Handbuch Umweltkosten Methodenkonvention 4.0

Summary

The document addresses the challenge of systematically assessing and valuing the external costs of environmental damage, such as greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, noise, and agricultural impacts, to support informed policy and economic decisions. The German Environment Agency (UBA) has developed and updated a methodological convention (Methodenkonvention 4.0), providing detailed approaches and cost rates for monetizing environmental impacts across various sectors like energy, transport, and agriculture. This comprehensive handbook, published in December 2025, establishes standard values (e.g., €2025/t CO2eq, per vehicle-kilometer, per kWh) for a wide range of environmental externalities.

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