Table of Contents

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Lead Editors: Michael Kotzulla, Kevin Hausmann

Illustrations: Kristina Juhrich, Michael Kotzulla

Chapter Contact persons
Executive Summary Tobias Vosen
1 - Introduction Christian Boettcher, Patrick Gniffke, Michael Kotzulla
1.1 - Inventory Background Tobias Vosen
1.2 - Institutional arragements Dirk Günther, Tobias Vosen
1.3 - Inventory Preparation Process Kevin Hausmann
1.4 - Methods and Data Sources Christian Boettcher, Michael Kotzulla
1.5 - Key source analysis Christian Mielke
1.6 - QA/QC and Verification Methods Stephan Schiller
1.7 - General Uncertainty Evaluation Kevin Hausmann
1.8 - Assessment of completeness Tobias Vosen
2 - Explanation of Key Emission Trends Tobias Vosen, Michael Kotzulla
3 - Energy Christian Boettcher, Kristina Juhrich, Michael Kotzulla, Sebastian Plickert (1.A.1.c)
- Stationary Fuel Combustion Özge Can, Kristina Juhrich, Sebastian Plickert
- Mobile Fuel Combustion Michael Kotzulla
- Fugitive Emissions from Fuels Christian Boettcher
4 - Industrial Processes and Product Use Robert Kludt, Sebastian Plickert, Christian Lehmann, Almut Reichart, Jens Reichel
- Mineral Industry (2.A) Robert Kludt
- Chemical Industry (2.B) Jiexia Zheng, Christian Boettcher, Robert Kludt
- Metal Production (2.C) Sebastian Plickert, Christian Lehmann, Jens Reichel
- Other Solvent and Product Use (2.D) Robert Kludt, Jens Reichel
- Other Product Use (2.G) Jens Reichel, Michael Kotzulla
- Other (Pulp & Paper, Food) (2.H) Almut Reichart (2.H.1), Uli Gromke (2.H.2)
- Wood Processing (2.I) Robert Kludt
- Production of POPs (2.J) Ulrike Döring
- Consumption of POPs and Heavy Metals (2.K) Ulrike Döring
- Other Production: Bulk products (2.L) Michael Kotzulla
5 - Agriculture Cora Vos & Claus Roesemann (Thuenen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture)1), Ulrike Döring
6 - Waste Robert Kludt, Stephan Schiller
- Solid Waste Disposal on Land (5.A) Kathrin Brand, Stephan Schiller
- Composting & Anaerobic digestion (5.B) Tim Hermann, Stephan Schiller
- Open Burning of Waste (5.C.2) Robert Kludt
- Domestic Wastewater Handling (5.D.1) Kai Kessler, Stephan Schiller
- Industrial Wastewater Handling (5.D.2) Ulrich Gromke, Stephan Schiller
- Mechanical-biological Treatment of Waste (5.E.1) Kathrin Brand, Stephan Schiller
- Car Fires (5.E.2) Robert Kludt
7 - Other (anthropogenic) emission sources
- Emissions from human re- and transpiration (6.A.1) and pets (6.A.2) Ulrike Döring, Jana Niebuhr
8 - Natural emission sources
- Forest Fires (11.B) Katja Oehmichen & Wolfgang Stuemer (Thuenen Institute of Forest Ecosystems)2)
- Other Natural Sources (11.C) Jana Niebuhr, Kevin Hausmann
9.1 - Recalculations Michael Kotzulla
9.2 - Improvements Tobias Vosen, Michael Kotzulla
10 - Projections Andreas Eisold, Kevin Hausmann
11.1 - Point Sources & 11.2 - Gridded Data Kevin Hausmann, Stefan Feigenspan, Theo Wernicke
12 - Adjustments Tobias Vosen (co-ordinator)
Appendices Michael Kotzulla, Christian Mielke

All authors from the Umweltbundesamt can be contacted by email: 'givenname.familyname(at)uba.de'.


1) Thuenen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture (TI AK): https://www.thuenen.de/en/institutes/climate-smart-agriculture
2) Thuenen Institute of Forest Ecosystems (TI WO: https://www.thuenen.de/en/institutes/forest-ecosystems