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Future Diesel

Exhaust gas legislation for passenger cars, light-duty commercial vehicles, and heavy duty vehicles

European legislation on exhaust emissions has made major progress with the adaption of limit value standards up to and including Euro 4 for passenger cars on light-duty commercial vehicles and Euro V for heavy-duty engines. Exhaust gas limit values need to be updated primarily for vehicle with diesel engines.read more

Chemicals

Proceedings - Expert Meeting on Critical

Limits for Heavy Metals and Methods for their Application

The UN/ ECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) has over the years substantially contributed to the development of international environmental law and has created the essential framework for controlling and reducing the damage to human health and the environment caused by transboundary air pollution. In the years from its entering into force (1983) until today problems of...read more

Climate | Energy, Air

German Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990 - 2001

National Inventory Report 2003

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCCC) was ratified by Germany in December 1983 and entered into force in March 1994. As a Party to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change, Germany is obliged to prepare, publish and regularly update national emission inventories of greenhouse gases.read more

Climate | Energy, Air

Harmonization of energy statistics used for CO2 inventories

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Germany has committed itself in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – as have other Member States of the European Union – to prepare inventories of its annual greenhouse gas emissions by source categories. The EU is itself a signatory to the Convention. In accordance with Council Decision 1999/296/EG on a mechanism for monitoring emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse...read more

Economy | Consumption

External Costs of Aviation

This report aims at quantifying, within ranges as small as possible, external costs from environmental impacts of aviation. Benefits of aviation are important too, but they are generally, in contrast to the negative impacts, well captured by the market.read more

Economy | Consumption

Financial Support to the Aviation Sector

While it is generally acknowledged that air transport causes environmental damages that are not included in its price - so-called external environmental costs - it is sometimes argued that air transport covers at least its infrastructure costs. This argument is important in the discussion on distortions of competition between transport modes. Besides, aviation enjoys taxation advantages  such as t...read more

Air

Entwicklung eines Modellsystems für das Zusammenspiel von Messung und Rechnung für die bundeseinheitliche Umsetzung der EU-Rahmenrichtlinie Luftqualität

Part: Data assimilation for the chemical transport model REM3/CALGRID based on Kalman Filtering

This report describes the implementation and the application of Kalman Filter rountines around the model REM3/CALGRID employed at the Free University of Berlin (FUB) in the framework of the FUB-project 'Entwicklung eines Modellsystems für das Zusammenspiel von Messung und Rechnung für die bundeseinheitliche Umsetzung der EU-Rahmenrichtlinie Luftqualität'. Results are presented for a number of simu...read more

Chemicals, Economy | Consumption, Air

Emission of Flame Retardants from Consumer Products and Building Materials

Since the interior atmosphere represents a major part of the built environment, determining emissions from those sources which influence indoor air quality is of great importance. Recently, interest has been focussed on flame retardants (FR) which have been increasingly used in consumer and building products in combination with a rapid increase in the use of plastics. The aim of the research proje...read more