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Wood-fired heating systems emit more particulate matter locally than road traffic

A panel discussion on environmental risks and an effective environmental risk assessment of veterinary medicines will be held in Brussels, Belgium on 04 March 2015.

How much water is used in Germany and for what purposes? What are the pressures on our waters? What is being done about it? Find out the answers to these and many other questions in our two-part Water Resource Management in Germany publication.

This is the conclusion of the European Environment Agency in its annual report on the pressures of the transport sector on the environment.

Production of biomass and its use to generate electricity and heat have increased greatly in Germany in recent years, driven by the Renewable Energy Sources Act. The Agriculture Commission at the UBA (KLU) has formulated recommendations on how its further expansion can be designed in an environmentally and nature-friendly way.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published Part II of the current World Climate Report on 31 March 2014.

Federal Environment Agency gives the all-clear: despite high levels of antibiotics use in industrialised farming, Germany’s groundwater is mostly uncontaminated.

Under the European Chemicals legislation REACH the release of a substance into the environment is estimated on the basis of emission factors.

Greenhouse gas emissions in Germany rose again slightly in 2013, by 1.2 per cent compared to the previous year.

An advisory assistance project supported Bulgaria in bringing the quality management system for its greenhouse gas inventory into line with scientific and technical progress.

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has begun an advisory assistance project managed by UBA, entitled “Environmental monitoring using satellite remote sensing methods based on the example of spring flooding in the Republic of Bashkortostan/Russia”.