As of today the website of the German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt) at the Federal Environment Agency has a new outfit- a modern look, easier to navigate, and more services. Site visitors can now already access their topic of choice from the homepage. Emissions traders gain access to relevant pages via their own special area. Quicklinks, tag clouds and info boxes can customise searches wi... read more
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Who’s looking through green-tinted glasses?
How can you direct people’s attention to an urgent environmental problem? Anyone with a creative answer to this can enter the Wir und die Zukunft: der grüne Blick environmental contest. Entries can include videos, photos or even poems. The work should focus attention on one of the urgent environmental problems of our time such as global warming, plastic waste in seas and oceans, or urban road ... read more
World Water Day: Water quality must improve!
A mere ten percent of Germany’s surface waters achieve “good ecological” status. On World Water Day UBA President Jochen Flasbarth said, “Many rivers, lakes and streams have become generally clean. Oxygen deficiency now occurs only rarely. However, there are still too many rivers and streams in Germany that have been narrowed and straightened. As a result, only a few bodies of water achieve p... read more
REACH and plastics recycling
The entry-into-force of the European Chemicals Regulation REACH has brought extensive obligations upon the private sector as concerns the production, import and processing of chemicals. Due to considerable uncertainty about the consequences of REACH on plastics recycling, several plastics industry associations and businesses, along with the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), have come to an agre... read more
