http://www.eea.europa.eu Syndication is Not Allowed Syndication is not Allowed Syndication is not Allowed http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eea_report_2009_9?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This report presents an assessment of the current and projected progress of EU Member States, EU candidate countries and other EEA member countries towards their respective targets under the Kyoto Protocol and of progress towards the EU target for 2020. This is based on their past greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2007, and the projected greenhouse gas emissions of these countries during the Kyoto commitment period 2008-2012 and for 2020, derived from data and related information they provided before 1 June 2009. No publisher EEA COP15 2009-11-12 13:15:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/about-us/documents/administrativedocuments/eea-accounts-for-the-year-2008?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2009-10-22 12:31:14Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/nec-directive-status-report-2008?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The National Emission Ceilings Directive (NECD) sets pollutant-specific emission ceilings for each Member State of the European Union to be met by 2010. It also lays down the requirements for the Member States to compile and report information on past emissions, future emission projections and national actions being taken to control emissions of air pollutants. As part of these requirements, Member States shall prepare and annually update national emission inventories and emission projections for 2010 in respect of four important air pollutants: sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC), and ammonia (NH3). This report presents the emissions and projections data reported by Member States in the 2008 reporting round under the NECD. A number of Member States have indicated they will not achieve at least one of their 2010 emission ceilings. At the aggregated European Community level, the 'with measures' projections reported by Member States imply that for some pollutants the aggregated EU-27 emission ceilings defined in Annex I and II of the NECD will also be exceeded. Only for SO2 and NH3 is the EU-27 likely to meet both the aggregated ceilings set in the NECD Annex I and II. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) COP15 2009-09-30 17:41:38Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/alps-climate-change-and-adaptation-2009?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic Spanning the centre of continental Europe, the Alps play a crucial role in accumulating and supplying water to the continent. As such, they deliver vital ecosystem services both within and beyond the region, underpinning social and economic wellbeing in vast lowland areas. Troublingly, the alpine climate has changed significantly during the past century, with temperatures increasing more than twice the global average. Drawing on the most recent knowledge of climate change impacts in the Alps and experiences across the region, this report analyses the risks that climate change presents to the region's water supply and quality, identifying needs, constraints, opportunities, policy levers and options for adaptation. It extracts policy guidance on adaptation practice and aims to assist regional and local stakeholders in developing robust adaptation strategies. No publisher EEA COP15 2009-09-09 15:50:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/territorial-cohesion-2009?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This study evaluate ex-post the effectiveness and, where possible, the effects of implementing the Structural and Cohesion Funds in the environment within three pilot countries namely Italy, Spain and Austria. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2009-09-03 17:50:46Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/a-global-setting-for-european-environmental-monitoring-84-measuring-what-we-must-manage?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The European Environment Agency held a two and a half day senior-level meeting in Copenhagen (13–15 May 2009) on 'A global setting for European environmental monitoring — measuring what we must manage'. The aim was to explore concrete ideas for building a sustainable and focused observing capacity that would best satisfy ongoing European needs, and provide inputs from Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) and other programmes to the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2009-09-01 13:48:33Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/lrtap-emission-inventory-report-1990-2007?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This report accompanies the annual emission inventory submission of the European Community to the UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution. The report presents an overview of air pollutant emission data reported by the EU-27 Member States between the years 1990 to 2007. No publisher jaeglmar 2009-08-21 14:15:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eea-strategy-2009852013?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic Informing. Interpreting. Empowering. No publisher jaeglmar 2009-08-06 11:26:27Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/about-us/documents/administrativedocuments/second-revised-budget-2009?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2009-07-22 12:13:24Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/assessment-of-ground-level-ozone-in-eea-member-countries-with-a-focus-on-long-term-trends?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic Trends in measured and modelled ground-level ozone concentrations in Europe. Influence of anthropogenic and natural emissions, meteorology, inter-continental transport of ozone precursor gases and link to climate change. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2009-07-20 09:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/progress-towards-the-european-2010-biodiversity-target-indicator-fact-sheets?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This technical report contains individual assessments for each of the 26 SEBI 2010 indicators. These detailed assessments underpin the analysis, synthesis and policy implications contained in EEA Report 04/2009, entitled 'Progress towards the European 2010 biodiversity target' No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2009-07-07 10:27:28Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eionet-priority-data-flows-may-2008-april-2009?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic Eionet data flow progress report. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2009-06-25 16:17:29Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/emep-eea-emission-inventory-guidebook-2009?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The EMEP/EEA air pollutant emission inventory guidebook (formerly referred to as the EMEP CORINAIR Guidebook) provides guidance on estimating emissions from both anthropogenic and natural emission sources. It is designed to facilitate reporting of emission inventories by countries to the UNECE LRTAP Convention and the EU NEC Directive. The Guidebook is prepared by the UNECE/EMEP Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections (TFEIP) and published by the European Environment Agency. The present 2009 version has been substantially updated compared with earlier editions. There is now greater methodological consistency throughout, and a more complete coverage of emission sources and emission factors is provided, together with updated technology descriptions. New general guidance chapters have also been prepared which present the underlying principles of emission inventory preparation. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2009-06-19 12:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/annual-report-2008?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic Overview/summary of EEA activities in 2008 No publisher Brendan Killeen 2009-06-15 18:12:44Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/quality-of-bathing-water-2008-bathing-season?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic Annual summary report of bathing water quality in EU Member States. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2009-06-11 12:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/diverting-waste-from-landfill-effectiveness-of-waste-management-policies-in-the-european-union?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic With landfill at the bottom of the European waste hierarchy, policies to divert waste from landfill play a very important role within European and national waste policies. This report analyses the effectiveness of implemented policies on the diversion of total municipal waste and biodegradable municipal waste from landfill in the context of the 1999 EU Landfill Directive and other relevant directives. The study is based on an in-depth evaluation of policies in five countries and one region of the EU, combined with an analysis of drivers of the generation, landfilling and incineration of municipal waste for 25 EU Member States. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. 2009-06-10 16:52:25Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/europes-onshore-and-offshore-wind-energy-potential?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This report provides a Europe-wide resource assessment of onshore and offshore wind potential in a geographically explicit manner. In addition to calculating raw wind resource potential, this study also introduces and quantitatively analyses the environmental and social constraints on wind sector development. Concerns addressed include the noise and visual impact of wind power, as well as the deaths of birds and bats that fly into rotor blades. The report also evaluates the future costs of wind energy production across Europe in order to gauge the potential output at competitive rates. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2009-06-08 11:52:24Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/european-community-greenhouse-gas-inventory-2009?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This report is the annual submission of the greenhouse gas inventory of the European Community to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. It presents greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2007 for EU-27, EU-15, individual Member States and economic sector. No publisher EEA/Ricardo Fernandez COP15 2009-05-29 12:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/quality-of-life-in-Europes-cities-and-towns?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This report aims to raise awareness of the various perspectives on, and perceptions of, quality of life with a specific focus on cities and towns. It stresses the challenges ahead to ensure quality of life in the long run for all social groups, and the crucial importance of sustainability and the environment as our life supporting system. The report sheds light on certain aspects of the current quality of life discussions in order to illustrate how different conceptions of quality of life influence the quality of life of others, and provides ideas for ways to meet the challenges that lie ahead. It aims to support individuals and politicians to discover a balanced concept for quality of life compatible with sustainable development. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2009-05-28 12:41:54Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/progress-towards-the-european-2010-biodiversity-target?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic As the first indicator-based assessment of progress towards the European target of halting biodiversity loss by 2010, this report serves two purposes. First, it takes stock of the state of biodiversity and its loss in Europe based on the most recent data available. Second, it functions as a bridge to a comprehensive assessment of the 2010 target to be done in 2010. As such, the indicators in this report do not only show what is currently known. They also show where information is missing and what more needs to be measured and examined to enable a comprehensive assessment in 2010. No publisher Adobe InDesign CS3 (5.0) biodiversity2010 targetnatureprotected areasspeciesnaturesectoral integration 2009-05-22 08:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/looking-back-on-looking-forward-a-review-of-evaluative-scenario-literature?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic Faced with risk and uncertainty, environmental policy-makers are increasingly using scenario planning to guide decision‑making. The vibrancy of the field is evident in the numerous case studies conducted using diverse methodologies. Yet even well‑crafted scenarios can fail to have their intended policy impact if they present irrelevant information, lack support from relevant actors, are poorly embedded into relevant organisations or ignore key institutional context conditions. Unfortunately, the shortage of research on scenario planning and its influence means that there is limited guidance on how to optimise scenarios, in terms of both outputs and uptake by policy-makers. This technical report addresses this lack of information, presenting a review of relevant academic and non‑academic literature on the issue. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2009-04-29 16:14:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/about-us/documents/administrativedocuments/first-revised-budget-2009?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2009-04-23 14:48:56Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/transport-at-a-crossroads?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The TERM 2008 report examines performance of the transport sector vis-a-vis environmental performance and concludes that there are plenty of options for synergies between different policy initiatives but also a risk of measures counteracting each other. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) policy integrationnoiseclimate changetransport demandbiofulesenvironmentClimate changeTransport 2009-03-31 11:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/spatial-assessment-of-pm10-and-ozone-concentrations-in-europe-2005-1?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic Air quality, health and vegetation impacts of PM10 and ozone in Europe, year 2005. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) Air qualityhealth and vegatation inpacts of PM10 and ozone in Europeyear 2005. 2009-03-24 14:34:42Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/air-pollution-by-ozone-across-europe-during-summer-2008-1?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic According to several indicators, ozone levels during the summer of 2008 were the lowest since 1997. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2009-03-24 14:25:41Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/water-resources-across-europe?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic Despite the vast amount of water on the planet, decades of unsustainable management mean that water shortages have reached crisis point in many regions. Globally, humans appropriate more than 50 % of all renewable and accessible freshwater, while billions still lack the most basic water services (Pacific, 2009). Until now, most Europeans have been insulated from the social, economic and environmental impacts of severe water shortages. But as demand increases and the global climate changes, is Europe becoming more susceptible? No publisher EEA/Robert Collins This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Water 2009-03-17 09:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/waste-without-borders-in-the-eu-transboundary-shipments-of-waste?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This report presents data on waste shipments within Europe and out of Europe (mainly EU countries are covered) for both so called notified waste (mostly hazardous and problematic waste) as well as for non-hazardous waste. It presents drivers for shipments but also gaps that still exist in our knowledge as regards some waste streams (such as e-waste) or what influnce shipments have on the environment. It also presents some illegal shipments issues. A main conclusion is that more detailed reporting on waste shipments to the EU Commission would enable us to obtain a better understanding of shipments and their nature. No publisher EEA/Krzysztof Wojcik 2009-03-04 11:55:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/about-us/documents/administrativedocuments/budget-of-the-european-environment-agency-for-the-financial-year-2009?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) Budget 2009-02-17 01:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/about-us/documents/administrativedocuments/eea-annual-management-plan-2009?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) management plan 2009-02-04 12:29:33Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eea-strategy-2009852013-multi-annual-work-programme?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic No publisher jaeglmar 2009-02-04 01:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/briefing_2008_3?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic Global climate change is a reality. In Europe the most vulnerable regions are the Arctic, mountain areas, coastal zones and the Mediterranean. Key economic sectors, which will need to adapt include energy supply, health, water management, agriculture, forestry, tourism and transport. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2009-01-28 01:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/signals-2009?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic Signals is published by the European Environment Agency (EEA) at the start of each year and provides snapshot stories on issues of interest both to the environmental policy debate and the wider public for the upcoming year. No publisher voineali 2009-01-09 10:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2008_13?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The European Union is running the largest multi-country, multi-sector greenhouse gas emission trading scheme (ETS) world-wide. The first trading period (2005-2007) terminated last year. This report presents the experiences from Member States on the implementation of the trading system. The report for reporting year 2008 covers both specific information on the trading year 2007 as well as some findings from the whole first trading period. The report also contains a short discussion around the risk of carbon leakage In many ways, the first trading period from 1 January 2005 until 31 December 2007 can be seen as an explorative phase, taking into account that the EU ETS is the first multinational emissions trading scheme of this magnitude Over the course of the three-year period, increasing knowledge was collected on key figures and experience gained in implementing the Emissions Trading Scheme. A number of lessons were learned that have reshaped the design and implementation of the system and will continue to do so. The report reveals that there is still room for further alignments, which to a certain degree already have been addressed. From the trading year 2008 a new version of guidelines on monitoring and reporting is applied. Some other issues are addressed in the proposed amendment of the Trading Directive that is under discussion in the Council and the European parliament. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) multinational emissions trading schemethe risk of carbon leakageTrading Directivethe trading systemguidelines on monitoring and reportingmulti-sector greenhouse gas emission trading scheme (ETS) 2009-01-05 12:25:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2008_12?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This report is presenting an analysis of three examples of relations between societal activities and transport demand … effects of food production and consumption on shopping journeys and freight traffic; increasing use of air travel for business and leisure; effects of education based travel on transport demand. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) Transport demandCarbon footprintEducation based travelFood production and consumptionAir travel for budiness and leisure 2008-12-19 01:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2008_11?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This technical report provides a non-exhaustive overview of modelling tools currently available to simulate future environmental change at a European scale. Modelling tools have become an important cornerstone of environmental assessments, and play an important role in providing the data and indicators needed to describe the state of, trends in and prospects of the environment. The report presents a general characterisation of environmental models based on the themes covered, the geographical coverage and the analytical structure of the respective models. A pool of some 80 models is introduced, many of which have been used by the European Environment Agency in its recent environmental assessments and reports, a limited number of which are described in more detail. This review identifies gaps in the availability, accessibility and applicability of current modelling tools, and stresses the need to further stimulate the development and application of environmental forecasting techniques. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2008-12-15 01:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2008_9?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The National Emission Ceilings Directive (NECD) sets pollutant-specific emission ceilings for each country to be met by 2010. It also lays down the requirements for the Member States of the European Union to compile and report their national inventories, projections and programmes. As part of these requirements, Member States shall prepare and annually update national emission inventories and emission projections for 2010 in respect of four important air pollutants: sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC), and ammonia (NH3). This report presents the emissions and projections data reported by Member States in the 2007 reporting round under the NECD. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2008-12-01 10:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eea_report_2008_6?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This report assesses the key drivers, environmental pressures and some impacts from the production and consumption of energy, taking into account the main objectives of the European policy on energy and environment including: security of supply, competitiveness, increased energy efficiency and renewable energy, and environmental sustainability. The report addresses six main policy questions and presents trends existing within the EU compared to other countries. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2008-11-20 13:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2008_10?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This report assesses the environmental impacts of various ways of converting the technical bioenergy potential into electricity, heat and biofuels. It is based on 2006 EEA report "How much bioenergy can Europe produce without harmig the environment". No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2008-11-12 01:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eea_report_2008_5?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This report presents an assessment of the current and projected progress of EU Member States, EU candidate countries and other EEA member countries towards their respective targets under the Kyoto Protocol and of progress towards the EU target for 2020. This is based on their past greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2006, and the projected greenhouse gas emissions of these countries during the Kyoto commitment period 2008-2012 and for 2020, derived from data and related information they provided before 1 June 2008. No publisher EEA climategreenhousegreenhouse gasesemissionskyotokyoto protocolmitigationtrendsprojections 2008-10-16 12:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2008_8?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic Work on reviewing the availability of forward-looking indicators started in 2005, with the aim of enhancing their use in European environmental assessments. This work has resulted in an overview of the availability of forward-looking information (scenarios and indicators) across all themes and with various geographical coverage. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2008-10-07 00:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eea_report_2008_4?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The report presents past and projected climate change and impacts in Europe by means of about 40 indicators and identifies sectors and regions most vulnerable with a high need for adaptation. The report covers the following indicator categories: atmosphere and climate, cryosphere, marine biodiversity and ecosystems, water quantity (including river floods and droughts), freshwater quality and biodiversity, terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity, soil, agriculture and forestry, human health. Furthermore the report shows the need for adaptation actions at EU, national and regional level and the need for enhanced monitoring, data collection and exchange and reducing uncertainties in projections. The report is a joined effort of the European Environment Agency (EEA), the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC-IES) and the World Health Organisation Europe (WHO). No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) COP15 2008-09-29 09:30:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2008_7?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The report presents an overview of air pollutant emission data reported by the EU-27 Member States between the years 1990 to 2006. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) Air pollution 2008-07-28 00:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eea_report_2008_2?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic Sand, gravel and rock, which are commonly known as aggregates, are relevant in terms of their contribution to economic progress and also the impact they have on the environment. Not only does extraction of aggregates alter the landscape they also affect groundwater reserves and the cultural assets of a region, hence an important factor to consider in EU policies. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2008-06-27 00:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eea_report_2008_3?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This EEA report points out the growing demand for forest resources, identifies major threats to the forest ecosystems across Europe and provides suggestions on how forest management could be improved to help halt loss of forest biological diversity. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) Biodiversity 2008-06-26 09:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2008_6?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This report is the annual submission of the greenhouse gas inventory of the European Community to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. It presents greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2006 for EU-27, EU-15, individual Member States and economic sectors. Between 2005 and 2006 emissions within the EU-27 fell by 0.3 %, and now stand 7.7 % below 1990 levels. Emissions in the 15 pre-2004 Member States (EU-15) decreased by 0.8% and now stand 2.7% below their levels in the base year (1990 in most cases). No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2008-06-18 12:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/corporate_document_2008_2?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This is the eleventh progress report on Eionet priority data flows to the EEA Management Board. The purpose of the priority data flows report is to show progress against agreed, stable, well-defined objectives in order to allow countries to focus their resources on putting regular reporting procedures in place No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2008-06-18 00:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/corporate_document_2008_1?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The EEA continued to deliver a major contribution to the European Community's Sixth Environment Action Programme (and its mid-term review) in 2007, at the same time as developing further its information systems and networks, providing support to the European Parliament and meetings of the Council of Ministers, and underpinning initiatives in the wider world. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2008-06-17 00:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/briefing_2008_2?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic Ecosystem and their services underpin our economic activities, quality of life and social cohesion, but environment, economy and society are unequal partners - for while there are environments without economies and societies, there are no economies and societies without environment. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2008-05-29 00:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/about-us/documents/administrativedocuments/corporate_document_2007_5?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic EEA accounts for the year 2007 No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2008-05-21 23:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2008_4?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This report presents an assessment of the theoretical potential to reduce air emissions of SO2 and NOX had best available techniques (BAT) been fully introduced in a set of electricity-generating large combustion plants (LCP) within the European Union (EU-25) in 2004. Emissions of NOX and SO2 could have been significantly reduced had BAT, as described in the LCP best available techniques reference document (LCP BREF), been implemented at these facilities. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2008-05-05 00:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/about-us/documents/administrativedocuments/corporate_document_2008_3?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic EEA Annual Management Plan 2008 No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2008-05-01 00:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2008_5?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic Ozone levels during the summer of 2007 were among the lowest in the past decade.. The number and spatial extent of exceedances was lower than in any of the last ten summers. In contrast to the summer of 2006, no exceedances of the information threshold value (180 microgram/m3, Directive 2002/3/EC) occurred in the northern part of Europe. The highest one-hour ozone concentration of 479 microgram/m3 was observed in Italy on the island of Sicily, while the second highest level of 363 microgram/m3 was observed in Romania. High hourly ozone concentrations of between 300 and 360 microgram/m3 were reported a total of six times in France, Greece, Italy and Romania. As in all previous years, the directive's long-term objective to protect human health (maximum ozone concentration of 120 microgram/m3 over 8-hours) was extensively exceeded in the EU and other European countries. The target value for human health protection was also exceeded in a significant part of Europe. Forty five percent of the total number of exceedances of the information threshold, 39 % of exceedances of the alert threshold and 12 % of exceedances of the long-term objective were observed during a single episode from 14-21 July. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2008-04-30 00:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2008_2?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic For EU to meet its intermediate and long term targets on Climate Change it is essential that the environmental performance of the transport sector notably improves. In doing so all available reasonable measures must be used, EU and country wide, as well as regionally and locally. This report presents six successful examples of measures that have been implemented locally and that could serve as masters for similar implementation elsewhere. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2008-03-19 01:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2008_3?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic According to Article 21 of the Emissions Trading Directive, Member States shall report annually to the European Commission on its application. All Member States have delivered reports for the second trading year (2006) and gaps from previous reports have been filled to a large extent. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2008-03-13 16:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eea_report_2008_1?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The TERM 2007 report examines performance of the transport sector vis-a-vis potential future targets for greenhouse gas emission reductions and concludes that technology measures are insufficient to meet likely targets. Policy-makers have to address the growth in transport demand. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2008-03-03 14:50:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2008_1?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic Summary report of the conference held on 27-29 September 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia. This report was prepared by the organisers of the conference 'Time for action — towards sustainable consumption and production in Europe'. Three sets of three top-priority recommendations towards sustainable consumption and production (SCP) in Europe were developed at the conference. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2008-02-25 19:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/briefing_2008_1?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The amount of municipal waste is expected to grow by 25 % from 2005 to 2020. Increased recovery of waste, and diverting waste away from landfill play a key role in tackling the environmental impacts of increasing waste volumes. As recycling and incineration with energy recovery are increasingly used, net greenhouse gas emissions from municipal waste management are expected to drop considerably by 2020. Limiting or avoiding growth in waste volumes would further reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the waste sector and deliver other benefits to society and the environment. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2008-01-31 11:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2007_12?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This report provides technical background for the estimation of the environmentally compatible bioenergy potential from agriculture that the EEA published in 2006. It also gives information on agri-environmental pressures that explain the environmental conditions in the EEA scenario. Finally, policy measures are discussed that can be used to promote an environmentally compatible bioenergy production. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2008-01-29 00:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2007_13?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This technical report reviews, analyses and discusses the methodological issues regarding cost of inaction and cost of adaptation to climate change modelling. We also analysed possible cost impacts of climate change in the European economic sectors. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-12-19 09:55:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2007_17?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This technical report provides guidelines for the update of Corine land cover data for the reference year 2006. A Corine land cover map for the year 2006 (CLC2006) will be produced by integrating the data of land cover changes 2000–2006 with the land cover map from the year 2000 (CLC2000). The map of changes in land cover between the years 2000 and 2006 will be based on visual image comparison using satellite data from 2006 (+/– 1 year), so called IMAGE2006. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-12-18 00:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/EMEPCORINAIR5?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This 2007 update of the third edition of the emission inventory guidebook prepared by the UNECE/EMEP Task Force on Emissions Inventories and Projections provides a comprehensive guide to state-of-the-art atmospheric emissions inventory methodology. Its intention is to support reporting under the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution and the EU National Emission Ceilings Directive. The 2007 update includes revised chapters on road transport and gasoline evaporation, together with a new foreword, introduction and glossary section. In addition, corrections have been made to emissions factors for two aircraft types (Saab 2000 and Dash-8Q400) in the spreadsheet that accompanies the aviation chapter (B851). No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-12-06 00:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2007_15?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The National Emission Ceilings Directive (NECD) sets pollutant-specific emission ceilings for each country to be met by 2010. It also lays down the requirements for the Member States of the European Union to compile and report their national inventories, projections and programmes. As part of these requirements, Member States shall prepare and annually update national emission inventories and emission projections for 2010 in respect of four important air pollutants: sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC), and ammonia (NH3). No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-12-05 13:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eea_report_2007_5?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The latest projections from pre-2004 EU Member States (EU-15) show that the EU-15 can meet, and may even overachieve, its 2008–2012 Kyoto target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 8 % below 1990 levels if Member States implement now all additional policies being planned. Based on Member States projections, existing domestic policies and measures will reduce EU-15 greenhouse gas emissions by a net effect of 4.0 % below base-year levels. When additional domestic policies and measures (i.e. those planned but not yet implemented) are taken into account, the EU-15 could reduce emissions by an additional 3.9 %. The projected use of Kyoto mechanisms by ten of the EU-15 Member States will reduce emissions by a further 2.5 %. These governments have set aside EUR 2.9 billion to pay for this. The use of carbon sinks, such as planting forests to remove CO2, will reduce emissions by an additional 0.9 %. As a result, the EU-15 could achieve an 11.4 % reduction. All new Member States with a target expect to meet their target. The EU Emissions Trading Scheme will bring significant emission reductions between 2008 and 2012. It is expected to contribute a reduction of at least 3.4 %, part of which is already reflected in some Member States projections. This would represent a further reduction of at least 1.3 % to the total of 11.4 % from base-year emissions in the EU-15. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-11-27 12:55:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eea_report_2007_2?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The report 'Air pollution in Europe 1990–2004' analyses changes in air pollutant emissions and their possible health or ecosystem impacts in Europe. The report covers the period 1990–2004. In the 32 EEA member countries measured concentrations of particulate matter and ozone in the air have not shown any improvement since 1997, despite a decrease in emissions. Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is now generally recognised to be the main threat to human health from air pollution. As sulphur emissions have fallen, ammonia emitted from agricultural activity and nitrogen oxides from combustion processes have become the predominant acidifying and eutrophying agents affecting ecosystems. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-11-13 11:50:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/brochure_2007_4?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This brochure presents the EEA's new country factsheets on waste policies and trends across the EU-25, and summarises some patterns in approaches to waste management that are highlighted by the factsheets. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-10-22 09:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2007_14?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This inventory report accompanies the annual emission inventory submission of the European Community to the UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution. The report presents an overview of air pollutant emission data reported by the EU-27 Member States between the years 1990 to 2005. Across the EU-27, the reported emissions of nitrogen oxides in 2005 have decreased by more than 34 %, and sulphur dioxide by around 70 % since 1990. Significant reductions have also occurred for other pollutants during this period. The emission reductions have taken place across many of the economic sectors reported by countries — transport, energy, agriculture and waste. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-10-19 10:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2007_11?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This report documents the achievements of the first phase (2005–2007) of the Streamlining European 2010 Biodiversity Indicators (SEBI 2010) project on the development of indicators to monitor progress towards, and help achieve the European target to halt the loss of biodiversity by 2010. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-10-12 10:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eea_report_2007_3?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This report reviews the development of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) policies and the progress in implementation in the countries of South East Europe (SEE) and Eastern Europe the Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA). The report provides detailed information and a review of SCP initiatives in key production-consumption areas — industry, food, buildings, transport, and waste. The goal of the report is to identify opportunities for and barriers to more sustainable consumption and production, and to highlight relevant experience which could be replicated throughout the region. The following countries are covered: SEE: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia; and EECCA: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. The analysis is illustrated by examples of implementation of SCP initiatives at local level drawing on 18 city studies carried out for this report. Cities have acted as potential catalysts for change as shown by a large number of local sustainability initiatives. Many SEE and EECCA countries face similar problems and there is large potential to share knowledge and experiences and work towards a common path to sustainability. This report was jointly prepared by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Environment Agency (EEA) for the Sixth Ministerial Conference 'Environment for Europe' held in Belgrade in October 2007. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-10-11 11:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/state_of_environment_report_2007_1?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The 'Environment for Europe' process now brings together 56 countries across three continents to jointly address environmental challenges. In support of this process, the European Environment Agency has prepared a series of assessments of the environment for the pan European region to provide policy relevant, up to date and reliable information on the interactions between the environment and society. This is the fourth report in the series. Where possible the report evaluates progress, primarily against the objectives of the Sixth Environment Action Programme of the European Community and the Environment Strategy for Countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia. The report has been prepared in close partnership with a range of international organisations, governmental institutions and non governmental organisations across the region. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-10-10 10:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/state_of_environment_report_2007_2?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The 'Environment for Europe' process now brings together 56 countries across three continents to jointly address environmental challenges. In support of this process, the European Environment Agency has prepared a series of assessments of the environment for the pan-European region to provide policy-relevant, up-to-date and reliable information on the interactions between the environment and society. This is the fourth report in the series. Where possible the report evaluates progress, primarily against the objectives of the Sixth Environment Action Programme of the European Community and the Environment Strategy for Countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-10-10 09:59:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eea_report_2007_4?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This report aims to contribute to the discussion about plausible future developments relevant to the wider European region and to stimulate medium to long-term thinking in policy-making circles. It does so by sketching some of the key environmental concerns for the pan-European region based on the EEA's Europe's environment — The fourth assessment, and by highlighting some of the many uncertainties the future holds. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-10-10 09:55:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/brochure_2007_2?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This flyer gives a short introduction to the Environmental technology atlas. The atlas is a web-based geographic service to assist the public in locating environmental technology information in Europe found in: 1) Knowledge centres dealing with ecoinnovation and technology research and development; 2) Manufacturing companies; and 3) Main technology installations. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-08-14 23:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2007_10?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The European Environment Agency has improved a methodology for assessing the quality of river water and to relate the assessment to evaluating the environmental effects of water-related EU environment policy (e.g. Nitrate Directive, Urban Waste Water Directive). This report offers experts both a tool to assess changes at water basins as well as an early warning system for water status change. It was tested and validated with comprehensive data provided by France, covering the period 1971–2005, prior to a large-scale application at the European level depending on data availability. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-07-22 23:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/brochure_2007_1?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic Beginning in 2003, the European Environment Agency (EEA) and its European Topic Centre on Resource and Waste Management (ETC/RWM) have undertaken a series of projects examining environmental pressures including the use of resources from consumption and production in selected European countries. This brochure presents a first glimpse into these projects. The full results of the studies will be presented in a comprehensive EEA report in the beginning of 2008. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-07-03 23:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/corporate_document_2007_3?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The purpose of the tenth progress report on Eionet priority data flow is to show progress against agreed, stable, well-defined objectives in order to allow countries to focus their resources on putting regular reporting procedures in place. Progress has been assessed in 12 priority areas. This is the same thematic scope as last year. Information on two additional data flows (Contaminated soil and Eionet-Water quantity) has again been provided but not included in the assessment of progress. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-07-03 23:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/corporate_document_2007_2?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This publication is the EEA's third environmental statement. It presents our environmental policy and describes our performance. The next statement is planned to be published in June 2008. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-07-03 23:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/corporate_document_2007_1?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The EEA continued to deliver a major contribution to the European Community's Sixth Environment Action Programme in 2006, at the same time as developing further its information systems and networks, providing support to the European Parliament and meetings of the Council of Ministers, and underpinning initiatives in the wider world. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-06-24 23:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2007_9?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This technical report presents the methodological approach and key findings of the PRELUDE project that used an innovative mix of illustration, text and models to simulate five contrasting future environmental scenarios for a Europe some 30 years from now. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-06-14 09:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2007_7?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This report is the annual submission of the greenhouse gas inventory of the European Community to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It presents greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2005 by individual Member State and by economic sector. The report shows that between 2004 and 2005 emissions in the 15 pre-2004 Member States decreased by 35.2 million tonnes or 0.8 % and total EU-27 emissions decreased by 0.7 %. EU-15 emissions in 2005 were 2 % below base year levels under the Kyoto Protocol and EU-27 emission were 7.9 % below 1990 levels. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-06-14 09:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/report_2006_4?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic EEA Annual Accounts 2006 No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-05-28 23:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2007_8?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The purpose of this feasibility study is to develop a toolbox of available methodologies and a work plan for applying relevant models to substances reported under the European Pollution Emission Register (EPER) in order to predict the composition and distribution of these chemicals in the European environment - in effect, the 'chemical density' of Europe. The study aims to identify which of the available chemical models are sufficiently validated and accepted to be used in a policy context and which models are suitable for substances listed under EPER. The focus of the study will therefore be specifically on models suitable for large industrial point source emissions, with emphasis on models suitable for manufactured chemicals and heavy metals. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-05-23 09:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2007_6?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This report presents the outline and results of a project which collected information on monitoring activities in the 32 EEA member countries. In addition, a framework is proposed on the potential structure of a multi-purpose European chemicals information system where a database on monitoring activities would constitute one element. The system could be used as a tool in support of EU chemicals and environmental legislation. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-05-07 12:41:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2007_3?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic Transport contributes to several environmental problems such as climate change, air emissions and noise and is at the same time favoured by significant subsidies. An EEA report identifies European transport subsidies worth at least EUR 270 to 290 billion a year. Road transport receives EUR 125 billion in annual subsidies, most of it as infrastructure subsidies, assuming that taxes on road transport are not regarded as contributions to finance infrastructure. Aviation, as the mode with the highest specific climate impact, gets significant subsidies in the form of preferential tax treatment, in particular exemptions from fuel tax and VAT, which add up to EUR 27 to 35 billion per year. Rail is subsidised with EUR 73 billion per year and benefits the most from other on-budget subsidies. For water-borne transport, EUR 14 to 30 billion in subsidies have been identified. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-03-19 10:30:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2007_5?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This report provides an evaluation of ground-level ozone pollution in Europe for April-September 2006 based on information submitted to the European Commission under Directive 2002/3/EC on ozone in ambient air. Since the submitted data have not yet received their final validation by Member States, the conclusions drawn in this report should be considered as preliminary. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-03-15 10:30:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2007_4?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic According to Article 21 of the Emissions Trading Directive Member States shall report annually on the application of the directive. The reporting obligation will allow the European Commission to continuously follow the implementation of the directive and provide information for the European Commission's review report under Article 30 of the directive. This is particularly important for the first set of reports. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-02-26 10:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eea_report_2007_1?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The TERM 2006 report examines the environmental performance of the transport sector and finds that it is still unsatisfactory. There is a need to intensify efforts to improve it, not least concerning the sector's contribution to climate change. The Commission's mid-term review of the 2001 Transport White Paper proposes changes that can bring both improvements and negative effects depending on how they are applied at European, national and regional level. Concerning the environment, the mid-term review changes the focus from managing transport demand to addressing negative side effects. This change in focus means that transport demand growth is no longer explicitly identified as one of the main environmental issues within the transport sector. However, as the extent of important environmental impacts such as climate change, noise and landscape fragmentation are closely linked to transport volumes, addressing them still requires the management of transport demand. The overall success of the new policy therefore still hinges on limiting (growth in) transport volumes. This is something which the White Paper failed to do. It therefore remains to be seen whether the new elements in the mid-term review concerning the use of scenarios for long-term planning and a common framework for charging can help to improve the situation. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-02-26 10:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2007_1?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This report reviews the state and application of substance flow analysis (SFA) methodology in selected European Environment Agency (EEA) member countries. The objective is to explore if and how the existing practices could serve as a methodological framework for a macro-level, Europe-wide application of the SFA methodology to gather information on chemical substances. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-02-15 10:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/briefing_2007_1?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The impact of climate change on Europe's water resources is a critical issue for people's lives and the economy. Even if emissions of greenhouse gases were stabilised today, increases in temperature and the associated impacts, including water availability and flooding, will continue for many decades to come. Countries are aware of these impacts and have started to adapt to them but there is still much to do. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-02-13 10:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2007_2?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The report reviews the challenges facing Europe to adapt to the impacts of climate change on water resources. Water is a critical sector for people's lives and the economy. Even if emissions of greenhouse gases were stabilised today, increases in temperature and the associated impacts, including those on water availability and flooding, will continue for many decades to come. Using a policy analysis at European level, and a survey, the report reviews practices in countries and concludes that countries are aware of these impacts and have started to adapt to them but there is still much to do. This material is also presented by country in an annex. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-02-13 10:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2006_10?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This EEA report constitutes the main part of the European Community's submission of its initial report to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The report establishes the assigned amount for the European Community (EU-15), and demonstrates its capacity to account for its emissions and assigned amount for the first commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol: 2008-2012. The assigned amount for EU-15 is set to 19 682 548 287 tonnes of CO2-equivalents for the 2008-2012 period. The assigned amount corresponds to the EU-15 target of reducing emissions by 8% under the Kyoto Protocol. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-02-02 12:57:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/about-us/documents/administrativedocuments/corporate_document_2007_4?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic EEA Annual Management Plan 2007 No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2007-01-30 00:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/EMEPCORINAIR4?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This third edition of the emission inventory guidebook prepared by the UNECE/EMEP Task Force on Emissions Inventories and Projections provides a comprehensive guide to state-of-the-art atmospheric emissions inventory methodology. Its intention is to support reporting under the UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution and the EU directive on national emission ceilings. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2006-12-21 00:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eea_report_2006_11?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic Changes in land cover in Europe reflect modifications in the uses of land, which often compete for the same resource: development of artificial surfaces for housing, transport and economic activities; intensification or extensification of agriculture practices; conversion of natural land to agriculture or farmland abandonment; afforestation or deforestation. Accounting for land cover change in a consistent way at the European scale has been made possible because of the Corine land cover inventory by satellite images carried out in 1990 and 2000 (and planned to be repeated for 2006). Based on spatial information, the land accounts produced by the EEA provide assessments of the magnitude of the various types of change and, at the same time, of their distribution over the European territory. Built up using the methodology of the integrated system of economic environmental accounting (SEEA2003) of the United Nations, land cover accounts are connected to other sets of tables which describe the use of the natural resources by the economy. Land cover accounts can serve as well as a platform to account for ecosystem integrity and goods and services provided to societies by these ecosystems. Land cover accounts 1990-2000 have been produced for 24 European countries. The report analyses the main results for these countries and presents the methodology used for that purpose. The complete database is available at the EEA via its website, and its access is supported by powerful as well as user friendly extraction tools which make it possible to produce accounts for various types of geographical breakdowns. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2006-12-01 17:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/briefing_2006_4?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic Europe is one of the most urbanised continents on earth, with approximately 75 % of its population living in urban areas. The urban future of Europe, however, is a matter of great concern. More than a quarter of the European Union's territory has now been directly affected by urban land use. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2006-11-24 10:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eea_report_2006_10?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The growth of cities in Europe has historically been driven by increasing urban populations. However, today, even where there is little or no population pressure, a variety of factors are still driving urban sprawl. These are rooted in the desire to realise new lifestyles in suburban environments, outside the inner city. The mixture of forces behind these trends include both micro and macro socio-economic trends, which are resulting in sprawling cities all over Europe. The strategies and instruments to control sprawl strongly depend on today's realities of multiple and interacting levels of governance, from local to European. This is particularly true with regard to the substantial financial flows that shape planning budgets. At present, planning policies often reflect the logic of the market. They would better reflect a vision of urban development, in which environmental and social considerations are fully embedded in spatial planning policies at all steps of the policy cycle from problem identification and policy design through to the implementation and ex-post evaluation stages. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2006-11-24 10:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2006_9?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The primary goal of the proposed European Forest Type scheme is to improve assessment of forest condition based on e.g. indicators reported on sustainable forest management in Europe, within the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE). The scheme thus provides 14 main forest categories for international reporting (pan-Europe). No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2006-11-10 00:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eea_report_2006_9?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The latest projections from pre-2004 EU Member States (EU-15) show that greenhouse gas emissions could be brought down to 8.0 % below 1990 levels by 2010. If all existing and planned domestic policy measures are implemented and Kyoto mechanisms as well as carbon sinks are used, the EU-15 will reach its Kyoto Protocol target. This projection relies on figures from several Member States which suggest that they will cut emissions by more than is required to meet their national targets. Existing domestic policies and measures will reduce total EU-15 greenhouse gas emissions by a net effect of 0.6 % from 1990 levels. When additional domestic policies and measures (planned but not yet implemented) are taken into account, the EU-15 could reduce emissions by 4.6 %. The projected use of Kyoto mechanisms by ten of the EU-15 will reduce emissions by a further 2.6 % at a cost of EUR 2 830 million. The use of carbon sinks, such as planting of forests to remove CO2, would contribute an additional 0.8 %. All ten new EU Member States are on track to achieve their individual Kyoto targets, despite rising emissions. This is largely due to economic restructuring in the 1990s. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2006-10-27 09:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/corporate_document_2006_2?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The purpose of the the ninth progress report on Eionet priority data flows is to show progress against agreed, stable, well-defined objectives in order to allow countries to focus their resources on putting regular reporting procedures in place. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2006-10-16 23:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2006_8?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic This report is the annual European Community LRTAP Convention Emission Inventory presenting the European Community air pollution data from the years 1990 to 2004. The report provides an overview of emission trends and data availability for EU-25; NFR Tables IV 1A are provided for EU-15 only. Due to data gaps, EU-15 totals were estimated for NOx, CO, NMVOCs and SOx covering 1990 to 2004, and NH3 was estimated for certain years. Data reported for particulate matter (PM), persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and heavy metals (HM) are presented in Annex F. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2006-10-12 23:00:00Folder http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/report_2005_0802_115659?utm_source=EEASubscriptions&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_campaign=Generic The EEA continued to deliver a major contribution to the European Community's 6th environment action programme in 2005, at the same time as developing further its information systems and networks, providing support to the European Parliament and meetings of the Council of Ministers, and underpinning initiatives in the wider world. The role of the Agency in performing policy effectiveness evaluations was also consolidated. No publisher EEA (European Environment Agency) 2006-07-27 09:00:00Folder