Umweltbundesamt
“Public administrations must pioneer and be a role model in climate protection”, said Dirk Messner, President of the German Environment Agency (UBA) at an online meeting of the Network of Heads of European Environmental Administrations (EPA Network) on November 25th. He presented UBA’s guide on greenhouse gas neutral administrations, now also available in English. read more
The UBA study "Germany in 2050 – a greenhouse gas-neutral country" is now available in English. The study shows: It is technically feasible for Germany to become greenhouse gas neutral by 2050. read more
Greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced, and be reduced soon. This is the conclusion of the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was published on 13 April 2014. read more
Creating a climate-neutral society is not an abstract goal but rather a set of real ideas about how our daily lives might look and work in future. In some respects, our lives will change in fundamental ways, whereas in other areas we can carry on as we have been doing all along. The basic characteristics of this future everyday life can already be discerned.We can and ought to already adopt some o... 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.
