Umweltbundesamt
The Global Stocktake assesses the collective progress towards the goals of the Paris Agreement every five years. The first Global Stocktake concluded in 2023 with a decision at COP28 on the way forward to increase action and support to effectively address climate change. read more
Die Entwicklungen der Infrastrukturen sowie aktuelle Diskurse wurden auf tragende Leitbilder hin untersucht. Darauf aufbauend wird ein Leitbild zukunftsfähiger und klimaresiliente Infrastrukturen vorgeschlagen. Es betont die gesellschaftliche Funktion von infrastrukturbezogenen Grunddienstleistungen und weist darauf hin, dass der Bau und Betrieb von Infrastrukturen klimaneutral und ressourcens... read more
This executive summary presents shortly the contents of the six sub-reports of the "Climate Impact and Risk Analysis 2021 for Germany", for which 102 climate impacts and 13 fields of action were investigated and assessed. The methodology and the basics of the projections as well as the generic adaptation capacity are addressed. The most important results for all 13 fields of action are present... read more
Die Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung (KWK) leistet durch effiziente Strom- und Wärmeerzeugung einen Beitrag zur deutschen Energiewende. Die Novellierung des KWKG und die andauernde Diskussion zur Frage nach der Zukunft der (fossilen) KWK in einem zunehmend erneuerbaren Energiesystem sind Anlass für das Umweltbundesamt mit einem kompakten Sachstandspapier über den Status quo der KWK zu dieser Diskussion be... read more
The following text elaborates on the necessities of a future sustainability and climate protection policy which goes beyond solution-finding due to the current crisis in Ukraine. In a first step, the interrelationships of the Ukraine crisis and global and national sustainability policies are analysed. Policy recommendations are developed on basis of the analysis in a second step. These recomme... read more
A broad consensus exists that carbon pricing is key for cost-effective emission reductions and that it must play a major role in driving the transition to a climate-neutral economy. However, despite significant progress in wider climate policy uptake in recent years, the vast majority of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions remain unpriced. Making a success of carbon pricing in individual jurisdicti... 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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