Country info:Germany - organisations

List of organisations for Germany

Organisation	Web site	Notes
The Federal Environment Ministry	http://www.bmu.de/en/	The Federal Environment Ministry is responsible for the environmental policy of the German government. The aim of policy is to create or maintain a healthy living environment. The ministry is primarily concerned with climate policy, conserving the diversity of fauna and flora, efficient use of resources and energy, as well as protecting people’s health from environmental pressures. Water protection policies in Germany focus primarily on maintaining or re-establishing the ecological balance of water bodies, on guaranteeing drinking and process water supplies and on providing long-term safeguards for all other water uses benefiting the general public. Current water protection policies are in particular aimed at preventing ground and surface water pollution with hazardous substances.
The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation	http://www.bfn.de/index+M52087573ab0.html	The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation is the German government’s scientific authority with responsibility for national and international nature conservation. The Agency plays a key part in incorporating scientific knowledge into policy decisions and applying that knowledge in practice. It provides the German Environment Ministry with professional and scientific assistance in all nature conservation and landscape management issues and in international cooperation activities.