Ziel der Studie ist die Fortführung des Monitorings der Umweltverbandsklage von 2021-2023. Damit setzten das Unabhängige Institut für Umweltfragen e. V. und Prof. Dr. Schmidt die Erhebungen seit Einführung der Umweltverbandsklage fort. So kann die Entwicklung der Zahl, Klagegegenstände, Erfolgsquote sowie Anzahl der aktiv klagenden Verbände bei den Umweltverbandsklagen gezeigt werden. Zudem wurde ein möglicher Zusammenhang zwischen der Dauer von Gerichtsverfahren und dem Wegfall der Präklusion untersucht. Die Studie enthält außerdem mehrere Gutachten, in denen erfahrene Rechtswissenschaftler*innen aktuelle Fragestellungen des Umweltrechtsschutzes untersuchten.
This report analyses the role of Germany’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union, which took place from 1 July until 31 December 2020, concerning the topics of digitalisation and sustainability. A document analysis of press releases, articles, and speeches as well as relevant background reports published during the German Council Presidency revealed that the discourse on digitalisation and sustainability revolved around three nexuses: 1. "Sustainable digitalisation", 2. "Digitalisation for sustainability", and 3. "Digitalisation and sustainability in silos". Discussions focused primarily on four areas: environment, transport and mobility, digital economy, and recovery. Based on the results of the analysis, we first suggest future priorities in these areas. Second, additional potential future priority areas are discussed, namely circular economy, energy systems, housing, and biodiversity. Third, we propose additional perspectives that might be relevant for future debates. Finally, we analyse the interlinkages between digitalisation and sustainability within the policy documents and how additional policy frameworks can be fruitfully included in future debates.
The European Green Deal states that moving from a linear to a circular economy is a key strategy to reduce resource consumption by repairing, reusing, remanufacturing, and recycling materials and products. Yet, the establishment of a circular economy in the European Union (EU) is still in an early stage. This report thus outlines how digitalisation can support the implementation of a circular economy and discusses the key role that governance for circularity can play in this context. The overall aim is to formulate recommendations for priorities for action, which the German government can link to the activities of the European Commission. The recommendations are based on an analysis of the role of Germany’s Presidency of the Council of the EU regarding topics related to digitalisation and sustainability (REPORT 1), an expert workshop on digital circular economy (DCE) carried out in April 2022 and a literature review that deepened some of the workshop discussions. The analysis found that the potentials of a DCE are manifold and relate to improving products and business models along the entire circular value chain. Underlying these potentials is often the use of digital technologies for product tracking and monitoring as well as for a transparent digital data exchange. Further, it is argued that governance for circularity can be a key issue to empower stakeholders to move towards a DCE. Based on these findings, recommendations for EU and national policy makers are outlined to support the development of a systemic and coherent strategy for a DCE within the EU.
The world is entering a digital era that changes everyday business practices and lifestyles. Digital technologies are said to support sustainable development and create untapped potentials in many areas, for instance, by reducing energy and resource consumption. However, social and ecological drawbacks have become much more apparent where digitalisation has not lived up to its ascribed potentials. Over the past years, voices have become louder advocating for a green and digital twin transition. Similarly, the European Commission has supported the twin transition by setting it as a priority in line with the European Green Deal. This report presents project findings on how to support the twin transition through a concept of digital sufficiency. A premise of sufficiency as a guiding principle for the digital transformation is that technological innovation alone cannot solve societal problems. Unsustainable practices and behaviours must be either reduced or replaced by sustainable alternatives. The aim of this report is to support the German government’s position in EU debates and to formulate recommendations for priorities for action, which the government can link to the activities of the European Commission. This is done by drawing on an analysis of the role of the German Council Presidency in supporting the twin transition in Europe, both an online survey and an expert workshop on digital sufficiency as well as a literature analysis to deepen some of the expert discussions. Our analyses find that although digital sufficiency has potentials to bring new perspectives into existing debates, work on the concept is still in its infancy. Future work needs to frame the concept and link it to existing policy debates to make it relevant for policy. This report provides the first building block towards carrying out this work and outlines policy recommendations towards supporting the twin transition through digital sufficiency.
This report examines the environmental justice implications of digitalisation in the EU and provides recommendations for short to medium term action. Environmental justice covers the fairness of both the decision-making process as well as the differential environmental effects of different policies. The focus here is on participation in environmental decision-making and fairness in the ICT value chain because these are areas where there has already been some progress, but where civil society actors have also identified a need for further urgent action. The issues of access to information, digital tools, and systemic change are also examined, as well as suggestions for how to better integrate a broader agenda for justice in sustainable digitalisation into the EU policy framework, going beyond incremental improvements and taking into account broader issues such as social and economic inequality.
Im Rahmen des internationalen Moosmonitorings 2020/2021 (ICP Vegetation, Genfer Luftreinhaltekonvention) wurden an 25 Standorten in Deutschland Moosproben genommen und im Labor analysiert. Erstmals wurde neben langlebigen organischen Schadstoffen (POPs), Schwermetallen und reaktiven Stickstoffverbindungen auch Mikroplastik in den Proben untersucht. Die Ergebnisse werden genutzt, um die räumliche Verteilung der atmosphärischen Belastung und zeitliche Entwicklungen im Eintrag von Luftschadstoffen in Ökosysteme zu beobachten und zu bewerten.
The new European Commission should pursue ambitious policies aimed at reducing both greenhouse gas emissions and pollution, even as priorities shift to security and defense. Here are recommendations by the German Environment Agency (UBA) and the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) for giving impetus to climate, environmental and biodiversity policy.Die neue Europäische Kommission sollte eine ehrgeizige Politik verfolgen, die darauf abzielt, sowohl die Treibhausgasemissionen als auch die Umweltverschmutzung zu reduzieren, auch wenn sich die Prioritäten auf Sicherheit und Verteidigung verlagern. Hier finden Sie Empfehlungen des Umweltbundesamtes (UBA) und des Bundesamtes für Naturschutz (BfN), um der Klima-, Umwelt- und Naturschutzpolitik neue Impulse zu geben.
Dieser Leitfaden soll eine Hilfestellung im Hinblick auf die einheitliche Berechnung und Berichterstattung von THG-Emissionen entlang von Transportketten geben. Es werden Anforderungen und Berechnungsmöglichkeiten dargelegt, die sich aus der ISO 14083 ergeben, und neue Begriffe und Abkürzungen erläutert. Kontinuierliche Beispiele illustrieren die Anwendung der Norm und adressieren Herausforderungen, die bei der Anwendung der Norm auftreten können.
[...] prepared as part of the Refoplan project “Distributional effects of a transport transition (Verteilungswirkungen einer Verkehrswende – VERVE): Analysis of distributional effects of environmental policy instruments in the transport sector and an overall concept for an ecological and inclusive transport transition” (FKZ 3720 58 108 0)
Die Bundesregierung hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, mit der Entwicklung einer Nationalen Kreislaufwirtschaftsstrategie (NKWS) einen entscheidenden Beitrag zur Senkung des primären Rohstoffverbrauchs, der Reduzierung der Umweltbelastung, zum Klimaschutz und zur Ressourcenschonung zu schaffen bei gleichzeitiger Sicherung der Rohstoffversorgung. Dieses Papier fasst die Empfehlungen der Ressourcenkommission am Umweltbundesamt (KRU) zur NKWS zusammen. Die KRU ist ein Gremium unabhängiger Expertinnen und Experten, welches das Umweltbundesamt mit konkreten Vorschlägen zur Ressourcenpolitik berät.
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