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  • Article from 08.12.2020 | Last changed: 11.12.2020

    Environmental Compliance Assurance

    A red barrel lies in a river and is examined by a person in a green protective suit.

    Environmental Compliance Assurance Monitoring of the environment is one of the important tasks of the environmental enforcement staff. Source: Microgen / Fotolia.com Environmental law is …

  • Article from 22.04.2020 | Last changed: 22.04.2020

    Chemicals

    … Chemicals The group of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons exceeds the values of the environmental quality standards for chemicals regulated in the German Ordinance on … charges, erosion or air. Exceedances of the environmental quality standard (EQS) indicate that chemicals are occurring in …

  • Article from 22.05.2019 | Last changed: 28.05.2019

    Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

    … Waters also regulates 14 of the POPs . The Ordinance on Surface Waters defines environmental quality standards (EQS) for the concentrations of suspended … which feed on fish or mussels. For the 2014-2016 period, there was compliance with environmental quality standards for the cyclodiene pesticides, endosulfan, …

  • Landing page from 03.12.2025

    Data on the environment

    Data on the environment Here in the section "Data on the environment" you will find current data, trends and assessments on the environmental situation in Germany. You get direct access to the data search, and …

  • Article from 30.09.2025 | Last changed: 01.10.2025

    Resources Commission at the UBA (currently inactive)

    Excavators at work in an open pit

    … Mission: The use of natural resources such as raw materials, water, land, environmental media, and biodiversity has been rising steadily for years and is … Resources Commission established Publications A resource-efficient Europe – A programme for climate, competitiveness and employment Low Resource lifestyles and …

  • Article from 29.02.2016 | Last changed: 29.02.2016

    Airguns - an underestimated disruptive factor

    Finnwal

    … enables a reliable estimation of signal stretching and can be adapted to other environmental conditions. It must be noted, however, that the knowledge about … effects Detrimental effects of underwater noise Dialogues on the waste prevention programme II Assessment of communication masking in Antarctic marine mammals by …

  • Article from 18.03.2014 | Last changed: 23.10.2020

    Erhard Collection: „Waste – A look back”

    a man in a street collecting waste

    … Source: Sammlung Erhard A selection of pictures from the Erhard Collection of the Environmental Library at the German Environment Agency in Dessau-Roßlau last update … German Environment Agency in 1974. The "Erhard Collection" thus became part of the Environmental Library. The collection is available to all interested parties. It … waste incineration … A selection of pictures from the Erhard Collection of the Environmental Library at the German Environment Agency in Dessau-Roßlau … In 1911 …

  • Article from 17.06.2025 | Last changed: 10.10.2025

    Switchgear

    Illustration of a typical gas-insulated switchgear

    … In future, recovery will therefore be of great importance not only from an environmental but also from an operator's point of view. Project on the recovery of … In future, recovery will therefore be of great importance not only from an environmental but also from an operator's point of view. Project on the recovery of …

  • Article from 11.07.2024 | Last changed: 11.07.2024

    Eco-friendly transport refrigeration

    … products of halogenated refrigerants and blowing agents in the environment: type, environmental concentrations, and fate with particular regard to new halogenated …

  • Article from 02.08.2024 | Last changed: 02.08.2024

    Climate friendly mobile air conditioning for buses

    a black and yellow bus of the BVG with inscription "CO2"

    … DUH Final Report (DBU Project, 2015, in German) Documents Mobile Air Conditioning: Environmentally Sound Alternatives (1.38 MB) Tags bus CO2 air conditioner F-gases …

  • Article from 26.03.2019 | Last changed: 19.02.2020

    Building air conditioning

    A lot of room air conditioners hangig on the face of a building

    … Building air conditioning Room air conditioners contain environmentally harmful HFCs and use a lot of electricity. Source: kanvag / … the figure for non-residential buildings is 25 percent (Riviere et al. 2008). Environmental pollution Apart from their carbon emissions, air conditioners, which …