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Das Forschungsprojekt untersucht das Ernährungssystem Deutschlands aus transformationswissenschaftlicher Perspektive, insbesondere auf seine Eigenschaften, seine Dynamiken und seine ökologischen Unzulänglichkeiten. Eine Transformation des Ernährungssystems ist dringend geboten, da es viele der zentralen Nachhaltigkeitsziele, insbesondere in den Bereichen Umwelt-, Tier- und Gesundheitsschutz we... read more

Die Managementregeln der Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie der Bundesregierung sind als zentraler Bestandteil der nationalen Nachhaltigkeitsarchitektur konzipiert. Seit ihrer Verabschiedung im Jahr 2002 wurden sie nur geringfügig angepasst. Gleichzeitig bestehen erhebliche Überarbeitungsbedarfe, um die Regeln wirksamer und attraktiver zu machen. Trotz Anwendung in der Gesetzesfolgenabschätzung spielen ... read more

Since 2016, there are new legal requirements for the assessment for nutrients and substances of the waters in Germany. New assessment procedures for hydromorphology were developed. These assessment instruments are described in the brochure "Waters in Germany: Status and Assessment". The results of the assessment clarify the still open problems in water protection. The long time series of data ... read more

In 2021 UBA commissioned workshops to discuss how research outputs on climate resilient infrastructure systems could be more consistently transferred into practice of infrastructure operation. This paper presents barriers for successful transfer and provides recommendations to overcome them. The target audiences for these recommendations are funding bodies, policy makers, and standardization b... read more

In the future, more and more people will probably no longer work in the office at the company's location or public institution, but from home, on business trips or in co-working spaces. What will the mobile working world look like in the future? What will happen to traditional office spaces? How will private spaces change? Where will people settle in the future? Which consumer products and ser... read more

The Global Stocktake (GST) under the Paris Agreement periodically assesses the collective progress towards achieving the long-term goals of the Agreement. A project commissioned by the German Environment Agency accompanied all phases of the first GST with analysis focused on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and examined the GST’s implications for climate action. Analyses of transformative m... read more

Under the Paris Agreement (PA), Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change agreed to limit global warming to "well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels" and to make efforts to "limit the temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels". Achieving these temperature objectives depends imperatively on sufficient national climate action in the mid-term. This study commissioned... read more