… Economy | Consumption Methodological Convention 3.0 for the Assessment of Environmental Costs - Cost Rates Version 02/2019 The … contains recommendations for methods to assess environmental costs (Part “Methods”) and provides new cost rates for emissions of greenhouse gases, air pollutants and … The cost rates can be used to assess the impacts of laws and public investments, and for the design of economic instruments. In the corporate sector, the cost rates …

… Water Ecological safeguards for deep seabed mining Interest in seabed mineral mining has renewed in recent years for various reasons and new offs-hore mining legislation is currently being developed for national and international waters. For this reason, agreement on the meaning of ‘effective protection of the marine environment from adverse effects arising from …

… Waste | Resources, Agriculture 5-point programme
for sustainable plant protection In recent decades, with EU and national subsidies for farming in Germany, the conventional cultivation of crops … insecticides, herbicides and fungicides, the general principle remains: No effects (i.e. plant protection) without side-effects (i.e. impacts on nature and the …

… Air Empirical Critical Loads of nitrogen for Europe This brochure summarizes the revised … assumed. The ecosystems studied have been visualized to make them easier to understand. Two maps show the distribution of natural and semi-natural ecosystems on the …

… Chemicals Further development of screening tests for the evaluation of potential PBT substances Assessing the persistency of chemicals in general involves a stepwise approach. This includes cost effective and easy to conduct screening tests, that may lead to a need for more complex, …

… Waste | Resources Roadmap for Healthy Buildings – 1st step: Harmonisation of Health Criteria for Construction Products Discussion Report A harmonised documentation of emission …

… Chemicals Integrative test strategy for the environmental assessment of nanomaterials Currently there are no testing and assessment strategies for environmental fate and effects taking the specific properties and behaviour of engineered nanomaterials …

… Economy | Consumption, Waste | Resources 9 principles for a circular economy Sustainable development is hardly imaginable … turning away from a predominantly linear economy requires many political, economic and social decisions. The German Environment Agency has now developed principles for …

… Climate | Energy How can the Global Stocktake be leveraged for enhanced climate action? Updated Second Edition The study analyses strategies and offers recommendations for leveraging the Global Stocktake’s (GST) outcomes for … strategies tailored to the different stages of the NDC policy process and diverse target audiences. Drawing on a wide range of examples, the paper advocates for a …

… Climate | Energy, Economy | Consumption, Health, Noise Annoyance and sleep disturbance due to noise from air-source heat pumps and air conditioners … results make it clear that these sounds are perceived as noise and should therefore urgently be the subject of further research. Download Series Texte | 152/2024 … 9.17 MB Print version not available Tags energy transition noise annoyance noise effect residential area … Annoyance and sleep disturbance due to noise from …

… Climate | Energy, Transport Software for a simplified estimation of CO₂ equivalents of individual flights In addition to CO 2 , aviation affects the climate through other emissions and atmospheric processes, such as the formation of ozone and contrail cirrus. These non-CO 2 effects account for about 2/3 of aviation's total climate impact but can vary widely …