External datasets catalogue

PEFC Global Statistics: SFM and CoC Certificationurope — 27 Oct 2015

The presentation offers detailed information about types and distribution of PEFC certificates as well as PEFC endorsed national forest certification systems and PEFC members. Published on Jun 12, 2013.

Global FSC and PEFC certificates: type and distribution by countries in Europe — 27 Oct 2015

FSC certification ensures that products come from well managed forests that provide environmental, social and economic benefits. Forest owners and managers may want to become FSC certified to demonstrate that they are managing their forests responsibly. Along the supply chain, FSC certification can provide benefits such as access to new markets.

Naturalness of Forest (Indicator 4.3) — 27 Oct 2015

UNECE's major aim is to promote pan-European economic integration. Over 70 international professional organizations and other non-governmental organizations take part in UNECE activities.

Forestry Production and Trade — 27 Oct 2015

Food and agriculture organization of the united nations (FAO). Statistics Division. Forestry Production and Trade. Publication year 2015.

International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change — 26 Oct 2015

The Inclusive Wealth Report 2014 is a joint initiative of the UN University – International Human Dimensions Programme (UNU-IHDP) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with the UNESCOMahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (UNESCO-MGIEP), ASCENT Africa Sustainability Centre, the Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT), Science to Action (S2A), the Ministry of Environment – Government of Japan, the UN University – Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), and endorsed by the Science and Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability to measuring progress toward sustainability.

Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, including Aichi Biodiversity Targets — 23 Oct 2015

In decision X/2, the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, held from 18 to 29 October 2010, in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, adopted a revised and updated Strategic Plan for Biodiversity, including the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, for the 2011-2020 period. This plan provides an overarching framework on biodiversity, not only for the biodiversity-related conventions, but for the entire United Nations system and all other partners engaged in biodiversity management and policy development. Parties agreed to translate this overarching international framework into revised and updated national biodiversity strategies and action plans within two years. Additionally, in decision X/10, the Conference of the Parties decided that the fifth national reports, due by 31 March 2014, should focus on the implementation of the 2011-2020 Strategic Plan and progress achieved towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets.

Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, including Aichi Biodiversity Targets — 23 Oct 2015

In decision X/2, the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, held from 18 to 29 October 2010, in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, adopted a revised and updated Strategic Plan for Biodiversity, including the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, for the 2011-2020 period. This plan provides an overarching framework on biodiversity, not only for the biodiversity-related conventions, but for the entire United Nations system and all other partners engaged in biodiversity management and policy development. Parties agreed to translate this overarching international framework into revised and updated national biodiversity strategies and action plans within two years. Additionally, in decision X/10, the Conference of the Parties decided that the fifth national reports, due by 31 March 2014, should focus on the implementation of the 2011-2020 Strategic Plan and progress achieved towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets.

Irrigation dataset from FAO (2005 8000m) — 16 Sep 2015

ESPON CLIMATE - Climate Change and Territorial Effects on Regions and Local Economies in Europe project — 16 Sep 2015

Assessing the risk of farmland abandonment in the EU — 16 Sep 2015

European air quality maps European air quality maps of ozone and PM10 for 2011 and their uncertainty analysis ETC/A Technical Paper 2013/13 — 19 Aug 2015

This paper provides the annual update of the European air quality concentrations of selected pollutants (PM10 and ozone), their exceedance probability and population exposure estimates for the year 2011. The analysis is based on interpolation of annual statistics of the 2011 observational data reported by EEA Member countries in 2011 and stored in AirBase. The paper presents the mapping results and includes an uncertainty analysis of the interpolated maps, building upon the latest methodological developments.

Ozone-depleting substances 2013 — 05 Aug 2015

The Ozone Database of the European Environmental Agency (the data reported to the EEA is strictly confidential and the Ozone Database is not available to the public). Aggregated data reported by companies on the import, export, production, destruction and feedstock and process agent use of ozone-depleting substances in the European Union. All information provided to the European Commission and the EEA on transactions of ozone-depleting substances in the EU is treated as strictly confidential. The European Commission and the EEA have established procedures to ensure that all of the data relating to individual companies will be kept strictly confidential. No company-specific information is disclosed to the public; all company data are aggregated before publication. These procedures limit the release of data that might significantly rely on reports from less than three company groups. To this end, company groups that contribute to less than 5 % do not count toward the '3-company-rule'. Concerns regarding confidentiality can be addressed to the European Commission or to the entity designated by the European Commission.

Complete energy balances - annual data (nrg_110a) — 31 Jul 2015

Energy statistics - supply, transformation and consumption

National adaptation policy processes in European countries (2014) — 23 Jul 2015

Energy balances — 23 Jul 2015

Energy balance sheets, statistical books

Energy Efficiency Directive — 01 Jul 2015

Member states progress towards indicative national energy efficiency targets for 2020 and 2030

Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change — 30 Jun 2015

IPCC Working Group III Contribution to AR5 - Concluding four years of intense scientific collaboration by hundreds of authors from around the world, this report responds to the request of the world's governments for a comprehensive, objective and policy neutral assessment of the current scientific knowledge on mitigating climate change.

Global Emissions EDGAR v4.2 FT2012 (November 2014) — 30 Jun 2015

In EDGAR v4.2 FT2012 emissions are calculated for the greenhouse gases CO2, CH4 and N2O from 1970 to 2012 based on the energy balance statistics of IEA (2013). In the table underneath the emission timeseries per substance and per country can be downloaded. For a description of the data we refer to UNEP emissions gap report (2014): Chapter 2.

Soil facts — 30 Jun 2015

Healthy soils play an important role in climate change mitigation by storing carbon (carbon sequestration) and decreasing global greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.

Organic agriculture and climate change — 30 Jun 2015

Global climate change is considered one of the most urgent environmental problems. The main negative impact on climate change is the emission of greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O), which is directly or indirectly due to the burning of non-renewable resources (carbon bound in mineral oil or coal). Tropical rainforests hold the biggest living biomass on very delicate soils that may lose their fertility completely when clear cutting is performed as in recent decades.