… issues must also be clarified – first and foremost, packaging prevention. Packaging use in Germany is at a historic high and continues to increase. Producers and first … of further potential to prevent packaging can be tapped from reusable packaging used in e-commerce shipping and reusable "to go" packaging for food and drinks. In …

… potential through resource efficiency Tags cost analysis sustainable resource use … Costing is an instrument that promotes resource efficiency …

… Source: Gabi Wolfertz The following contents contain this medium: Single-Use Plastic Fund: UBA waives requirement to verify quanties in 2025 2019 … …

… Germany’s surface area is covered with forests. The majority of these forests are used for forestry. In the past, forest management mainly concentrated on high timber … droughts and attacks by pathogens. Soils are degraded by monocultures and the use of heavy machines. Biodiversity in these forests is generally lower than in …

… environment. Source: FG II 2.3 / UBA The following contents contain this medium: Use and Impact … Ports promote trade, but have an impact on the marine environment. …

… global warming to 1.5°C. To achieve this, it is essential to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions towards zero. Additional measures are needed to remove CO2 from … yet they are a necessary supplement. Well suited for this are sustainable land use measures, such as soil carbon sequestration in agricultural soils, protection … implementation of BECCS increases competition with food production and other land uses, due to the required large areas of biomass production. It also can have …

… analysis) Climate change impacts increasingly considered in landscape planning Land use has a major influence on biodiversity, which makes it one of the core starting … challenges for a nature-compatible and future-oriented approach to controlling land use, in view of the fact that the competition for land is certain to increase. The … of renewable energies for the purpose of climate protection, but especially the use of biomass for energy generation entails the intensification of land use …

… Ensuring application safety and the environmentally compatible development and use of nanomaterials and other advanced materials … Dimmable glass panels replace …

… Source: Thomas Stüber / Fotolia The following contents contain this medium: Rise in use of problematic plant protection products Tags biodiversity honey bee Raps … …

… suitable alternate habitats by roads and the lack of continuity of the intensively used agricultural landscape for dispersal and migration movements. In the mountains, … can be taken to counter them. Regional web portals such as Neobiota-Nord are useful for this purpose. Should invasive species newly appear, the Federal Nature …