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  • Article from 25.07.2025 | Last changed: 22.08.2025

    CASRI’s Co-design Methodology: The Funnelling Approach

    The image shows a flowchart representing a structured process for implementing research and innovation collaborations and funding actions.

    … of a strategic research and innovation agenda by national key stakeholders, environmental protection agencies and research funders in 14 project countries. last … further developed by Katja Firus from T6 Ecosystems and Stephan Bartke from the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) with contributions of project partners Sara …

  • Article from 07.07.2020 | Last changed: 15.12.2025

    Research and funding

    … improved the scientific and technical basis for contaminated-site remediation in Germany. And while technical solutions to the problem of contaminated sites are now … 1991 and 2008. Aside from the Ministry for the Environment’s Umweltforschungsplan (Environmental research program), the federal government currently lacks a general …

  • Article from 04.07.2013 | Last changed: 15.12.2025

    Site remediation

    … there is good reason to believe that the site in question is contaminated. In Germany, a formal initial assessment following the historical investigation phase … waste sites The graph shows the first steps of working with contaminated sites in Germany - capturing and historical exploration of suspected hazardous waste sites … analysis technologies and software-support. Source: Frauenstein Next Previous Links German Federal Soil Protection Act Federal Soil Protection and Contaminated Sites …

  • Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    Effects chain – Example from the ‘human health’ action field

    … chain – Example from the ‘human health’ action field 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change last update on 28.11.2023 Climate … of hot days with a maximum temperature of at least 30 °C has increased throughout Germany. Moreover, extraordinary heatwaves have occurred more frequently since the … a mean daily maximum air temperature of at least 30.0 °C. The examination of eight German cities revealed that 24 % of the heatwaves identified occurred in the period …

  • Article from 11.08.2022 | Last changed: 13.10.2025

    Fachbibliothek Umwelt (Environmental Library)

    View into the environmental library in Dessau

    Fachbibliothek Umwelt (Environmental Library) The Fachbibliothek Umwelt is the largest environmental library in the German-speaking world. Source: Umweltbundesamt The Environmental Library is a …

  • Article from 10.12.2025 | Last changed: 10.12.2025

    Sustainable resource use in the leisure sector

    Top view of a soccer field

    … These are not available in unlimited quantities and their use can have negative environmental consequences . Some products and services in the leisure sector … equipment and guitars need to be manufactured. Based on preliminary figures, the German Environment Agency has estimated that private households in Germany could …

  • Article from 22.05.2020 | Last changed: 25.06.2024

    Biodiversity as insurance: aligning economic stimulus packages

    … insects on land have declined by 24% over the last 30 years ( van Klink 2020 ). In Germany, once widespread bird species of the agricultural landscape, such as the … exclusively for public (ecosystem) services. ________ Author: Dr. Jasper Meya is environmental economist and works as senior researcher at the Biodiversity Economics …

  • Article from 29.07.2025 | Last changed: 29.07.2025

    Geoengineering

    … of the stratosphere and damage the ozone layer (see study " Geo-Engineering ", german). This is particularly the case with sulphate aerosols. For this reason, the … being discussed. As specific as the ideas are, the level of development and the environmental risks are just as varied. Illustration 1 - Space based installations A … Dumping of harvest waste and algae farms See UBA topic - Marine Geoengineering (German) Terrestrial CDR methods Afforestation/reforestation Improved CO 2 …

  • Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    BO-I-4: Temperature in the topsoil

    The picture shows a seedling emerging from moist, dark soil.

    … and grow. Source: sandra zuerlein / stock.adobe.com 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change last update on 28.11.2023 BO-I-4: … threshold is undercut, the development process will come to a standstill. In Germany’s lowlands, soil temperatures of more than 5 °C prevail roughly between the … In the course of a year, values of 5 °C are typically first exceeded in southwest Germany. Subsequently, values of 5 °C and more in the soil gradually begin to be …

  • Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    BO-I-3: Rainfall erosivity

    The legend comprises six categories for the rainfall erosivity (unit: kilojoules per square metre multiplied by millimetres per hour) as a district average for the years 2017 to 2021.

    … data: DWD (RADKLIM); Geodata: Geobasis-DE/BKG 2021 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change last update on 28.11.2023 BO-I-3: Rainfall erosivity In Germany, rainfall erosivity doubled over the past 50 years. High levels of rainfall … Water Framework Directive (WWRL). Erosion monitoring that would cover the whole of Germany contiguously is not yet available. So far, soil erosion monitoring conducted …

  • Article from 20.04.2015 | Last changed: 28.04.2023

    The CORINE Land Cover (CLC) program

    CORINE Land Cover 2006

    … Cover 2006 Source: Umweltbundesamt Land cover is a key indicator of anthropogenic environmental pollution. The EU’s CORINE Land Cover (CLC, Coordination of … for all EU member states. last update on 20.04.2015 Harmonized land cover data for Germany, via the CLC program CLC provides a trans-national concept and system for …

  • Article from 20.05.2022 | Last changed: 18.07.2022

    Good to know about nanomaterials

    Nano structures

    … to ensure the safety of nanomaterials Under the general coordination of the German Federal Environment Ministry, the Federal Environment Agency … contribution to the test guideline development in the field of ecotoxicology, environmental fate and physical-chemical characterization. Nanomaterials and the …