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cornerstones for a safe and sustainable life cycle
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Neuartige Materialien, Nanomaterialien, Chemikaliensicherheit, advanced materials, nanomaterials, chemical safety, Agenda 2030
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Schwirn, K., & Völker, D. (2023). Advanced materials. Umweltbundesamt. https://doi.org/10.60810/openumwelt-3559
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Advanced materials promise technical solutions to support sustainable transformation. They play an important role for a variety of environmental topics worked on at UBA, such as energy transition, circular economy and chemical safety. Various sectors can benefit from the use of advanced materials, but they can also face challenges. The UBA position paper describes the area of tension between the promising use and possible challenges for environmental and health protection and other sustainability dimensions, illustrates this with various examples and derives corner stones for a safe and sustainable life cycle of advanced materials. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
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Strategic Research Agenda for Safe Advanced Materials
(German Environment Agency, 2026)
The German federal authorities responsible for human and environmental safety, and metrology – the German Environment Agency (UBA), the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), and the National Metrology Institute (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, PTB) - are accompanying the rapid pace of innovation of advanced materials with a long term research strategy focusing on safety research needs from a regulatory perspective. The strategy builds on former joint research strategies on nanomaterials and advanced materials and highlights current research priorities to enable regulatory preparedness for material innovations and better connect safety research with innovation research.