Publications | Umweltbundesamt

Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

Annual Report 2005 - Federal Environmental Agency

Environmental policy encourages innovation and creates employment. The facts: environmental protection currently provides employment for some 1.5 million people in Germany, around 3.5 per cent of the workforce, and this is an upward trend. In 2003  Germany led the world in the export of goods and products for environmental protection, with sales worth 31 billion euros, accounting for an 18.8 per c...read more

Chemicals

Manual on methodologies and criteria for Modelling and Mapping Critical Loads & Levels and Air Pollution Effects, Risks and Trends

This Manual is the basic guideline for modelling and mapping critical levels and loads and their exceedances, and for dynamic modelling of acidification. It helps Parties to the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) to fulfil their obligations to use harmonized methods to derive data for effects and risk assessments. This happens in the framework of the International...read more

Air, Transport

Implementation of Agenda 21 in European Ports at the example of Lübeck-Travemünde

Final report

The aim of the research project is the examination of different possibilities to record and then work out suggestions for the reduction of emissions into the air, pollution of the environment by waste water, waste and oil as well as impairments caused by noise and vibrations from ships in the ports of Lübeck-Travemünde within the scope of the implementation of the Agenda 21 process. The Agenda 21...read more

Health, Water

Epidemiological Determination of Disease Risks from Bathing

Epidemiologische Erfassung des Erkrankungsrisikos beim Baden

Five epidemiological studies were performed following a randomised, controlled study design in order to evaluate the risk of contracting infectious diseases from bathing in fresh water. Study locations were situated in the north, east, southwest and southeast of Germany: four sites on lakes and one site on a river. All sites had complied with current EU regulations for at least the three previous...read more

Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

Environmental Liability in International Law

- Towards a Conherent Conception -

This book focuses on liability provisions adopted and applied by states in environmental treaties and protocols as well as the international jurisprudence and non-contractual law creation processes as the decision-making of the Iraq Claims Commission. The international practice is supplemented by the further development of liability instruments in national legislation in Germany and the United Sta...read more

Economy | Consumption, Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

State Promotion for Regional Products

A Legal Analysis

Having said all of this, state advertising for regional products is allowed by world trade law in a comparable extent as from the EC law. Merely in a three-way regard do the system of laws take different paths: First, the EC law offers a broader selection of justification possibilities than the world trade law system, so that the promotion of weekly- and farmers- markets or of trade fairs and exhi...read more

Economy | Consumption, Waste | Resources

Cost Analysis for a monitoring of NiCd-batteries in municipal solid waste

Development of a monitoring strategy and assessment of related costs

It was the aim of the study to assess the sampling volume and the costs that would be required to monitor NiCd-batteries in municipal solid waste. The following tasks have been carried out: 1. Identification of relevant waste streams, i.e. waste streams containing relevant amounts of NiCd batteries; 2. Selection of appropriate sampling strategies for the relevant waste streams; 3. Determination of...read more

Climate | Energy

Integration of Biodiversity Concerns in Climate Change Mitigation Activities

A Toolkit

The current toolkit is based on the results of the research & development project “Suitable Instruments for Integrating Biodiversity Considerations in Climate Change Mitigation Activities, Particularly in the Land Use and Energy Sector” (Choudhury et al. 2004). The following chapters define the objective and scope of the toolkit, explain the context and international politicaland legal framewo...read more