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  • News from 27.07.2022 | Last changed: 28.07.2022

    Pesticide authorisations put our ground-& drinkingwater at risk

    A hand holding a water glass can be seen.

    … the conditions to be unlawful ( UBA article "Pesticide authorisations undermine environmental protection" ). What the court had decided for a single product was … the EU. This limit value should consider not only toxicological effects but also environmentally critical properties such as persistence, mobility and risks for …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 30.09.2024

    Cluster Civic protection

    The picture shows two emergency vehicles with blue lights switched on, one of the vehicles is a fire engine and the other one a blue emergency relief (THW) vehicle. Both vehicles are only partly visible.

    … into the hazard and prevention awareness of the German population by means of the environmental awareness studies conducted at regular intervals. However, as the … extent, if at all. With regard to civil protection and its further development, the environmental awareness studies also only provide a limited picture: for example, it … in case’ is one of the measures that serve this purpose. The findings of studies on environmental awareness indicate that the population’s awareness and sensibility are …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 17.12.2024

    BD-I-3: Temperature index of butterfly species communities

    The picture shows a wall brown butterfly spreading its wings while sitting on a violet-coloured blossom.

    … show particular sensitivity Butterflies are sensitive to a great number of environmental factors. To make matters worse, those factors often interact with each … index of butterfly communities. … Butterflies are sensitive to a great number of environmental factors. To make matters worse, those factors often interact with each …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 08.12.2025

    Cluster Tourism industry

    The picture shows a man from behind. He is wearing a T shirt and short trousers. He is walking through a wood carrying a rucksack. To the right and left of the path, white flowers are blooming beneath the trees.

    … entitled ‘Measures for adaptation to the impacts of climate change’, the KfW bank’s environmental programme and the German Federal Environmental Foundation’s environmental protection funding programme. Likewise, …

  • News from 06.08.2018 | Last changed: 01.10.2018

    Online survey: Chemicals in consumer goods

    Yellow rubber ducks

    … High Concern (SVHC) may be carcinogenic, endocrine-disrupting or are considered an environmental health risk. The EU LIFE project AskREACH is raising awareness among …

  • Press release 070/08 from 23.10.2008 | Last changed: 19.07.2013

    Information on energy-efficient city lighting

    … of experts comprised of delegates from economic associations, municipalities, and environmental associations. A great number of suppliers in the lighting industry … and become eligible for investment funding provided through the BMU programme for environmental innovation. Other contestants will also benefit from the competition, …

  • Press release 12/10 from 04.03.2010 | Last changed: 05.07.2013

    Export of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE): plenty of gold, and poison, too

    … In their one-and-a-half-year-long study experts from the Hamburg Institute for Environmental Strategies (Ökopol) compiled the most solid information as yet on the … the Laender , concerned federal ministries, municipal umbrella organisations, environmental and economic associations, and the European Commission with a request …

  • Press release 16/2014 from 02.04.2014 | Last changed: 23.01.2017

    Loss of biodiversity on fields

    Lerche

    … modern, intensive agriculture. Many of these practices are already part of the agri-environmental programmes of the German Federal States, and therefore we have gained … any unacceptable effects on biodiversity. The UBA does an extensive analysis of the environmental risks of a plant protection agent before it is approved, and it issues …

  • Press release 40/2015 from 23.11.2015 | Last changed: 23.01.2017

    Federal Ecodesign Award for outstanding ecological and aesthetic products and services

    Logo: eco Bundespreis ecodesign weiterdenken

    … doesn't start at the moment of purchase, it starts at the design stage. Most of the environmental impact of a product – sometimes up to 80% – is determined by its … of Fine Arts And Design, for a logistics system for container ship traffic The environmental and design experts of the jury nominated 33 projects from a total of …