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Green budgets: the potential for economic instruments to power environmental change: The budget is one area where governments can influence our interaction with the environment – encouraging beneficial behaviour, and discouraging environmental destruction. As a conference on environmental fiscal reform opens at the European Environment Agency (EEA), we consider the potential for using financial carrots and sticks to improve the environment.
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Has policy improved Europe's air quality?: In recent decades, the EU has introduced a range of policies to improve air quality by controlling pollutant emissions. A new report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) evaluates three key instruments and finds that they have significantly improved Europe's air quality and reduced pollution-induced health effects. There is scope for even more progress, however, if countries achieve all their binding commitments to reduce emissions.
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Impact of selected policy measures on Europe's air quality: The main objective of the present study is to analyse and quantify the effects that certain past policy measures in the road transport and industrial combustion facilities have had on the magnitude of air pollutant emissions and subsequent air quality in Europe. The policies selected are the Euro emission standards for road vehicles and the EU directives on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) and large combustion plants (LCP).
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International spread of environmental policies: The figure compares the proliferation of twenty-three environmental policy innovations between 1945 and 2005 across 43 OECD and Central Eastern European Countries. The colours represent adoption levels from dark blue (less than 4 countries adopting the policy) to brown (more than 40 countries adopting it). The policies are ranked by adoption rate between start year and 2005 (fastest spreading policies first).
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Land use - National Responses (Belgium): Policies and measures in place or planned in the Flemish Region to better manage land use
Located in The European environment – state and outlook 2010 › … › Belgium › Land use - National Responses (Belgium)
Land use - National Responses (Belgium): Policies and measures in place or planned in the Walloon Region to better manage land use
Located in The European environment – state and outlook 2010 › … › Belgium › Land use - National Responses (Belgium)
Land use - National Responses (Belgium): Policies and measures in place or planned in the Brussels-Capital Region to better manage land use
Located in The European environment – state and outlook 2010 › … › Belgium › Land use - National Responses (Belgium)
Land use - National Responses (Germany): Located in The European environment – state and outlook 2010 › Country assessments › Germany
Material resources and waste — key message 6: Policy has only recently begun to address the challenges of the growing use of resources. Most actions taken to date do not comprehensively address the upstream causes of growth, focusing instead on the downstream consequences. As yet, there are no broadly accepted and robust methods for measuring the impacts of resource use, and few concrete targets or indicators exist. Policies aimed at the prevention of waste remain weak.
Located in The European environment – state and outlook 2010 › … › Material resources and waste — SOER 2010 thematic assessment › Key messages
National and regional story (Germany) - The way toward unifying environmental protection: SOER National and regional story from Germany
Located in The European environment – state and outlook 2010 › Country assessments › Germany