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  • Article from 30.06.2025 | Last changed: 21.07.2025

    Stabilizing our Landscape Water Balance

    Poor harvests due to heat and drought

    Stabilizing our Landscape Water Balance Poor harvests due to heat and drought – just one of the … nature's resilience to extreme weather events. However, climate change, intensive land use, and significant alterations to natural river and floodplain ecosystems are …

  • Article from 25.03.2025 | Last changed: 25.03.2025

    Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC)

    Wind turbines and sheep on a pasture

    … in temperature to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. Specific demands for greenhouse gas reduction in the first GST include tripling renewable energy capacity globally by 2030, doubling the global average annual rate of energy efficiency improvements by 2030 and accelerating the phase-out of fossil fuels. … the Paris climate target of 1.5 degrees can be kept within reach would be largely used up by 2030. According to the UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2024 , the world is …

  • Article from 07.07.2020 | Last changed: 15.12.2025

    Large scale projects under the administrative agreement

    … petroleum hydrocarbons, BTEX, phenols, cyanide, and heavy metals – causes local soil contamination and large scale groundwater contamination in the … heavy metals, ammonium salts and nitrate. Further information is available from Landesamt für Umwelt des Landes Brandenburg. Oranienburg Location: This large scale …

  • Article from 19.02.2014 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Soil functions

    A mole on the surface.

    … of uncompromised soils. Around half of Germany’s surface area is used as farmland, i.e. for crop cultivation, direct consumption and animal fattening. German … and clay particles. Hence, soils with a high clay particle content filter far more efficiently than do sandy soils. Changes in soil chemistry can potentially mobilize … on local and global levels. Source: FG II 2.7 / Umweltbundesamt Soils cover natural resources The Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (Bundesanstalt …

  • Article from 15.04.2025 | Last changed: 25.04.2025

    The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement

    Lettering 1,5 degrees Celsius

    … the exact reference period for pre-industrial temperature data. However, the IPCC uses a baseline from 1850 to 1900, which is the earliest period with reliable, … sea level rise, the loss of large areas of ice, heat waves and the threat to island states are significant. Towards a global warming of 2°C and beyond, … are currently only available on a small scale. They are extremely expensive, resource-intensive and their potential impact on the environment is not (yet) …

  • Article from 14.01.2025 | Last changed: 14.01.2025

    Data & Models

    Neuglobsow air monitoring station

    … values for pH and nitrogen such as C/N ratio and nitrate concentration can be used in models that predict occurrence probabilities of plant species as a function … use of datafiles , 2)  the calibration , 3)  interpreting the results  and on 4)  using the vegetation model . The  MetHyd model  is a meteo-hydrological …

  • 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.

    … Funnelling Approach The CASRI Funneling Approach Source: @ CASRI The methodology used in CASRI to involve stakeholders in the various phases of the project has been … , which has already developed a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) for land use, land-use changes and soil management in a co-design process. Based on a …

  • Article from 19.03.2014 | Last changed: 15.12.2025

    Networks, joint regional-state-federal groups, associations

    … committee (ALA) The contaminated-sites standing committee (ALA) The ALA focuses on the technical underpinnings and implementation issues concerning … e.V. (ITVA) The engineering association for contaminated-site management and land recycling known as ITVA was founded in Berlin in 1990, as a politically and … Europe’s industrial sector to identify, assess and manage contaminated sites in an efficient, affordable, and sustainable fashion. International sphere International …

  • Article from 07.07.2020 | Last changed: 15.12.2025

    Research and funding

    … problem of contaminated sites are now largely within reach, the requisite financial resources are not always ready to hand. last update on 07.07.2020 Site-contamination … soil and groundwater remediation projects” RUBIN , the German acronym for “use of permeable cleaning walls for contaminated site remediation” REFINA , the German acronym for “land use reduction and sustainable land management” SAFIRA, the German acronym for …

  • Article from 10.08.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Large scale ecological projects

    Major projects

    … residual lakes in Lusatia are between 2 und 3,5 after raise of the groundwater caused by sulphide weathering. Source: Frauenstein Download image (1.11 MB) Special vessels are used for neutralization of opencut mining residual lakes Source: Frauenstein …

  • Article from 07.07.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Activities at the federal level

    … The agency decides which measures are to be undertaken and provides the budgetary resources for them. Pursuant to the Ressortvereinbarung agreement between the … und Grundwasserschutz at the Oberfinanzdirektion Niedersachsen acts as a clearing house for such projects, on behalf of employees from the following entities: …

  • Article from 04.07.2013 | Last changed: 15.12.2025

    Site remediation

    … carried out by the relevant authorities, often in conjunction with cadastral land surveys. In this process, information is compiled from sources such as … Such investigations centre around the manner in which the site in question was used (e.g. accidents or spills that occurred at the site), as well as assessments of … hydrological characteristics; contamination scope and type; relevance of natural resources that were used in particular ways), the BBodSchV law stipulates neither …