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The Federal Ministry for the Environment and the German Environment Agency are celebrating the winners of the German Ecodesign Award 2025 in Berlin today. The award-winning projects demonstrate the broad spectrum of sustainable design today. read more
Dear Reader, The website Distributing Drinking Water, Evaluation Criteria and Guidelines has been updated as follows: Evaluation criteria for plastics and other organic materials in contact with drinking water including 6th amendment Direct link: Evaluation criteria for plastics and other organic materials in contact with drinking water Amendments can be reviewed in the German Federal Gazette (o... read more
Dear Reader, The website Distributing Drinking Water, Evaluation Criteria and Guidelines has been updated as follows: Evaluation criteria document for enamels and ceramic materials in contact with drinking water - 4th amendment - Direct link: Evaluation criteria document for enamels and ceramic materials Amendments can be reviewed in the German Federal Gazette (only in German): 4th amendment as... read more
Wie gut ist die Luft, die wir atmen? Der neue Luftqualitätsindex des Umweltbundesamtes (UBA) liefert künftig Antworten auf Basis aktueller wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse. Zudem wurden die UBA-App „Luftqualität“ und das Luftdaten-Portal modernisiert – für präzisere Informationen, verständliche Verhaltenstipps und eine noch nutzerfreundlichere Darstellung der aktuellen Luftqualität in Deutschland. read more
Dear Reader, On the German website Distributing Drinking Water, Evaluation Criteria and Guidelines the amended UBA information “Hygienic requirements for materials in contact with drinking water - New European regulation according to Directive (EU) 2020/2184” was published as REV02. Direct link: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/document/uba-information-hygienic-requirements-for-materials Your de... read more
The mechanism, which protects against carbon leakage and thus against the relocation of industrial production outside Europe, will be limited to large import volumes of relevant basic materials produced outside the EU. Small importers in the basic materials sector will be exempt from the obligations as of January 1, 2026. read more
Umweltbundesamt spricht sich für verstärkte Renaturierung von Flüssen und Bächen aus read more
Welcome to the new issue of ‘The Latest from UBA’!These days, many purchases are made online. But how sustainable actually is online shopping? In this edition, we present the exciting findings of a German Environment Agency (UBA) study on this topic. Additionally, we look at, among other things, which outstanding projects have been nominated for the Federal Ecodesign Award this year, how to reduce... read more
The UBA’s motto, For our environment (“Für Mensch und Umwelt”), sums up our mission pretty well, we feel. In this video we give an insight into our work.
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