German environmental awareness is gradually through the formation of painful lessons. Fifties and sixties of last century, the German postwar rush to change the backward development of economy, neglect of environmerefore, people pay more attention to quality of life, rather than the standard of living.
1. Germany established a sound environmental management and supervision, 70 years from the 20th century German government began to proceed with environmental legislation, and gradually formed a set of environmental protection system, the environmental protection laws and regulations to further expand the economy and all areas of life.
3. Carbon emissions trading.Carbon emissions in the choice of participating enterprises, the German machinery and equipment to all domestic investigations of sulfur dioxide emissions, according to the "Kyoto Protocol" and related laws strict requirements, each firm emissions targets in the report are in accordance with the technical standards for the machines to verify their equipment, carbon dioxide emissions and so on.
These are the German people of low carbon living. Overall, the German environmental awareness in many countries are strong over the world people
In Germany, people's attitude towards waste separation is also serious and rigorous, it is very admirable.They will be different colors of glass bottles into the appropriate three different colors of glass recycling bins, while the plastic cap screwed down into the collection of plastic trash.
After long efforts, the German environmental protection achieved great results
In 2000, Germany received 50% of waste reused, wrapping paper and waste glass recovery rate of 80%, 60% recovery rate of waste paper, construction waste recycling rate of 90% slag generated in the metallurgical industry and more than 70% or 95% of dust and sludge is recycled. According to the "Kyoto Protocol" provides that the recent reduction targets in Germany in 2005 to 2007 14.85 million tons per year of 4.95 billion tons and 300 tons of additional targets each year specifically for the new companies to participate in emissions.
4.Waste recycling and useing.The Government requires all enterprises and institutions must have separate installations of garbage, waste paper, glass, plastic and metal and other garbage to be separated in order to ensure maximum reuse. Germany also according to different situations in various industries to develop the industry to promote recycling of waste regulations
2.Countries use various means to promote environmental awareness, increasing public awareness of environmental protection.Germany has "Federal Agency for Nature Conservation Society," "Youth Environment Federation" and more than 800 national and local environmental organizations or environmental information center. And Germany's environmental education from early childhood to begin.
Germany is in the world to the environmental pollution government most and early one of result remarkable countries.
To the early 70s of last century, Germany had a series of environmental disasters, a substantial increase in emissions of carbon dioxide, water creatures in a sharp decrease in the soil around garbage dumps