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  • Press release 06/2024 from 01.02.2024 | Last changed: 15.02.2024

    Climate benefit for electric cars confirmed

    Electric cars registered in 2020 are around 40 per cent more climate-friendly than cars with petrol engines.

    … benefits of their use. The disadvantages of electric cars are largely due to the fact that electricity is still generated from fossil fuels. In the course of the … a decrease in the pH value in soils and bodies of water and is responsible for the fact that nutrients and minerals that are important for plants (e.g. calcium, …

  • News from 02.04.2020 | Last changed: 14.04.2020

    Risks and opportunities in responding to the coronavirus crisis

    Prof. Dr. Dirk Messner

    … been described several times. The geosystems could reach a tipping point: the ice sheet of Greenland, the melting of which implies a seven-metre rise in sea levels, … correct in principle, but it is easier formulated than it is realised. It is also a fact that multilateralism has been weakened in recent years by the rise of …

  • Press release 80/08 from 19.11.2008 | Last changed: 01.07.2013

    The Blue Angel - Active in Climate Protection

    … has significantly shaped the product-related environmental policy in Germany. The fact that this sought-after label is awarded only to the products with the best … are today already available in the market in many product groups. However, manufacturers and retailers often do not adequately advertise these products and …

  • Press release 3/08 from 14.01.2008 | Last changed: 05.07.2013

    Exposure to traffic and aircraft noise are recipes for illness

    … questionnaires ensured there were no differences in certain sociodemographic risk factors, e.g. age or education, or other health risk factors such as smoking, obesity, physical activity and exercise. The results from … produced rather different results in a sub-sampling conducted in Berlin.  In fact, mainly daytime noise exposure (measured between 6 am and 10 pm) was associated …

  • Press release 02/2016 from 22.01.2016 | Last changed: 23.01.2017

    Plant protection: Less is best and lower-risk

    a hand protects crops on a field

    … they meet a high standard of environmental requirements. A particularly important factor is the reduction of the overall use of plant protection agents and promoting … sustainable plant protection and provide recommendations on how they can in fact be implemented.” In addition to the need to reduce the use of plant protection … they meet a high standard of environmental requirements. A particularly important factor is the reduction of the overall use of plant protection agents and promoting …

  • Press release 43/2019 from 18.11.2019 | Last changed: 27.11.2019

    Consumption of packaging in Germany increased further in 2017

    Metalldosen und Plastikabfall

    … is often difficult to sort and recycle due to the variety of materials used and the fact that packaging is seldom designed with its recyclability in mind. Packaging … in 2019. It lists all the businesses which place packaging on the market and are in fact meeting their financial product responsibility in the dual systems and thereby …

  • Newsletter from 26.04.2018 | Last changed: 26.04.2018

    Newsletter "UBA aktuell" - No.: 2/2018

    … applied method for calculating the burden of disease attributable to environmental factors was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and is used by several … 2018” (Environment and Agriculture 2018) brochure, the UBA has collated facts on the agricultural sector.  read more (in German) New waste sorting system to … cytotoxicity, genotoxicity and estrogenic like activity of migration waters. Series fact sheet Page number 2 Year of publication 2018 Documentation of the Expert Forum …

  • Press release 20/12 from 31.05.2012 | Last changed: 01.07.2013

    Scope of information about chemicals improved

    … to identify more than 70 chemicals known as Substances of Very High Concern. In fact, 14 chemicals may no longer be used without authorisation as of 2014 and 2015. … requirements, and spot checks have shown that the information provided by manufacturers and importers is sometimes vague in that known hazards either remain …