… neglect their responsibility for promoting the sustainability transformation (in times of multiple crises)?” to aim at bringing such perspectives from the global … transition to renewable energy). Therefore, UBA launches an online discussion series to reflect on the implications of the current crises with international …

… ‘Bernd‘ low-pressure system was responsible for the high expenditures on working time. VE-I-5: Impacts on roads due to weather conditions and weather patterns … work is undertaken by private enterprises and therefore not reflected in the time series. Once the upgraded specification is established and applied by all Länder as …

… have been collated centrally for the past 25 years. Looking back at this period of time, it becomes evident that up to 2015, German insurance companies managed to make … significant trend in respect of the combined ratio. Looking at the time series for the claims ratio – which does not include the costs of administration and …

… convention is to reduce this to a maximum of 10 %. However, it may take a long time to reach this target. Large quantities of plastic waste still end up in the … the 2. OSPAR Regional Action Plan on Marine Litter adopted in 2022. It addresses a series of measures related to the relevant sea- and land-based sources and on …

… From the 1990s onwards, heat waves have occurred more frequently across all time series. The mean daily maximum of the heatwaves in 2022 amounted to 30.2 …

… and quality of life Source: Christiane Bunge / UBA It has been known for a long time that constant noise can lead to cardiovascular diseases. A new study done on … limit of 30 km/h as the standard in cities and improving protection against night-time noise. To achieve this would require the introduction of a wake-up criterion …

… is reserved as priority areas for species and biotope protection at the same time serving as a restricted area for the special protection of the landscape. In the time series concerned, these partial areas are included only once. Despite temporary …

… fire brigades. Consequently, those responsible for civic protection have emphasised time and again that without the willingness of members of the public to become … the THW, they play a much stronger role in characterising the progress of the time series. The declining trend up to the mid-2010s is due primarily to a negative …

… levels in Germany in 2014 were lower than in the previous year for the first time in three years, says a short-term forecast by the Federal Environment Agency … socially acceptable structural change now than to risk abrupt measures at a later time." Says UBA's President Maria Krautzberger: "The decline of greenhouse gas …

… ground-level air temperature was about 1.54 °C above the mean from pre-industrial times, according to WMO calculations. This made 2024 the warmest and hottest year … et al. 2021) . In addition to the HadCRUT5 data shown here, the WMO also uses time series from other institutes, namely ECMWF, Berkeley Earth, NASA, NOAA, and JMA. …

… so-called maars) are not available for sufficiently frequent observations and the time series are too short. However, for the Thuringian reservoirs, there are indications …