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Dear reader, Germany has accomplished quite a bit when it comes to protecting the climate – something which unfortunately cannot be said about the transport sector. The sector is at a standstill, its 2016 emissions even 2 million tons higher than in 1990. So what is the remedy? A phase-out of environmentally harmful subsidies for the transport sector, which currently benefits from 28 billion... read more

Dear reader,Germany spent the lordly sum of 57 billion euros on environmentally harmful subsidies in 2012, for example in the coal and lignite industries. These funds can be put to better use in future. Read more about it in the new issue of the “UBA aktuell” Newsletter.In close connection with this issue we are also issuing recommendations for the urgently needed turnaround in agricultural policy... read more