Joint press release with the Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
40 years of innovative ideas to promote environmental protection
Federal Environment Ministry's Environmental Innovation Programme (UIP) marks its 40th anniversary
The Environmental Innovation Programme funds innovative industrial-scale pilot projects.
Source: Umweltinnovationsprogramm
Over the last 40 years the Environmental Innovation Programme has funded 733 pilot projects which have saved some 790 thousand tonnes of CO2. The Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) together with the German Environment Agency (UBA) and KfW, the promotional bank of Germany, provide funding for industrial-scale pilot projects. The projects show how innovative technologies can be implemented to help reduce and prevent harm to the environment. In so doing, they help to advance the state-of-the-art in Germany.