The European environment – state and outlook 2010

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Circus Climate: Imagining change: Culture Night at the EEA, 9 October 2009. Kongens Nytorv 6, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Tackling climate change requires a shift to a resource efficient, low carbon and green economy: Climate change is happening. The current global average temperature is already about 0.7-0.8 degree Celsius above the pre-industrial level. Even if greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations had stabilized in the year 2000, temperatures are predicted to increase by 1.2 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level by the end of the 21st century.
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Understanding climate change — SOER 2010 thematic assessment: Average global air and ocean temperatures are rising, leading to the melting of snow and ice and rising global mean sea level. Ocean acidification results from higher CO2 concentrations. With unabated greenhouse gas emissions, climate change could lead to an increasing risk of irreversible shifts in the climate system with potentially serious consequences. Temperature rises of more than 1.5–2 °C above pre-industrial levels are likely to cause major societal and environmental disruptions in many regions. The atmospheric CO2 concentration needs to be stabilised at 350–400 parts per million (ppm) in order to have a 50 % chance of limiting global mean temperature increase to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels (according to the IPCC in 2007, and confirmed by later scientific insights).
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Bend the trend — every small act counts: International business leaders, social organisers, Lapland's reindeer herders and the Netherlands' architects all have stories to tell about how climate change has affected them. The European Environment Agency is providing them a platform to make their voices and solutions heard. The Agency also invites everyone to pledge a small change in their lifestyle.
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Institutional set-up of REDD and the involvement of the private sector: The Asia-Europe Foundation together with the Government of Slovenia will organise an official EU side-event on "Institutional set-up of REDD and the involvement of the private sector".
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Chronicles of Ecotopia: Telling stories about Sustainable Futures: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC UPON REGISTRATION. The role of creatives, designers and policymakers has never been more important - both in making a new society desirable and the nuts and bolts of making it work. The Chronicles of Ecotopia is a film showing, followed by a discussion that explores the role of creating aspirational stories and visions of positive futures. Just as the 'Futurama', 'Autotopia' exhibitions defined much of the way we live in the 20th Century, moves are now underway to create the same collective positive vision for the 21st Century.
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Bending the trend: On Tuesday 8 December, Antoine Le Menestrel performed a thrilling dramatic ascent of the facades of the EEA and the French Embassy at Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen. The French climber and his company, Lézards Bleus, used the monumental architecture, music and light to draw the public's attention to the urgent need to tackle climate change.
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Climate Change, GDP and measurements of prosperity: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC UPON REGISTRATION This side event, organised by the European Economic and Social Committee, will present new approaches on how indicators could measure the real prosperity of our societies more appropriately.
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Ice cube exhibition: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. This exhibition, which is being organised by the European Commission, illustrates the difference between applying European proposals in order to mitigate climate change and taking no action at all. Intervention by EEA Executive Director, Professor Jacqueline McGlade, the 17th at 16.30
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GoodPlanet at the Danish Film Institute: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. On the occasion of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, the GoodPlanet Foundation will be organising free projections of various films on climate change and the environment at the Danish Film Institute (DFI).
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