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Date: February 21, 2025 Water management
Tables on the subject: Public and nonpublic water supply and waste water disposal, 2022. Own extraction or external procurement of water and discharge of waste water and unused water
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Date: December 12, 2024 Current data on the tourism industry - Short version - Tourism Satellite Account für Economy and Environment (TSA-EE) - 2015 bis 2021
...The Tourism Satellite Account for Economy and Environment (TSA-EE) of the German Federal Statistical Office quantifies the economic, environmental and labour market significance of the tourism industry in Germany. This allows for a direct comparison of the results at a macroeconomic level. This publication is the English short version of the more comprehensive project report and provides information on the project results for the years 2015-2021. ...
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Date: March 28, 2023 Water management
Tables on the subject: Public and nonpublic water supply and waste water disposal, 2019. Own extraction or external procurement of water and discharge of waste water and unused water
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Date: November 14, 2024 Water management
Tables on the subject: Rate of connection and water distribution to housholds, business and other customers.
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Date: November 14, 2024 Water management
Tables on the subject: Municiapalities with public and private waste water disposal.
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Date: February 16, 2024 How are Germany’s ecosystems faring? The introduction of regular condition accounting
The aim of the Federal Statistical Office’s ecosystem accounts is to create a uniform data basis nationwide on the extent, condition and services of ecosystems. The accounts support monitoring and environmental policy analysis and are an important …
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Date: April 23, 2021 Environmental protection measures
Table on the subject: environmental protection expenditure, investment expenditure and expenditure (in millions of euros) for the years 2010, 2014 to 2018. The relevant expenditure is indicated for corporations, general government and households.
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Date: December 21, 2023 Fostering the coherence of Environmental-Economic Accounting and extending by Environmental Subsidies and Similar Transfers (ESST) and Potentially Environmentally Damaging Subsidies (PEDS) - Project report
...A concept for the reporting of such potentially environmentally damaging subsidies was developed and implemented for 2018 as well. These new and the already existing environmental-economic accounts in Germany overlap with respect to their methodologies and data sources. Integrated compilation processes based on these overlaps were conceptually developed and, in some instances, technically implemented for 2018. ...
Press Release
Press release No. N 037 of 21 June 2022 2.2 million photovoltaic power stations installed in Germany
Increasing numbers of enterprises and households use solar energy for electricity production. In March 2022, there were 2.2 million photovoltaic power systems installed on roofs or the ground, providing a total net capacity of 58,400 megawatts. The …
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Press release No. 526 of 18 November 2021 New digital atlas shows ecosystems in Germany
...Distribution of settlement areas, farmland, forests and water bodies in Germany...
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Date: December 7, 2021 Ecosystem Accounts - National Ecosystem Classification for Germany
...Ecosystem Accounts - National Ecosystem Classification for Germany...
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Press release No. N019 of 22 March 2023 5.5 kilograms per capita: 462,500 tonnes of old clothes and second-hand textiles were exported from Germany in 2022
...In relation to the total population in Germany, this represented 5.5 kilograms of second-hand textiles which were exported per capita in 2022....
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Press release No. 261 of 4 June 2021 Waste generation remained high in Germany in 2019
...According to provisional results, the amount of waste generated in Germany was 416.5 million tonnes in 2019. To mark the World Environment Day on 5 June 2021, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the quantity of waste remained at nearly the same level as in the preceding year, with a slight decrease of 0.2%. ...
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Press release No. N 012 of 1 March 2023 In 2022, 87% of the imported photovoltaic power stations came from China
...From Germany's perspective, China is by far the most important country of origin of photovoltaic power stations. Roughly 87% of the photovoltaic power stations imported to Germany in 2022 came from the People's Republic. ...
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Press release No. 016 of 11 January 2023 Almost one third of installations for handling water-hazardous substances inspected in 2021 had defects
...In 2021, expert organisations inspected 232,437 installations for handling water-hazardous substances in the whole of Germany and found technical or regulatory defects with just under a third (30.6%) of the installations. This proportion remained nearly unchanged compared with the previous year (2020: 30.9%) The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that slight defects were found with 49,980 installations (21.5%), 21,052 installations had significant defects (9.1%) and 70 installations (0.03%) even dangerous defects....
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Press release No. 524 of 9 December 2022 Potential greenhouse effect of fluorinated greenhouse gases used in 2021 down 9% on 2020
...The potential greenhouse effect of the fluorinated greenhouse gases used in Germany in 2021 (FCs, HFCs, blends) fell by 9% on 2020. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the volume of fluorinated greenhouse gases used declined from 7.7 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents in 2020 to 7 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents in 2021....
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Press release No. 317 of 5 July 2021 Reporting over a five-year period: what about sustainability in Germany?
...At this year’s High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) to take place from 6 to 15 July, the Federal Government will for the second time report on Germany’s progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) has provided the relevant data for five years now. The HLPF is the main United Nations platform on sustainable development and it plays a central role in the review of the 2030 Agenda at the global level....
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Press release No. 542 of 16 December 2022 Household consumption of housing energy down 0.9% in 2020
...Households in Germany consumed less housing energy in the first Covid-19 year of 2020 than in 2019 although people spent more time at home on account of the pandemic. The temperature adjusted consumption of housing energy amounted to a total of 715 billion kilowatt-hours in 2020, according to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). ...
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Press release No. 546 of 19 December 2022 New record volume of household waste generated in 2021
...The volume of waste produced by households in Germany continued to rise in 2021. 483 kilograms of household waste per capita were collected according to provisional data from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This was an increase by 6 kilograms compared with the first Covid year of 2020, when the per capita waste production had risen by 19 kilograms from 2019 (2019: 457 kilograms). ...
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Press release No. 269 of 28 June 2022 Environmental protection as an economic factor: turnover up 7.2% in 2020
...Number of green jobs in Germany increasing by 2.0% on 2019...