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Emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases from the European Union have fallen slightly after two years of increase, taking the EU a small step closer to its target of an 8% cut within the next eight years.
The EEA has launched a game to reach a younger audience. In cooperation with WHO / Europe, the EEA is launching a game, called Honoloko at the WHO conference on environment and Health in Budapest, Hungary (23 - 25 June).
More and better information on the effects of environmental pollutants on children is needed if society is to end its "large-scale experiment with children's health," the executive director of the European Environment Agency (EEA), Prof. Jacqueline McGlade, said today.
Ecosystems in Europe are changing as a result of both climate change and land use change, with the most dramatic changes taking place in the Mediterranean," Dagmar Schröter, scientific co-ordinator of a European research project on ecosystems, told the workshop.
The European Union needs to set renewable energy targets for 2020 to help cut greenhouse gas emissions and give energy markets long-term investment security, Prof. Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director of the European Environment Agency (EEA), said today.
The European Union needs to set renewable energy targets for 2020 to help cut greenhouse gas emissions and give energy markets long-term investment security, Prof. Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director of the EEA, said today.
Evidence of climate change is growing; nitrate pollution from farming continues; much of Europe's urban population is still exposed to air pollution above health protection levels; packaging waste is increasing and is projected to continue doing so. These are among the main findings of the EEA's latest annual survey of environmental trends in its 31 member countries., EEA Signals 2004, published today.
Evidence of climate change is growing; nitrate pollution from farming continues; much of Europe's urban population is still exposed to air pollution above health protection levels; packaging waste is increasing and is projected to continue doing so. These are among the main findings of the EEA's latest annual survey of environmental trends in its 31 member countries, EEA Signals 2004, published today.
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