The Federal Environment Ministry provides funds from the Environmental Innovation Programme to promote large-scale projects within Germany which for the first time demonstrate ways of preventing or reducing environmental pollution by means of innovative technological processes or novel process combinations, and also ways of producing and using environmentally sound products. The funded projects represent an advanced state of technology and can be transferred to similar systems operated by other users. As a rule, such projects are funded by subsidising the interest on a loan from the KfW banking group. The various Federal Environment Agency (UBA) departments assess and support the projects from a technical point of view.

The Federal Environment Agency (FEA) is not only Germany's central environmental office but also a place where you are welcome with virtually any question about environmental protection.

The German Federal Foundation for the Environment (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt) is one of the largest foundations in Europe. It promotes exemplary projects from the area of environmental technology, environmental research and nature conversation, environmental communication, as well as environmental and cultural assets. more...

Until 1986 environmental matters were dealt with by three different ministries within the Federal Government: the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Health. On 6 June 1986 the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety was established. Since then it has been responsible within the Federal Government for (lead-managing) national environmental policy. more...

The quality of our environment but also the performance of our economy are inseparably linked with environmental pollution and stressed and the consumption of natural resources.