Press release from | No. 17/2014

UBA wins EU environmental management award

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The Federal Environment Agency in Dessau-Roßlau has won this year’s EMAS Award for outstanding innovative projects in the organisation’s environmental management. EU Commissioner for Environment Janez Potočnik presented the award to UBA in the "large organisation in the public sector" category at the Hanover Messe for the Agency’s Haus 2109 property. The building is the first office building in th... read more

Press release from | No. 14/2014

Adapting to climate change: take preventative action now to contain damages later

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Climate change will augment global risks such as poverty, pollution and the extinction of species which already exist and will slow down economic development. These are the facts reported in Part II of the current World Climate Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change which was published today in Yokohama, Japan. read more

Press release from | No. 12/2014

Veterinary drugs – a new problem for groundwater?

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Antibiotics are used on a large scale in industrialised farming, especially in pork and poultry production, but also for beef. The animals excrete most of these drugs unchanged. When such contaminated slurry is spread on fields, the drugs are also introduced into the environment. There is no conclusive data on how they affect the environment. Exactly how great is the danger that the drugs spread o... read more

Press release from | No. 11/2014

Sustainable Building Commission founded at Federal Environment Agency (KNB)

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The newly appointed Sustainable Building Commission at the Federal Environment Agency (KNB) will consult the Agency (UBA) on expert issues of sustainable building. In addition, the fourteen experts of the KNB from science and specialist authorities will serve as UBA's platform for scientific debate. The interdisciplinarity of the members of the ecologically focussed KNB reflects the status of the... read more

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