Data on the Environment 2015 | Umweltbundesamt

Environmental policy requires great staying power not only in terms of climate protection. A look at air pollution control and water protection shows that while harmful emissions to the environment are decreasing in many areas, this is no reason to sound the all clear. For example, only ten percent of rivers and streams in Germany and only about one percent of examined sections of North and Baltic Sea coasts exhibit good ecological status, mainly because nutrient loads are still too high.