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  • Article from 22.12.2020 | Last changed: 20.06.2024

    What is the One Health approach, and how to implement it?

    … gets spatially and mechanistically possible and can be spread easily across a wide area. The ever-closer proximity between people and wild animals caused by habitat … gets spatially and mechanistically possible and can be spread easily across a wide area. The ever-closer proximity between people and wild animals caused by habitat …

  • Article from 14.12.2015 | Last changed: 20.12.2015

    Season's Greetings from the German Environment Agency

    … baking: Pre-heating the oven is not necessary Use the convection setting to bake your biscuits: several baking sheets can be done in one go Make use of residual heat … baking: Pre-heating the oven is not necessary Use the convection setting to bake your biscuits: several baking sheets can be done in one go Make use of residual heat …

  • Article from 19.07.2024 | Last changed: 02.08.2024

    The Oder River under stress

    Photo from the river Oder

    … prepared to take immediate action in emergencies, such as significantly increased pollutant concentrations with severe ecological consequences. It also helps to know … in 2024. The UBA's wide range of topics, including water assessment, monitoring, pollutants from industry and municipalities, mining, algae, and their toxins, and …

  • Article from 03.06.2020 | Last changed: 04.06.2020

    Federal Environment Ministry's Advisory Assistance Programme

    Map of EECCA and Central/Eastern European states

    … Programme focus on the establishment of expertise, on sewage treatment, on water pollution control, on recycling management, on air pollution or on nature … Considerable significance is also attached to measures which relate to the thematic area of “climate protection and climate change mitigation” or which enable …

  • Article from 19.03.2020 | Last changed: 23.03.2020

    Lawful Rights of Participation

    colorful symbolised People under the magnifying glass

    … The requirements of public participation have been greatly expanded in the area of environment. Several international agreements and European directives have … (EIA) Directive 2011/92/EU , SEA Directive 2001/42/EC ) and the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive (IPPC Directive 2008/1/EC , now: … association may also exercise its right to participation when a project affects the areas of responsibility governed in its statutes. Environmental protection or nature …

  • Article from 17.12.2012 | Last changed: 01.09.2013

    Integrated coastal zone management in Germany

    … ICZM seeks to balance the various economic and social claims to the use of coastal areas (fishing, shipping, port operation, industry and commerce, land-based … tourism, etc.) with the objectives of coastal zone protection (avoiding pollution, efficient use of the resource land, nature conservation, flood protection …

  • Article from 10.12.2025 | Last changed: 10.12.2025

    Resource use in Germany

    Opencast mining with large machines

    … capita. The consumption of raw materials by private households was largest in the areas of food, housing and mobility. Source: UBA Resources Report 2022 Download …

  • Article from 12.12.2025 | Last changed: 12.12.2025

    FAQ

    … mixing up to the height h, the mean concentration over this cylinder with the area A = 2*pi*r*h is constant. It results from A*c*u = Q to c = Q/(2*pi*r*h*u). In … Wet deposition is quantified by the parameter washout rate. The rate depends on the pollutant properties and the rate of precipitation. It is often determined … The regulation TA Luft states how the public is to be protected from hazardous air pollution in the context of plant licensing according to the Federal Immission …

  • Article from 22.06.2023 | Last changed: 22.06.2023

    Laws of environmental liability, harm and criminal actions

    dead bird in the water

    … incentives to prevent the occurrence of harm, paving the way for the payment by the polluter of compensation for any harm that occurs. The legislature can create … national liability regimes in the event of environmental harm in extraterritorial areas. In the first part it elaborates on the existing liability regulations for …

  • Article from 21.11.2024 | Last changed: 21.11.2024

    Access to environmental information

    Blick auf Bürgerinformation und Bibliothek im UBA-Gebäude Dessau-Roßlau

    … Developments of Antarctic Tourism Environmental Liability in International Law The Polluter Pays Principle under WTO Law: The Case of National Energy Policy …

  • Article from 03.12.2020 | Last changed: 07.12.2020

    Immission control law

    Two chimneys blow out white smoke

    … nature. Source: Christian Noval / Fotolia.com Immission control is one of the key areas of environmental protection law. Its aim is to reduce potentially harmful … last update on 03.12.2020 The main purpose of immission control law is air pollution control and noise abatement, but it also protects all other environmental …

  • Article from 22.01.2021 | Last changed: 22.01.2021

    Environmental Code

    The Environmental Code in the grass

    … which contained overarching principles, rules and procedures for the different areas of environmental regulation. This was followed by a draft proposal on the … which contained overarching principles, rules and procedures for the different areas of environmental regulation. This was followed by a draft proposal on the …