Publications | Umweltbundesamt

Climate | Energy, Chemicals, Air

Emissions and Emission Projections of HFC, PFC and SF6 in Germany - Present State and Development of a Monitoring System

Emissions 1990, 1999-2003 and Emission Forecasts for 2010 and 2020

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its follow-up regulations include special commitments on transmission of emission data as well as the data basis (activity data) and applied methodologies. In connection with the international agreements on climate protection, information on emissions have also to be reported to the European Commission. National emissions reporting on t...read more

Waste | Resources, Soil | Land

CORINE Land Cover 2000 - Germany

Final Report

This report summarizes the results of the project ‘CORINE Land Cover 2000 – Germany’, which was performed within the framework of the European-wide project CLC2000 and which generated up-to-date maps of land use and land cover and their changes within the last 10 years for Germany. It describes the project structure and organization, the underlying methodology and nomenclature, the processing step...read more

Chemicals, Health, Water

Current approaches to cyanotoxin risk assessment, risk management and regulations in different countries (2005)

At the VIth Internatitonal Conference on Toxic Cyanobacteria, held from 21 – 27th of June 2004 in Bergen, Norway, 190 participants from 36 countries presented results covering a wide range of aspects of research on toxic cyanobacteria. The conference included a special session in which scientists and regulators reported on the current status of awareness of the toxic cyanobacterial hazards in thei...read more

Climate | Energy, Air

Emissions, Activity Data and Emissions Factors of Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases (F- Gases) in Germany 1995-2002

Before the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on Climate Protection, the fluorinated greenhouse gases HFCs, PFCs, and SF6 (F-gases) aroused little public attention. Since then, the standards on surveying and reporting on national emissions have been rising constantly. Amongst others, the annual reporting to the UNFCCC secretariat makes detailed declarations on use and emissions of F-gases necessary, which have t...read more

Chemicals, Health

Residues of flame retardants in breast milk from Germany with specific regard to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs)

Final Report

It had been the aim of the present study to characterize, on the one hand, the PBDE background exposure in Germany and to assess whether any health risks could be involved in PBDE intake by the infant through breastfeeding. On the other hand, it had also been intended to test the influence of the mother’s diet and of breastfeeding in the context of 2 study hypotheses since no unambiguous evidenve...read more

Climate | Energy, Air

German Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990 - 2003

National Inventory Report 2005

As a Party to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change, since 1994 Germany has been obliged to prepare, publish and regularly update national emission inventories of greenhouse gases. In February 2005, the Kyoto Protocol entered into force. As a result, for the first time ever the international community of nations is required to implement binding action targets and instruments for global cl...read more