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  • Article from 30.09.2025 | Last changed: 01.10.2025

    Resources Commission at the UBA (currently inactive)

    Excavators at work in an open pit

    … field of action Source: bibi / Fotolia.com The Resource Commission supports the German Environment Agency (UBA) with proposals for the sustainable management of … Mission: The use of natural resources such as raw materials, water, land, environmental media, and biodiversity has been rising steadily for years and is …

  • 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 … ocean floor for mineral resources is expected to be high in the next few years. The German Ministry of Environment developed a sound protection concept for the North …

  • Article from 17.06.2025 | Last changed: 10.10.2025

    Switchgear

    Illustration of a typical gas-insulated switchgear

  • 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 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 / … It is only recently that air conditioning has become relatively common in German buildings. The high standard of living has ramped up expectations concerning …

  • Article from 21.08.2023 | Last changed: 10.10.2025

    Heat pumps

    Luft-Wasser-Wärmepumpe

    … If heat pumps are operated with halogen-free refrigerants, they are especially environmentally friendly because the global warming potentials of these refrigerants … from the emitted refrigerants. Blue Angel for heat pumps The Blue Angel , the German government's eco-label, has new award criteria for heat pumps since July …

  • Article from 27.06.2025 | Last changed: 10.10.2025

    German emissions of fluorinated greenhouse gases

    German emissions of fluorinated greenhouse gases As a signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Germany is required to elaborate annual emission inventories, including for … alternatives and F-gases with lower global warming potentials (GWP values). … German emissions of fluorinated greenhouse gases …

  • Article from 24.07.2019 | Last changed: 04.11.2021

    Safe management of drinking water supplies

    Scheme of the Water Safety Plan concept: What can go wrong in our water supply? What risks does this cause for our supply? How can we control them? How do we know that they are under control?

    … a manual for implementation of the WSP approach in small-scale water supplies in Germany. The manual complements the die DIN-EN 15975-2 with practical explanations, … testing the ‘end product’ drinking-water in accordance with the requirements of the German Drinking Water Ordinance (TrinkwV 2001), but rather includes parameters which … part of a WSP in order to confirm that the limit values and requirements of the German Drinking Water Ordinance, as well as water supply goals, are attained.  …