… Climate friendly mobile air conditioning for buses Bus of Berlin’s public transport … for buses New coaches are normally air conditioned. Increasing numbers of city and intercity buses also got mobile air conditioning. I n 1993, the proportion of …

… Building air conditioning Room air conditioners contain environmentally harmful HFCs and use a lot of electricity. Source: kanvag / Fotolia.com It is only recently that … used in more than 95 percent of Germany’s air conditioners strongly affect the climate. last update on 26.03.2019 Building air conditioning in Germany Germany is … low cost approach is running a sorption chiller using cogeneration plant waste heat. This solution combines a low cost heat source with a heat sink that is …

… / Adobe Stock Heat pumps are coming into increasing use for heating of buildings and for hot water production in commercial as well as industrial applications. Heat … of earth, water and air, these also use other heat sources such as process heat, waste heat from building air conditioning or waste water. Depending on the task and …

… Supermarket refrigeration Supermarkets should cool climate friendly, energy-efficient and without fluorocarbon. Source: Bernard Bailly / Fotolia.com According to the …

… Emissions and degradation products Sun and clouds over the Indian Ocean Source: NASA … have an extremely high Global Warming Potential. last update on 20.07.2023 Climate protection programmes The EU has decided to reduce greenhouse gas emissions …

… Fluorinated greenhouse gases and fully halogenated CFCs Some fluorinated greenhouse gases, halons and CFCs have … to phase down another group of substances that are particularly damaging to the climate – hydrofluorocarbons (HFC). last update on 04.04.2024 International …

… of drinking water supplies Safe drinking-water management Source: UBA: WSP-Handbuch Drinking-water is most likely safe if all process steps – i.e. abstraction, … Strategic Workshop on Water Safety Planning, 12 – 13 March 2014 (212.62 kB) Climate Resilient Water Safety Plans (CR-WSP) - Compilation of potential hazardous …

… Identifying and managing flood risks Comprehensive and river basin-wide management is needed to … of measures has progressed and whether new findings, for example adaptions to climate change, make it necessary to adjust flood risk management and planned …

… Research and development projects on nanomaterials Nano structures are more than … / Fotolia.com The German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) is currently funding and guiding the research and development projects on nanomaterials and other advanced materials …