Umweltbundesamt
The European Commission’s draft delegated act to include fossil gas and nuclear power in the EU Taxonomy would prevent the Taxonomy from being an effective transparency tool for the financial markets, the German Environment Agency says. The draft labels as “sustainable” a large amount of GHG emissions from fossil gas, and nuclear power producing high-level nuclear waste. read more
Der Bericht wertet Befragungsdaten aus, die außerhalb von UBA / BMU bis in die 1970er Jahre zurück erhoben wurden und betrachtet die Entwicklungen und Veränderungen im Umweltbewusstsein. Die externen Quellen werden in Beziehung gesetzt zu den Daten der Umweltbewusstseinsstudien, die seit 1996 alle zwei Jahre im Auftrag von BMU und UBA erhoben werden. Zudem werden die jüngsten Entwicklungen (vo... read more
In the run-up to the Rio+20 summit, which takes place in June 2012, this study investigates the current system for financing international environmental governance (IEG). The current architecture for IEG finance consists of a growing number of bilateral and multilateral actors, funds and financial mechanisms which leads to incoherence, inefficiencies and extra burdens on recipient countries. T... read more
Die Energiewende induziert auch Veränderungen in der Abwasserwirtschaft. Im Forschungsvorhaben wurde untersucht, welche Klimaschutzpotenziale die Abwasserwirtschaft durch technische Erneuerung und innovative Technologien heben kann und wie sie sich sinnvoll in den Energiemarkt einbinden kann. Kläranlagen können sich perspektivisch in Richtung "regionaler Ressourcenzentralen" entwickeln, die üb... read more
In summer 2020, the European Commission launched the Renovation Wave Initiative as an important building block of the European Green Deal. The aim is to at least double the renovation rates of public and private buildings over the next ten years and to promote deeper renovations. Together with the decarbonization of heat supply, this should enable a significant reduction in direct greenhouse g... read more
Greenhouse gases, nitrogen emissions and other environmental pollution cause damage to human health and destroy ecosystems. They also lead to production losses, crop losses and damage to buildings and infrastructure. For many of these damages, there are established scientific methods to express them in monetary terms. read more
The UBA position paper assesses the usefullness of carbon capture and storage (CCS for short) as a climate protection instrument. It describes guidelines for sustainable use, as well as the necessary monitoring and risk prevention. The effects of CCS on human health and the environment are also considered. According to the paper, CCS cannot replace greenhouse gas reductions and... 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.
