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Permitting research projects on marine geoengineering

Since July 2019, the German Environment Agency has been the competent authority for permitting and monitoring scientific projects involving intended substance discharges into the oceans and attributed to marine geoengineering. The legal basis is the German “Hohe-See-Einbringungsgesetz” (§ 8 para. 3 HSEG). read more

The Umweltbundesamt

For our environment

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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