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Veröffentlichung Heavy Freight. Big Challenge. One Goal.(German Environment Agency, 2024)Freight transport keeps the world running. In Germany freight transport has grown massively these past 30 years, by 75 %. Its climate-harming emissions are nowadays 25 % higher. Continuously high burdens of air pollution, noise and land consumption represent the downside of freight transport.The German Environment Agency (UBA) with this brochure attempts to present a vision for an environmentally sustainable freight transport by the year 2045 and recommends over 70 individual measures. Those measures addressing international, national and local types of transport would initialise necessary changes in order to achieve the above-mentioned vision and carry out important aspects of, fittingly, changing of points. This brochure addresses economics, politics and society.Veröffentlichung Methodological Convention 3.2 for the Assessment of Environmental Costs(German Environment Agency, 2024)The new version of the UBA Handbook on Environmental Value Factors – the „Methodological Convention 3.2” – contains a partial update of the monetized environmental impacts published in the “Methodological Convention 3.1”, based on new value factors for greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions. A comprehensive update of all value factors – including components such as emission factors and utilization rates – will be published in the Handbook on Environmental Value Factors 4.0, scheduled for 2025.Environmental value factors reflect the benefit of environmental protection for society – and the costs that society incurs if environmental protection is neglected. The value factors can be used in the public sector to assess, e.g., the impacts of regulation and infrastructure investments, and for the design of economic instruments. In the corporate sector, the value factors can be used, i.a., to inform management decisions, monetize the environmental impacts of financial investments, and in sustainability reporting.Veröffentlichung Brochure: Digitalisation and natural resources(German Environment Agency, 2024)The ‘DigitalRessourcen’ research project analysed the resource intensity and greenhouse gas emissions of the digital transformation in Germany at both micro and macro level. The resource intensity of digital applications was calculated in ten case studies (micro level) using LCA methodology. At the macro level, raw material consumption (RMC), raw material input (RMI) and the carbon footprint of digitalisation in Germany were calculated for the ICT sector for the years 2000-2020 and seven scenarios were modelled for the years 2020-2050. Based on this, areas for shaping a more sustainable digitalisation and the need for further research were identified.Veröffentlichung What Matters 2-2020: 30 Years German Unity(2020)Each issue of the German Environment Agency's magazine "Schwerpunkt" is devoted to relevant topics in the field of environmental protection. It is published every six months. In issue 2-2020, UBA looks back on 30 years of German unification from an environmental perspective. The topics: The state of water, soil, air and climate at the time of reunification | Contaminated sites in Bitterfeld-Wolfen | The environmental movement as the beginning of the peaceful revolution | Interviews with contemporary witnesses | UBA site in Dessau-Roßlau: From gas quarter to green showpiece building.Veröffentlichung From quantum computing to the future of inner cities and a new world order(German Environment Agency, 2023)In the second horizon scanning process of the environment department, the following ten emerging future topics have been identified and elaborated that could be of high environmental relevance:Quantum computingCryptocurrenciesTechnological innovations on the way to climate-friendly air transportNew regionalismResilience as the basis of a sustainable societyMobile workGrowing through crises: The EU's changing scope for actionWorld (dis)orderShaping opinions in the digital ageThe future of inner citiesThe future issues presented in this report have been identified in the context of the Corona pandemic and Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine. The report thus includes entirely new future topics as well as already known future topics that have been influenced by the pandemic and the war of aggression, but have acquired a new environmentally relevant quality.Veröffentlichung Environmental research and governance in the digital age(German Environment Agency, 2024)Digitalisation is profoundly changing our society and therefore also the way in which the environment is researched and governance is carried out. E-government is intended to make administration more efficient and bring it closer to citizens, while new ideas are constantly being implemented in environmental research, such as the CO2 calculator, apps for sustainable consumption or big data-supported climate simulations. But are these measures already exploiting the full potential that digitalisation holds for the environment department and its environmental research and governance in the digital age? And how will the work of the environment department change when citizens, civil society, companies, science and politics, and therefore society as a whole, undergo major changes as a result of digitalisation?Veröffentlichung Components for the Transformation into a Sustainable Food System(German Environment Agency, 2024)The publication summarizes three strategies for transforming the food system that have been outlined in the “STErn project”, namely the promotion of a more plant-based diet, the further development of the organic farming and food industry and the strengthening of regional value chains. Measures to implement these strategies are bundled into three overarching approaches and presented graphically in the form of profiles. An interactive graphic provides an overview of all 39 proposed measures at a glance.Veröffentlichung Environmental Monitor 2024(German Environment Agency, 2024)With the indicator report "Data on the Environment – Environmental Monitor 2024", the German Environment Agency provides a condensed picture of the state of the environment, the causes of environmental pollution and starting points for improved policy action. For this purpose, a total of 30 important environmental indicators were selected and, where available, underpinned with existing political goals – for example, from the German sustainability strategy or EU directives. In summary, the system of environmental indicators provides a stocktaking of German environmental policy.Veröffentlichung Transformative environmental policy: consistently promote and shape sustainable development(2020) Wolff, Franziska; Heyen, Dirk Arne; Brohmann, Bettina; Deutschland. Umweltbundesamt. Fachgebiet I.1.1-Grundsatzfragen, Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien und -szenarien, Ressourcenschonung; Lindenthal, Alexandra; Veenhoff, SylviaMany environmental problems have been successfully resolved in recent decades. However some are persistent and prove difficult to solve, and new ones have been added. Environmental problems can be particularly persistent if their causes are closely linked to the way we do business, to central aspects of our society or to lifestyles that are perceived as attractive. This guide can help staff in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU ) to tackle such environmental problems. For this purpose, approaches to "transformative environmental policy" are presented. Quelle: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/Veröffentlichung International paths for more resource efficiency(Umweltbundesamt, 2020) Auberger, Andreas; Dittrich, Monika; Limberger, Sonja; Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung; Deutschland. Umweltbundesamt; Manstein, ChristopherThe brochure describes ways to increase resource efficiency and presents approaches to policies and trends in nine countries. The summary is based on the results of the research project "Monitoring international resource policy", which was carried out between 2016 and 2019 under the direction of the ifeu - Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg GmbH on behalf of the German Environment Agency. The thematic focus is on activities in the areas of production, consumption as well as waste and recycling management. The countries examined include Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea and the United States. All countries pursue approaches to resource efficiency that differ in terms of priorities and funding instruments. Source: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
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