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Based on the 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) submitted in 2007 concerning the causes and impacts of global warming as well as options for mitigation, the scientific findings are unambiguous. In all likelihood, i.e.

The Federal Government was early in developing a comprehensive climate-protection strategy. By resolution of 13 June 1990, the "CO2-Reduction" Interministerial Working Group (IWG) was established, under the direction of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU).

The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) is a research project aiming at establishing an international composite environment index. It is jointly implemented by two US-Universities (Yale/New Haven and Columbia/New York) and has been commissioned by the World Economic Forum/Davos.

On the national German and European Union level, the topic resource use is of central importance in the context of sustainable development. The „sixth environmental action programme“ accepted in 2002 points out the priorities of the European Union environmental policy for a period of ten years (2002-2012).

The project CAPACITY BUILDING ON EUROPEAN UNION ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AT LATVIAN REGIONAL AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES (further: CAP2) is implemented at the Baltic Environmental Forum (BEF) to continue the bilateral cooperation between Latvia and Germany.

The brochure presents important and topical facts from the Federal Environment Agency’s core environmental indicator system. 44 environmental indicators – theme-based “signposts in the jungle” of environmental data – provide information about the state of the environment in Germany.

The German Environmental Survey (GerES) is a representative population study carried out in order to determine the exposure to pollutants of the general population in Germany. The study has been conducted by the Federal Environment Agency since the mid-1980s.

Aufbau von Umweltbehörden und Umsetzung von EU-Recht

The Ecological Footprint has proven one of the most successful indicators for communicating the concept of environmental sustainability and the physical limits of our planet.

After the administration of veterinary medicinal products (VMP) in livestock husbandry, parent compounds and metabolites are excreted by production animals via urine and feces. In loose housing stables with slatted floors, the excrements are transferred to the manure aboveground silos or underground pits.

Capacity building on EU environmental legislation for local and regional selfgovernment in Croatia and Macedonia -- Final Report 2009

In 1997, at the United Nations conference on climate change hosted in Kyoto, Japan, the European Union committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 8 per cent in the period from 2008 to 2012, with 1990 as baseline. The EU members agreed to reduce their emissions jointly under consideration of their different national circumstances in a burden sharing agreement.