The ‘Transport and Environment Reporting Mechanism’ (TERM) includes a number of indicators used for tracking the short and long-term environmental performance of the transport sector in the 28 Member States of the European Union (EU-28). This briefing presents the latest indicator-based assessment of progress being made towards key transport-related policy targets and objectives.
This report gives an overview of the EU’s progress towards 29 environmental policy objectives. These are relevant to the achievement of the 7th Environment Action Programme (EAP) three key priority objectives: natural capital; resource-efficient, low-carbon economy; and people’s health and well-being.
Promoting cost-efficient flood risk reduction via green
infrastructure solutions.
The EU Emissions Trading System in numbers
This briefing presents early ‘approximated’ (proxy) estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for 2016 in the European Union (EU), as reported by Member States in July 2017. Detailed results are available in the report, Approximated European Union greenhouse gas inventory: Proxy GHG emission estimates for 2016.
Tracking progress towards Europe's climate and energy targets
Enhancing coherence of the knowledge base, policies and practices.
The report assesses current practices and level of know-how, and highlights emerging innovative tools national, regional and local authorities are using to tackle the impacts of weather- and climate-related hazards.
This report takes a food system approach to analyse
European production, consumption and trade of food,
and associated environmental and human health aspects.
Understanding the patterns, processes and actors involved
allows for more coherent and effective policy interventions to
reduce environmental pressures along the value chain, with
potential co-benefits to human health and well-being.
The report addresses both terrestrial and aquatic food
production and goes beyond the environmental impact
and economic performance of agriculture and fisheries.
The focus is on long-term sustainability objectives, as laid
down in the 2050 vision of the Seventh Environment Action
Programme and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
"Air quality in Europe — 2017 report" presents an updated analysis of air quality and its impacts, based on official data from more than 2 500 monitoring stations across Europe in 2015.
Annual accounts for the European Environment Agency, financial year 2016
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
Landscape is one of the most precious assets
contributing to Europe's cultural identity. As landscape
is determined to a large extent by land use, the study
of land use changes, especially through changes in
the land cover, provides clues to the drivers of the
transitions that landscape is currently going through.
New data on land cover change in Europe up to 2012
show that total land cover change increased from
the 2000‑2006 period to the 2006‑2012 period.
The European Environment Agency (EEA) publishes Signals annually, providing a snapshot of issues of interest to the environmental debate and the wider public. Signals 2017 focuses on energy.
This document is the annual European Union (EU)
emission inventory report under the United Nations
Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention
on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP)
(UNECE, 1979). The report and its accompanying data
constitute the official submission by the European
Commission on behalf of the EU as a Party to
the Executive Secretary of UNECE.
This briefing presents the results of data collected in 2016 for 10 Eionet core data flows. It summarises the evaluation of close to 1 000 data deliveries received from reporting countries. The purpose of the briefing is to show progress against agreed reporting criteria (timeliness and data quality) in order to allow countries to identify and prioritise the resources they need for regular reporting procedures. The provision of high-quality data by Eionet is fundamental for the EEA to achieve its mission to provide timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to policy-making agents and the public.
The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) ensures public access to information on pollutant releases to the environment from Europe’s largest industrial facilities. This briefing, based upon recently updated E-PRTR data, provides details of Europe’s largest emitting facilities for selected key pollutants in 2015. A more detailed assessment of the large combustion plants (LCP) sector also highlights the ongoing shift away from certain fossil fuels in the sector over the past decade, as well as improvements made to the sector’s environmental performance.
The orderly transition to the low carbon, climate-resilient economy that Europe is aiming for is also an investment challenge that depends on a substantial redirection of finance flows towards more sustainable investments. Meeting this challenge and harvesting the associated opportunities requires an improved knowledge base in terms of clear investment information at EU and national levels. Assessing the state-of-play of climate finance tracking in Europe, a recent European Environment Agency (EEA) study indicates that few European countries have translated their national climate and energy objectives into corresponding investment needs and plans.
European Union (EU) water policies encourage Member States to implement better water demand management practices. This is a response to the pressures on water resources that are continuously increasing. Management practices on water demand are being revised to improve the existing supply-demand balance and ultimately to bring about a more water-efficient society.
Air pollution is the single largest environmental health risk in Europe, and can cause respiratory problems and shorten lifespans. It also contributes to the acidification of soil and surface water, causes eutrophication in sensitive habitats and can damage vegetation through exposure to ozone.
This document describes the work carried out by the EEA in 2016.
