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  • Press release 43/2023 from 04.12.2023 | Last changed: 11.12.2023

    Current recycling review: Successes, failures and challenges

    Recycling trägt zur Ressourcenschonung bei

    … withdrawn in 2022 due to high energy prices. However, this does not release manufacturers from product responsibility and the dual systems from complying with the … They are therefore particularly problematic. Associated content Links UBA publishes fact sheets on Proposal of EU Packaging Regulation Questions and answers: Packaging and …

  • Press release 08/2025 from 26.02.2025 | Last changed: 25.04.2025

    Environmental statements on long-distance bus journeys: Federal Court confirms UBA's decision

    Das Bild zeigt einen fahrenden Reisebus.

    … that consumers can make their mobility decisions based on reliable information. The fact that the BGH fully upholds the decision of the lower court sends out a signal … product characteristics are particularly misleading. Such claims conceal the fact that, as a rule, only individual aspects of a product have an environmental …

  • KomPass: Area of action climate impact from 06.07.2022 | Last changed: 08.01.2026

    Climate Impacts: Field of Action Human Health

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    … UV irradiance summed up over the year are also increased. This combined with the fact that the population spends more time and longer outdoors at higher … UV irradiance summed up over the year are also increased. This combined with the fact that the population spends more time and longer outdoors at higher …

  • News from 24.01.2018 | Last changed: 25.01.2018

    Blue Angel: New requirements for mobile phones and textiles

    a woman shopping clothes with a smartphone, standing in front of a wardrobe

    … include details and additional requirements of the working conditions at the manufacturing site. Manufacturers may now apply for the ecolabel on their products. 24.01.2018 Blue Angel … representatives from research and science, environmental associations, NGOs and manufacturers. The new catalogue of criteria with which a device must comply to be …

  • Press release 06/2024 from 01.02.2024 | Last changed: 15.02.2024

    Climate benefit for electric cars confirmed

    Electric cars registered in 2020 are around 40 per cent more climate-friendly than cars with petrol engines.

    … benefits of their use. The disadvantages of electric cars are largely due to the fact that electricity is still generated from fossil fuels. In the course of the … a decrease in the pH value in soils and bodies of water and is responsible for the fact that nutrients and minerals that are important for plants (e.g. calcium, …

  • Press release 43/2019 from 18.11.2019 | Last changed: 27.11.2019

    Consumption of packaging in Germany increased further in 2017

    Metalldosen und Plastikabfall

    … is often difficult to sort and recycle due to the variety of materials used and the fact that packaging is seldom designed with its recyclability in mind. Packaging … in 2019. It lists all the businesses which place packaging on the market and are in fact meeting their financial product responsibility in the dual systems and thereby …

  • Press release 42/2018 from 07.12.2018 | Last changed: 11.12.2018

    Official travel by Federal Government and federal agencies is climate neutral

    business travellers in an airport

    … that the reduction credits meet high-standard quality criteria, the decisive factor being that the projects they support have high value-added for sustainable … greenhouse gas emissions. The CO2 emissions of air travel are multiplied by a factor of three to take account of the greater climate impact of aviation. "Green … on offsetting projects Detailed information on voluntary carbon offsetting Facts and figures on offsetting All press releases Tags emissions trading … The …