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Environmental and climate protection measures must be based on a human rights-based approach, says the recent policy brief by UN-Water.
The opportunities for CDR applications in wastewater and waste treatment are not sufficiently utilized

Wastewater treatment plants have a great potential for implementing CDR technologies to produce negative CO2 emissions.
Not regulating the production and use of PFAS in the EU in future is the most expensive of all the options for dealing with PFAS.
The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) has developed a new two-step process for eliminating short-chain PFAS from water.
Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich are using waste materials from the sugar industry to produce liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC).

The EASY project aims to further develop a process for the electrochemical synthesis of ammonia on an industrial scale.

In the EU project UNICO2RN researchers from seven countries aim to combine CO₂ capture from biological sources with bioconversion of this gas into proteins and plastics.
In October 2025, the Federal government published their Action Plan „Deutschland auf dem Weg zum Fusionskraftwerk" (Germany on the way to the fusion power plant).

Despite decades of efforts to reduce nutrient pollution in the North Sea, concentrations are still too high.






