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  • Press release 20/2021 from 05.05.2021 | Last changed: 10.06.2021

    Fluorinated refrigerants in the EU: additional CO₂ savings potential of 100 million tonnes

    Old refrigerators at a recycling facility

    … F-gases are regulated already today by the F-gas Regulation (Regulation (EU) No 517/2014). It bans certain F-gas applications and envisages a pathway to phase down … Therefore, the EU had established an ambitious phase-down schedule already back in 2014 and pioneered global measures in this sector. Regarding the growing urgeny for …

  • Press release 17/2017 from 26.04.2017 | Last changed: 12.06.2017

    One in five Germans suffers from railway noise – unnecessarily

    long train

    … beyond 2020 must be guaranteed to secure noise abatement beyond that date.  The UBA 2014 representative environmental awareness survey [Umweltbewusstsein in Deutschland 2014] revealed that 54% of Germans feel burdened by road traffic in their …

  • Press release 36/2014 from 26.08.2014 | Last changed: 23.01.2017

    E-cycles – a (small) mobility revolution

    E-cycles on a field path

    … has compiled all the essential information about e-cycles. Press release No. 36/2014 | 26.08.2014 The advantages of e-cycles, which include pedelecs and e-bikes, are obvious: …

  • Press release 22/2017 from 02.06.2017 | Last changed: 07.08.2017

    Data on the Environment 2017: More climate protection action required

     Polar bear on ice floe

    … levels of nitrogen oxides in urban areas continue to be a problem. The 2016 limit value for mean annual NO 2 concentration was exceeded at 57 percent of the measuring … along the North and Baltic Seas achieved good or high ecological status. The limit value for nitrate was exceeded at 18 percent of the groundwater measuring points. …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 11.12.2024

    WW-I-1: Terrestrially stored water

    The picture shows a section of a satellite photograph of the Earth. In the upper margin of the photograph is a radiant sun. On the Earth, clouds and a deep-blue ocean are visible.

    … 20-year time series of 2002–2021 were determined on the basis of the absolute values obtained monthly. Months in which the precipitation exceeds the water loss … 20-year time series of 2002–2021 were determined on the basis of the absolute values obtained monthly. Months in which the precipitation exceeds the water loss …

  • Press release 44/2023 from 04.12.2023 | Last changed: 11.12.2023

    The German Ecodesign Award 2023 goes to twelve pioneering projects

    The jury posing in front of a building

    … Ecodesign Award went to the following projects: Young talent category Layers of Value | Virginia Reil (Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, Sachsen-Anhalt) “Layers of Value” is a new method of using industrial textile waste. Fabric remnants are … Jan Sagasser (Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Design, Baden-Württemberg) The design guidelines for the production of consumer electronics take user behaviour into …

  • Newsletter from 26.07.2024 | Last changed: 26.07.2024

    EU News – New UBA Publications, Statements and Events - No.: 2/2024

    … With a new Scientific Opinion Paper, we would like to offer recommendations to guide EU climate and environmental policies in the second half of the EU's 8th … of the organic farming and food industry and the strengthening of regional value chains. Measures to implement these strategies are bundled into three …

  • KomPass: Area of action adaptation from 06.01.2023 | Last changed: 07.01.2026

    Adaptation: Field of Action Biological Diversity

    colourful flowering summer meadow

    … breeding, transporting, marketing and releasing under Regulation (EU) No 1143/2014 for species of the Union List and a ban on possession and marketing under the … breeding, transporting, marketing and releasing under Regulation (EU) No 1143/2014 for species of the Union List and a ban on possession and marketing under the …