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  • Press release 26/2019 from 15.08.2019 | Last changed: 01.11.2019

    Plenty of sun and wind sets electricity records in Germany

    Photovoltaikanlage auf dem Dach des Umweltbundesamtes in Dessau-Roßlau

    … (+ 12 billion kWh). These figures are from the Working Group on Renewable Energy-Statistics (AGEE-Stat) and confirm the continued rising trend of previous years. … transport remained stable. Further information: Working Group on Renewable Energy Statistics (AGEE-Stat) The Working Group on Renewable Energy Statistics (AGEE-Stat), …

  • DzU article from 03.09.2025 | Last changed: 03.09.2025

    Indicator: Organic farming

    A graph shows the increase of the share of organic farming areas in total utilised agricultural area based on data of the German Federal Statistical Office and the BMLEH. It also shows the 30 percent target of the Federal Government.

    … Source: Federal Ministry of Agriculture / Food and Regional Identity and Federal Statistical Office Figure as PDF (178 kB) Figure as Excel with data (44.05 kB) … organically farmed area. The area shares of organically managed land based on BMLEH statistics shows a slight increase to 11.5 % for 2024. From 2026 onwards, only data …

  • DzU article from 06.10.2025 | Last changed: 19.11.2025

    Indicator: Amount of waste – municipal waste

    A graph shows the amount of municipal waste from 2010 to 2023. During this period the amount decreased from 49.2 million tonnes to 48.9 million tonnes.

    … – municipal waste Waste generation in municipal waste category Source: Federal Statistical Office of Germany Figure as PDF (35.26 kB) Figure with data (36.27 kB) … Report - Waste Balance Sheet ( Federal Statistical Office 2025 ). The waste statistics are based on a number of different surveys, which are combined into the …

  • DzU article from 08.10.2025 | Last changed: 08.10.2025

    Indicator: Recycling municipal waste

    A graph shows the proportions of processed and recycled municipal waste in the total quantity of municipal waste from 2002 to 2023. During this period the proportion of recycled municipal waste rose from 56.1 to 67.2 percent.

    … and recycled municipal waste in the total amount of municipal waste Source: Federal Statistical Office of Germany Figure as PDF (39.20 kB) Figure with data (38.80 kB) … Report - Waste Balance Sheet ( Federal Statistical Office 2025 ). The waste statistics are based on a number of different surveys, which are combined into the …

  • DzU article from 29.07.2025 | Last changed: 30.07.2025

    Indicator: Taxes related to the environment

    A graph shows the development of environmental taxes for the year 1995 (39.9 billion euros), the year 2000, and the period 2005 to 2023 (69.5 billion euros, preliminary data) as well as their share of total tax revenues in the public budgets.

    … related to the environment Revenue from taxes to the environment Source: Federal Statistical Office of Germany Figure as PDF (41.78 kB) Figure with data (60.84 kB) … taxes (e.g. 2 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity). Methodology The concept of statistics on environmental taxes was developed at an international level by the …

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    All environmental crimes: convicted persons by the type of sanction (2016)

    The pie chart shows that of those convicted for environmental crimes in 2016, 78 received prison sentences and 1,813 fines. Of the fines, 60% were between 31 and 90 daily rates; 32% were between 16 and 30 daily rates.

    … chart you can find in the publication: "Environmental offences in Germany 2016: a statistical analysis" (UBA-Texte 14/2020) Source: Statistics on Criminal Prosecution 2016 Download image (167.03 kB) … The pie chart … chart you can find in the publication: "Environmental offences in Germany 2016: a statistical analysis" (UBA-Texte 14/2020) … All environmental crimes: convicted …

  • Cover from 27.03.2019

    Conference Measuring Sustainability in Tourism: Agenda

    … FROM DATA COLLECTION TO DATA USAGE – International Examples National Accounting Statistics versus Indicators. Two Sides of the Same Coin? Dr. Anselm Mattes / … FROM DATA COLLECTION TO DATA USAGE – International Examples National Accounting Statistics versus Indicators. Two Sides of the Same Coin? Dr. Anselm Mattes / …

  • DzU article from 18.12.2025 | Last changed: 19.12.2025

    Indicator: Combined heat and power (CHP)

    A graph shows the development of CHP net power generation from 2003 (78 terawatt hours) to 2024 (103 terawatt hours) and the target for 2025 according to the CHP Act.

    … in CHP electricity generation between 2017 and 2018 is due to a change in energy statistics: Since 2018, CHP plants have been recorded more accurately. The CHP Act … natural-gas CHP. The decrease from 2017 to 2018 is mainly due to an improved energy-statistical accounting of CHP plants from 2018 onwards (for further information see …

  • Press release 54/10 from 17.11.2010 | Last changed: 05.07.2013

    Everyone - environment, economy, and consumers - stands to gain from conserving resources

    … economy, and consumers - stands to gain from conserving resources Federal Statistical Office and Federal Environment Agency publish new data and research … to the latest results of the Environmental-Economic Accounting of the Federal Statistical Office and the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), Germany is making … a global problem. The results of the joint Federal Environment Agency and Federal Statistical Office research project show that some of the efficiency gains made in …

  • DzU article from 10.05.2024 | Last changed: 14.05.2024

    Indicator: Environmental protection goods

    A graph shows the value of environmental protection goods produced between 2009 and 2021 as well as the share of these goods in the overall industrial production.

    … drawn up by various research institutions in cooperation with Germany’s Federal Statistical Office. The concept is based on a list of goods that (can) help to … update of the approach became necessary due to the new version of the production statistics of the Federal Statistical Office of Germany in 2019. For further …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.03.2022 | Last changed: 28.03.2022

    Climate models and scenarios

    A bridge over a dry river

    … different methods for this regionalisation of global climate models: dynamic and statistical methods – these also include so-called downscaling approaches, which can be used, for example, to further downscale the results of statistical models. An example of dynamic models is REMO and for statistical models …

  • DzU article from 25.06.2025 | Last changed: 16.09.2025

    Indicator: Employment in the renewable energy sector

    Graph: After a strong increase since 2000, employment has been declining since 2012 due to the sharp job losses in solar energy. There was a slight increase from 2015 to 2016. Most jobs were created in the wind energy and biomass sectors. Between 2016 and 2019, there were sharp declines. By 2023, there were significant increases again, especially in solar energy and heat pumps.

    … as part of the 2025 GreenTech Atlas and is based on data provided by the Federal Statistical Office. The activities relevant to its calculation were identified using … Activities (Federal Statistical Office) and further analysed within the employment statistics provided by the Federal Employment Agency. Only directly employed persons …