… Chemicals Intermediate uses of petroleum and coal substances - a regulatory issue? Environmental emission assessment of … bioaccumulation, and endocrine disruption. It investigates the potential for these constituents to transfer during intermediate use into the new substance or … are employed, including reactivity assessment, literature review, consultation data integration, supply chain interaction analysis, and upstream literature review …

… Emissions trading in pursuit of electricity decarbonisation - market structures and regulations matter Synthesis report This report assesses the role of emissions … and additional  policies. It provides a synthesis of five case studies in EU, California, South Korea, China and Mexico. The authors investigate four carbon price … reflection of marginal abatement cost, predictability, and environmental effectiveness) and three abatement channels (clean dispatch, low-carbon investment, …

… Soil | Land Environment and agriculture 2018 More than half of Germany’s surface (51.1 percent) is agricultural land: It is used as farmland, for the cultivation of permanent crops or as permanent grassland, especially for meadows and pastures. In recent years agricultural areas have declined. One …

… Chemicals Persistent degradation products of halogenated refrigerants and blowing agents in … substances which, despite their low global warming potential, are not unproblematic for the environment. The study examines quantities used and emissions today and in …

… Climate | Energy Background Paper: Key mitigation options to close the global 2030 ambition and action gap Staying within the limit of the Paris Agreement of 1.5 °C global … of mitigation options from recent literature and analyses the role of the G20 for their implementation. It provides the basis to identify key policy areas and …

… Chemicals Pharmaceuticals in the environment - avoidance, reduction and monitoring Residues of … Their traces are found in groundwater and in some cases in drinking water. A risk for the environment has already been identified for a few pharmaceutical active …

… | Consumption Contribution to the discussion on the evaluation of Carbon Capture and Utilisation Under Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) we summarise all relevant technologies for capturing, transport, and the subsequent utilisation of carbon. In the promising …

… Climate | Energy Information Paper on the analysis of the German Voluntary Offsetting market 2021 … 2017 to 2020. The analysis serves to create a basis for assessing the potential and thus for the development of incentive structures and framework conditions for …

… Chemicals Advancing REACH - REACH and substitution Enhancing substitution of substances of concern with less hazardous alternatives will remain a key challenge for chemicals management in the coming years and is a central aim of REACH. This …

… Climate | Energy Analysis of Risks and Opportunities of Linking Emissions Trading Systems Within the frame of this project, a structured system for evaluating the risks and opportunities of linking emissions trading schemes was … also includes an overview on economic models that can be used for analyzing linking effects. Another focus is the relevance of differences in the design of emission …

… Sustainability | Strategies | International matters Migration, environment and climate change: Responding via climate change adaptation … in diverse ways. The three reports in this series thus evaluate the evidence base for policymaking, and provide entry points for responses in the field of climate …

… | Resources, Sustainability | Strategies | International matters, Digitalisation Factsheet: Digitalisation and natural resources The ‘DigitalRessourcen’ research project analysed the resource intensity and greenhouse gas emissions of the digital transformation in Germany at both micro and macro level. The resource intensity of …