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In 2021, Germany was the world's largest importer of natural gas, which covered more than a quarter of primary energy consumption in Germany. Around 95% of Germany's natural gas was imported, of which around half is re-exported. 55% of gas imports came from Russia, 30% from Norway and 13% from the Netherlands.
The Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources ( Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, or BGR) is a German agency within the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. It acts as a central geoscience consulting institution for the German federal government. [1] The headquarters of the agency is located in Hanover ...
It lies mostly between latitudes 47° and 55° N (the tip of Sylt is just north of 55°), and longitudes 5° and 16° E. The territory covers 357,021 km 2 (137,847 sq mi), consisting of 349,223 km 2 (134,836 sq mi) of land and 7,798 km 2 (3,011 sq mi) of water. It is the seventh largest country by area in Europe and the 63rd largest in the world.
Germany has been called "the world's first major renewable energy economy". [3] [4] The share of renewable electricity rose from just 3.4% of gross electricity consumption in 1990, provided by conventional hydro, to exceed 10% by 2005 thanks to additional biomass and wind, and reaching 42.1% of consumption in 2019.
Significant natural resources include iron ore, coal, potash, timber, lignite, uranium, copper, natural gas, salt, and nickel. Climate. Most of Germany has a temperate climate, ranging from oceanic in the north and west to continental in the east and southeast. Winters range from the cold in the Southern Alps to cool and are generally overcast ...
www .bfn .de. The German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( German: Bundesamt für Naturschutz, BfN) is the German government's scientific authority with responsibility for national and international nature conservation. BfN is one of the government's departmental research agencies and reports to the German Environment Ministry (BMU).
1595534. Bavarian Forest National Park. 1864214. Berchtesgaden National Park. 4292200. Black Forest National Park. 3412590. Germany also has 14 Biosphere Reserves, as well as 98 nature parks. Including the national protected areas, about 25% of Germany's area is national parks or nature parks.
Germany's major natural regions - Level 1: dark red, 2: orange, and 3: violet; major landscape unit groups: thin violet - based on the BfL classification. This division of Germany into major natural regions takes account primarily of geomorphological, geological, hydrological, and pedological criteria in order to divide the country into large, physical units with a common geographical basis.