Umweltbundesamt
Emperor penguins breed solely on the landfast sea ice of the Antarctic. Due to climate change the sea ice undergoes major changes in some regions of Antarctica. To assess a possible endangerment of an emperor penguin colony in Atka Bay (East Antarctica) the changes of the local extent of sea ice have been analyzed in this study for the period of the last 15 years by help of satellite images. N... read more
Climate change will affect the frequency, intensity and regional occurrence of extreme weather events and lead to gradual climatic changes. Although climate change impacts appear locally at first, they spread beyond political borders due to the global physical and economic interconnectedness. Depending on a country’s extent of global interdependence and interaction with vulnerable countries, i... read more
Durch ihr breites Aufgabenspektrum besitzen Kommunen ein hohes Potenzial für ressourceneffizientes Handeln. Denn viele ressourcenrelevante Stoffströme sind eher regional organsiert und somit auf kommunaler Ebene verortbar. Das Projekt „RegioRess“ zeigt, dass obwohl Ressourceneffizienz aktuell in den meisten Kommunen noch kein prioritäres Themenfeld ist, kommunale Akteure bereits heute – vor al... read more
L’adoption d’un accord général et transfrontalier pour assurer la protection des Alpes avait été réclamée dès le début des années cinquante par la Commission Internationale pour la Protection des Alpes (CIPRA).Après les préparatifs nécessaires, la Convention alpine se concrétiseen 1989 à partir d’une conférence alpine internationale réunie à Berchtesgaden. En 1991, la « Convention pour la prot... read more
The Paris Agreement sets out the framework for global efforts to address climate change after 2020. Article 6 of the agreement provides for international cooperation through carbon markets to achieve targets jointly on a voluntary basis. The new context of the Paris Agreement - particularly the universal commitment to regularly make increasingly ambitious contributions towards the global effor... 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.
