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  • Press release 28/2022 from 09.06.2022 | Last changed: 15.06.2022

    Giving value added tax an ecological and social dimension

    Ein Marktstand mit Gemüse

    … immediate relief for household budgets and protects the environment at the same time." Press release No. 28/2022 | 09.06.2022 The VAT in Germany is regulated by a … immediate relief for household budgets and protects the environment at the same time." … The German Environment Agency (UBA) has proposed aligning VAT more closely …

  • Newsletter from 07.06.2019 | Last changed: 07.06.2019

    Newsletter "UBA aktuell" - No.: 3/2019

    … rather than fossil fuels is generally positive for our climate. At the same time, however, biogas plants also pose a risk to people, our climate and the … organisms. The present project contributes to filling environmental data gaps for… Series Texte Page number 165 Year of publication 2019 Economic Opportunities of …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 08.12.2025

    Cluster Coastal and marine protection

    The picture shows a sectional view of a wild sea with waves crashing over projecting posts. The sky is tinged with orange and covered in dark clouds. Here and there rays of sunshine are breaking through the cloud cover.

    … sensitivity. This zone is home to many rare animal and plant species. At the same time, the sea and adjacent coastal areas are of major economic importance. For … to be major employers (cf. ‘Fisheries’ action field). In addition, there is the maritime industry such as ship- and boatbuilding with its suppliers and service …

  • Press release 29/08 from 15.04.2008 | Last changed: 03.07.2013

    Noise Awareness Day 2008

    … with the precautionary values set by the World Health Organization, namely daytime levels of 55 decibels, 45 at night”, said UBA President Prof. Dr. Andreas … on more than 800,000 persons living in the vicinity of a German airport with night-time flight activity.  People who are exposed to high levels of night-time aircraft …

  • News from 26.10.2015 | Last changed: 26.10.2015

    How to assess land and soil degradation on global level?

    Water erosion on landfield

    … efforts have been made to assess state and trends in global land and soils. Over time, the scope widened from drylands to total terrestrial land, and definitions of … applied. Uncertainties aside, most experts agree that at this point in time some 20-25% of terrestrial surface area are affected by land degradation. It is …

  • Press release 26/2015 from 21.07.2015 | Last changed: 23.01.2017

    Chemical brownfields: forest soil is very slow to forget

    photo of a forest

    … for more than 30 years. DDT – an insecticide which has been banned for a long time and was last sprayed in Germany in 1985 to control the bark beetle in … are higher concentrations of substances which in part have been banned for a long time, in particular at former industrial sites in Saarland, the Ruhr area and the …

  • Press release 29/2019 from 11.09.2019 | Last changed: 01.11.2019

    Real nitrogen oxide emissions of diesel passenger cars remain too high

    Stau in der Stadt.

    … For older model passenger cars and light duty vehicles, HBEFA for the first time now accounts for the correlation between nitrogen oxide emissions and ambient … 6a/b/c) mg NOx/km. A software update in the two million VW vehicles with an EA 189 series engine which have an installed defeat device became mandatory, a process that …

  • Cover from 12.11.2024

    International Environmental Specimen Bank Group: ESBs

    ESB map

    … information on the individual programmes. Asia The  Japanese Environmental Specimen Time Capsule Programme of the National Institute of Environmental Science (NIES) in … established in 1980. Nest to opportunistic samples of e.g. endangered birds, the Time Capsule Programme regularly samples bivalves, fish and sediments from the …

  • Newsletter from 05.02.2025 | Last changed: 10.02.2025

    Newsletter "UBA aktuell" - No.: 01/2025

    … environmental and nature conservation information located at the UBA. For the first time, data on environmental protection and nature conservation from all over Germany … are to be used as a basis for the derivation of possible Ecodesign requirements. Series Texte Page number 79 Year of publication 2025 Reusable quota for beverages …

  • News from 01.06.2021 | Last changed: 09.06.2021

    UBA asks EU Commission to foster sustainable use of biocides

    Preservative wood into the dose

    … biocides in the later Directive 2009/128/EC. This was not considered at that time but the planned extension of the Directive to biocides at a later stage is … Council in its council conclusions “Sustainable Chemicals Strategy of the Union: Time to Deliver” in March 2021 underlined the need for a sustainable use of …

  • Press release 32/2019 from 17.09.2019 | Last changed: 30.09.2019

    40 years of innovative ideas to promote environmental protection

    Logo: Umweltinnovationsprogramm mit einem blaugrünen Zeichen, das an ein Zahnrad erinnert, aber auch an einen Haken, der zeigt, das alles in Ordnung ist.

    … go hand in hand. We need innovations to master the ecological challenges of our time. Environmental protection is a good driver of innovation." The Environmental … to new challenges. In the 1970s, acid rain was a major environmental issue. At the time, the lignite power plant in Wilhelmshaven used funds from the IUP to develop a …

  • Project of the Consulting Assistance Program from 28.03.2023

    Conservation of the endangered Danube Clouded Yellow butterfly (Colias myrmidone) in Natura 2000 sites of Romania

    … Lüneburg Universitätsallee 1 Campus Scharnhorststraße 21335 Lüneburg Deutschland Runtime 15.06.2017 to 30.11.2022 The project supported efforts to protect an EU-wide … Project information (English) (159.26 kB) Projektinformation (German) (145.38 kB) Time to act (Brochure, English) (27.06 MB) E timpul sa actionam (Brochure, Romanian) …