… refers to various types of waste with defined hazardous properties that are harmful for the environment and/or human health. Hazardous waste must be handled using special techniques and … are sometimes reffered to as “Sondermüll” (meaning ‘special waste’), a term for which no clear legal definition exists in German law. Hazardous waste …

… Series: The relevance of the War in Ukraine for transformation Weltkugelfahnen Source: ktsdesign Fotolia 440799 SubscriptionL … on 18.11.2025 Background The United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the urgently needed sustainability transformation face new challenges due to the … on greenhouse gas emissions. As one outcome, Russia announced a net-zero emissions target by 2060 at the COP26 summit. Due to the sanctions, previous ways of …

… Preventing corruption for a sustainability transformation Source: Umweltbundesamt Preventing corruption as precondition for a … Participants summarize their most important impressions from the workshop and call for cooperation in the prevention of corruption. last update on 18.11.2025 …

… International Soil Law and Governance Conference On Thurs., 20 Oct. 2022, the “Int. Soil Law and Governance Conference” was conducted fully online. Source: Oliver C. Ruppel last …

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… / Fotolia.com last update on 18.11.2025 In the context of the TES Academy transformation companionship process on “ Greenhouse gas-neutral administrations: … every inspirational session two keynote speakers shared their view on a joint topic and present their proposals and best practices. Questions, opinions and further … is an online portal that allows organisations to easily enter and track consumption data for resources such as electricity, gas, purchased materials, transport …

… – Ocean acidification due to CO₂ The North Sea Source: Manuela Krakau / UBA Oceans and seas absorb significant amounts of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere. … the development of marine organisms. Indirectly, humans will also be affected, for example through the effects on commercially important species in fisheries and aquaculture. last update …

… Developing a concept for a Polar Environmental Monitoring Program Pollutants enter the Antarctic and … policy. UBA has therefore launched an international research project to compile data from pollutant monitoring programs of selected Antarctic Treaty states. last … and data exchange and to provide environmental policy and chemicals management with effective and reliable data. The workshop report with the recommendations, summaries …

… has been increasingly discussed as a concept to solve the current waste problems for specific products. Thomas Lindhqvist first described it in 1990 as “an … impact of a product, by making the manufacturer of the product responsible for the entire life-cycle of the product and especially for the take-back, recycling, and final disposal”. Proponents of EPR …