Umweltbundesamt
UBA's biannual "What Matters" magazine covers current topics in environmental protection. The first edition of 2019 “Healthy Air” takes an in-depth look at how clean the air surroundig us actually is, which pollutants can be found and how we measure them. We also look at health aspects and how public health helps policy makers by calculating and comparing relevant risk factors. read more
Worldwide, about half a million sites of companies and other organisations have an environmental management system according to ISO 14001. Against this background, it was examined how in future a systematic management of climate-related risks can be promoted or even ensured with standards for environmental management systems. To this end, several options were examined, such as an adaptation of... 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
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
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
The generation of electricity and heat is the largest single activity covered by the EU Emissions Trad-ing System (EU ETS). This report provides an in-depth analysis of the electricity sector since the EU ETS was introduced in 2005. It allows key drivers behind the development in capacities, generation levels and emissions to be identified. It thereby provides key information from past develop... read more
The European Energy Exchange AG (EEX) in Leipzig has won the contract to act as auction platform for emissions trading in Germany. This temporary platform will act as forum for the auction of German emissions allowances (EUA) in the third trading period (2013-2020) through March 2013 or longer. In addition to so-called ‘early auctions’ for the third trading period, the platform will also auctio... read more
The UBA’s motto, For our environment (“Für Mensch und Umwelt”), sums up our mission pretty well, we feel. In this video we give an insight into our work.
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