Source: ohenze / … as it is today. Electricity and heat in both East and West were largely generated using coal and oil. Accordingly, carbon dioxide emissions from the combustion of …

  • DzU article from 04.06.2025 | Last changed: 08.08.2025

    Indicator: Sustainable forestry

    A graph shows the percentage of woodland area certified under the PEFC or FSC sustainability standards from 2000 to 2024. In 2024, the PEFC covered 79.3 percent and the FSC 10.9 percent. The graph also shows the target for 2010.

    … Germany’s surface area is covered with forests. The majority of these forests are used for forestry. In the past, forest management mainly concentrated on high timber … droughts and attacks by pathogens. Soils are degraded by monocultures and the use of heavy machines. Biodiversity in these forests is generally lower than in …

  • Press release 078/09 from 09.11.2009 | Last changed: 19.07.2013

    Incentive programme also benefits schools

    … of volatile and semi-volatile organic substances. These substances can be the cause of lack of concentration and headaches. Press release No. 078/09 | 09.11.2009 … products must be well-balanced, however, so that an adhesive and floor covering used together, for example, do not result in any reactive outgasing. Using

  • Project of the Consulting Assistance Program from 31.05.2024

    Sustainable management of forests in Natura 2000 areas in the Smolyan region, Bulgaria

    … 01.09.2011 to 30.09.2013 The aim was to enable the protection and sustainable use of forests within Natura 2000 sites. The target groups were all decision-makers … Balkans project website … The aim was to enable the protection and sustainable use of forests within Natura 2000 sites. The target groups were all decision-makers …

  • News from 21.02.2019 | Last changed: 13.11.2019

    CO2 removal should be limited to safe and sustainable measures

    wet forest

    … global warming to 1.5°C. To achieve this, it is essential to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions towards zero. Additional measures are needed to remove CO2 from … yet they are a necessary supplement. Well suited for this are sustainable land use measures, such as soil carbon sequestration in agricultural soils, protection … implementation of BECCS increases competition with food production and other land uses, due to the required large areas of biomass production. It also can have …

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

    Adaptation: Field of Action Biological Diversity

    colourful flowering summer meadow

    … suitable alternate habitats by roads and the lack of continuity of the intensively used agricultural landscape for dispersal and migration movements. In the mountains, … can be taken to counter them. Regional web portals such as Neobiota-Nord are useful for this purpose. Should invasive species newly appear, the Federal Nature …