Publications

Air Implementation Pilot - Lessons learnt from the implementation of air quality legislation at urban level

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:45:00 +0200

Almost three quarters of Europeans live in cities. The air quality in our cities is therefore of significant importance to the health of Europeans. Considerable progress has been made in the past twenty years in improving urban air quality, but issues remain. A number of different air pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, and ozone remain above regulated levels, posing a threat to human health. This report describes a European pilot project to help identify and address the reasons underlying this 'gap' in implementation of air quality policy in 12 European cities, and thereby draw lessons of wider relevance.

Results and lessons from implementing the Water Assets Accounts in the EEA area

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:07:29 +0200

These are the first EU-level water accounts that display water balances at monthly and sub-basin levels. EEA developed these accounts in the hope that the many data gaps and methodological imperfections will be ironed out in the future.

Adaptation in Europe - Addressing risks and opportunities from climate change in the context of socio-economic developments

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:18:32 +0200

This report provides policymakers across Europe, at different levels of governance and stages of policy formulation, with information that can be used to support adaptation planning and implementation. Specific parts of the report are therefore targeted at different audiences.

EEA Signals 2013 - Every breath we take

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:09:46 +0200

Improving air quality in Europe: Signals 2013 focuses on Europe’s air. This year’s edition tries to explain the current state of air quality in Europe, where they come from, how air pollutants form, and how they affect our health and the environment. It also gives an overview of the way we build our knowledge on air, and how we tackle air pollution through a wide range of policies and measures.

Environmental pressures from European consumption and production

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:00:00 +0100

A study in integrated environmental and economic analysis - This report, prepared within the broad framework of EEA work on environmental accounts, presents and describes the tool of environmentally extended input-output analysis and illustrates its potential uses. The report aims to: present the tool of environmentally extended input-output analysis of EE-IOT and assess its potential for answering key SCP policy questions; make use of the tool and the latest data available in Europe to identify the environmental 'hotspots' and leverage points in European consumption and production; and identify weaknesses and potential for improvement in the current application of the tool.

Towards a Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) in the European neighbourhood - the ENPI-SEIS project

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:45:00 +0100

Environmental tax reform in Europe: opportunities for eco-innovation

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0100

Environmental policy instruments are frequently characterised as obstacles to economic activity but environmental taxes can, in fact, be the opposite — serving as catalysts for the creativity that underpins thriving economies.

Environmental tax reform in Europe: implications for income distribution

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0100

Although environmental tax reforms (ETR) tend to improve incomes across society, they can have mild regressive impacts in that richer households gain more than poorer ones. Care is needed to design ETRs in ways that ensure that certain groups are able to benefit equally. ETR's overall benefits for the economy, environment and society are potentially significant. ETR should therefore be regarded as a key element in the policymaking toolkit for shifting to a green economy.

An experimental framework for ecosystem capital accounting in Europe

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:39:15 +0100

This report presents an overall experimental framework for ecosystem capital accounting. It is based on the to implement simplified ecosystem capital accounts for Europe as a 'fast-track' initiative launched by the European Environment Agency in 2010. The experimental framework highlights accounting balances and relationships between accounting tables and systems as well as key indicators and aggregates that describe economy ecosystem interactions. Ecosystem accounts are being developed as part of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounts which aims at supplementing the UN System of National Accounts with information on the environment and natural capital.

Catalogue of scenario studies — Knowledge base for Forward-Looking Information and Services

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:10:08 +0200

The report brings together a review of available scenarios studies relevant to environmental assessment and decision-making at the European (or sub-European) scale (263 studies), and facts sheets of selected 44 studies using common description categories, which enables the user to review existing scenario studies that may be of relevance to their particular interest and benefit from them. It is also a contribution to the evolving knowledge base for Forward-Looking Information and Services (FLIS).

Knowledge base for Forward-Looking Information and Services (FLIS)

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:09:20 +0200

Knowledge base for Forward-looking information and services (FLIS) is a platform to support long-term decision-making. The aim of FLIS is to introduce forward-looking components and perspectives into existing environmental information systems and to expand the knowledge base and its use.

EU 2010 Biodiversity Baseline

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:00:00 +0200

The EU 2010 Biodiversity Baseline provides facts and figures on the state and trends of the different biodiversity and ecosystem components. It thereby supports the EU in developing the post‑2010 sub‑targets and provides factual data for measuring and monitoring progress in the EU from 2011 to 2020.

Tracking progress towards Kyoto and 2020 targets in Europe

Adobe InDesign CS4 (6.0) — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:00:00 +0200

This report presents an overview of the progress achieved so far by the EU, its Member States and other EEA member countries towards their respective targets under the Kyoto Protocol and the EU burden-sharing agreement. The assessment is based on greenhouse gas emission data in Europe for 2008, the first year of the Kyoto Protocol's first commitment period which runs from 2008 to 2012. The recent availability of 2009 emissions estimates for the EU and a limited number of countries broadens, in these cases, the basis of the assessment to two years of the five-year commitment period.

Eionet priority data flows May 2009-April 2010

Adobe InDesign CS4 (6.0) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:24:11 +0200

Eionet data flow progress report

The territorial dimension of environmental sustainability – Potential territorial indicators to support the environmental dimension of territorial cohesion

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:15:17 +0200

This study undertakes an analysis of the environmental dimensions of territorial cohesion and of related EU policies. It is intended to contribute to and support external processes including the European Commission's Green Paper on Territorial Cohesion, revision of the EU budget (e.g. regarding Cohesion Policy) and the work of ESPON (the European Spatial Planning Observation Network) on territorial indicator development.