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  • Article from 03.12.2020 | Last changed: 07.12.2020

    Immission control law

    Two chimneys blow out white smoke

    … Immission control law Immissions refer to the impact of external pollutants on man and nature. Source: Christian Noval / Fotolia.com Immission control is one of the … protection law. Its aim is to reduce potentially harmful impacts on human beings and their environment (immissions) by means of risk prevention and precautionary measures. last update on 03.12.2020 The main purpose of immission …

  • Article from 10.01.2018 | Last changed: 10.01.2018

    Spatial planning law

    Industrial facilities on the river

    … Spatial planning law construction of more and more new industrial facilities destroys the landscape Source: fotolehmann / Fotolia.com Many projects that make use of land can … governance and development, that is to say conflicting individual interests and higher interests such as environmental protection must be settled as fairly as …

  • Article from 19.06.2024 | Last changed: 20.06.2024

    International environmental law

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    … strategies for combating climate change: reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to unavoidable climate change. For some time now there has been an increasing political focus on ideas and suggestions designed to combat climate change by using technological means to … policy option. See our article Geoengineering-Governance . Environmental migration and international law Around the world, people are threatened by serious …

  • Article from 13.06.2023 | Last changed: 11.08.2025

    Air monitoring networks

    … Länder can be answered there by qualified staff. Baden-Wurttemberg Bavaria Berlin Brandenburg Bremen Hamburg Hesse Mecklenburg-West Pomerania Lower Saxony North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland Saxony Saxony-Anhalt Schleswig-Holstein Thuringia Measurement of long-range and

  • Article from 07.02.2023 | Last changed: 14.11.2024

    Relevant Micropollutants

    … Micropollutants Which micropollutants are an environmental risk for water bodies and should therefore be scrutinised more closely? This is evaluated by the Committee … made up of experts from authorities, industry, academia, environmental and water associations. This page lists the micropollutants that have been evaluated … dossier is divided into: Application Selected data on occurrence in water bodies and biota Micropollutant properties according to relevance criteria Equivalent …

  • Article from 12.06.2025 | Last changed: 18.06.2025

    Climate Action in Agriculture on a global level

    A farmer plows a field with a ox plow

    … complex when looking at the many different national, regional, climatic, cultural and political circumstances of agriculture around the world. Greenhouse gas reduction and climate adaptation, food security, biodiversity, land rights and land use … sectors (e.g. fertiliser production, energy consumption on the farm) or leads to higher indirect emissions through increased fertiliser use and/or feed production …

  • Article from 10.08.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Military and armament contaminated sites

    Military and armament contaminated sites Although there is no legal definition in Germany for the terms Militärische Altlasten (military-contaminated sites) and Rüstungsaltlasten (armanent-contaminated sites), they nonetheless fall within … military sites, contact the competent federal or regional-state authorities. … Military and armament contaminated sites

  • Article from 10.01.2022 | Last changed: 25.01.2024

    Digital services / Cloud computing

    someone is typing on a laptop, with symbols for cloud computing such as clouds and download arrows above them

    … as possible Source: Blue Planet Studio / Adobe Stock Home office, videoconferencing and streaming services are digital services that are nowadays taken for granted. But what about the environmental impact of cloud services and the critical resources which are used in servers, data storage systems and network technology? We took a closer look. last update on 10.01.2022 Research …

  • Article from 04.12.2024 | Last changed: 05.12.2024

    Economic aspects of transport

    Stau auf einer Autobahn

    … last update on 04.12.2024 Economic considerations Although the transport of people and goods ensures mobility and a wide variety of products, it also incurs a number of costs. Whereas the … a result, there is a large of volume of transport performance whose total cost is higher than its benefit. In order to contain the economy’s transport volume to a …

  • Article from 14.10.2020 | Last changed: 28.04.2023

    Curbing overdevelopment

    … Curbing overdevelopment Average per capita land use in Germany for residential purposes alone amounted to 47 square meters in … a figure that is likely to rise. At the same time, new construction on greenfield land is on the rise, while increasing numbers of apartment buildings, other … experienced declines in both population and the numbers of households, resulting in higher vacancy rates and fewer housing starts. Since 2011, the euro crisis combined …

  • Article from 01.04.2022 | Last changed: 08.12.2022

    Digitalisation as engine of transformation for a green economy

    a green globe lies in green grass, inside it the word "CO2" with three arrows pointing down. Around the globe placed five icons: Wind turbines, e-car, solar plant, power plant and hand with leaves.

    … in the past. A research project is now investigating the application areas and transformation potential of big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital platforms for a green economy. last update on 01.04.2022 The term ‘Green … the guiding principle of an ecologically sustainable economy that links ecology and economy in a positive way and increases societal prosperity. Ten years on, …

  • Article from 05.03.2025 | Last changed: 05.03.2025

    Distributing drinking water

    … Ordinance all the way to the tap. Its distribution via the water company’s mains and the drinking water systems of individual buildings brings it into contact with a … However, lead dissolves in water in concentrations which bear a risk to health and is therefore not suitable as a material for drinking water installations. It … In the drinking water installations area, a variety of materials - such as plastics and metals for pipes, sealing materials and valves - are used which might be …