External datasets catalogue

Energy Efficiency Directive — 01 Jul 2015

Member states progress towards indicative national energy efficiency targets for 2020 and 2030

Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change — 30 Jun 2015

IPCC Working Group III Contribution to AR5 - Concluding four years of intense scientific collaboration by hundreds of authors from around the world, this report responds to the request of the world's governments for a comprehensive, objective and policy neutral assessment of the current scientific knowledge on mitigating climate change.

Global Emissions EDGAR v4.2 FT2012 (November 2014) — 30 Jun 2015

In EDGAR v4.2 FT2012 emissions are calculated for the greenhouse gases CO2, CH4 and N2O from 1970 to 2012 based on the energy balance statistics of IEA (2013). In the table underneath the emission timeseries per substance and per country can be downloaded. For a description of the data we refer to UNEP emissions gap report (2014): Chapter 2.

Soil facts — 30 Jun 2015

Healthy soils play an important role in climate change mitigation by storing carbon (carbon sequestration) and decreasing global greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.

Organic agriculture and climate change — 30 Jun 2015

Global climate change is considered one of the most urgent environmental problems. The main negative impact on climate change is the emission of greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O), which is directly or indirectly due to the burning of non-renewable resources (carbon bound in mineral oil or coal). Tropical rainforests hold the biggest living biomass on very delicate soils that may lose their fertility completely when clear cutting is performed as in recent decades.

Forests in the ECE Region - Trends and Challenges in Achieving the Global Objectives on Forests — 30 Jun 2015

The ECE Region is rich in forest resources with a forest area of 1.89 billion ha – an astounding 41.4% of the global total. Further, the majority of the global wood based production is located in the region and there is increasing recognition of the value of natural capital and forest ecosystem services. Yet the forest sector, as well as many outside of it, is ever more concerned with changes in market prices and supply and demand patterns, production processes and investment as well as the need to improve livelihoods and address the impacts of climate change and loss of biodiversity in the region.

Agricultural production - crops — 30 Jun 2015

This article is part of a set of statistical articles based on the Eurostat publication Agriculture, forestry and fishery statistics. The term ‘crop’ covers a very broad range of cultivated plants. Within each type of crop there can also be considerable diversity in terms of genetic and phenotypic (physical or biochemical) characteristics. The range and variety of crops grown across the European Union (EU) reflects their heritable traits as well as the ability of plant breeders to harness those traits to best respond to the myriad of topographic and climatic conditions, pests and diseases.

The Oceanic Sink for Anthropogenic CO2 — 30 Jun 2015

Using inorganic carbon measurements from an international survey effort in the 1990s and a tracer-based separation technique, we estimate a global oceanic anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO) sink for the period from 1800 to 1994 of 118 ± 19 petagrams of carbon. The oceanic sink accounts for ~48% of the total fossil-fuel and cement-manufacturing emissions, implying that the terrestrial biosphere was a net source of CO to the atmosphere of about 39 ± 28 petagrams of carbon for this period. The current fraction of total anthropogenic CO emissions stored in the ocean appears to be about one-third of the long-term potential.

Percentage cover of marine protected area networks in European regional seas, including sites designated under Natura 2000, national laws and Regional Sea Conventions (dataset URL is not directly available) — 29 Jun 2015

Eutrophication Status of the OSPAR Maritime area — 29 Jun 2015

Eutrophication status (Helcom) — 29 Jun 2015

Eutrophication status 2007-2011

Annual national accounts — 26 Jun 2015

Eurostat data contain detailed information on population and GDP evolution per country, as well as aggregated data on the EU28 level. These may be coupled with vehicle fleet data to calculate the various indicators.

Services Producer Price Indices time series dataset — 25 Jun 2015

HadEX2 - global climate extremes dataset — 23 Jun 2015

HadEX2 is a global land-based climate extremes dataset produced through the coordination of the joint WMO CCl/CLIVAR/JCOMM Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI) . It comprises of 27 indices of temperature and precipitation on a 2.5° x 3.75° grid from 1901 to 2010. The indices represent seasonal and/or annual values derived from daily station data. Data are calculated using RClimDex/FClimDex software; developed and maintained on behalf of the ETCCDI by the Climate Research Branch of the Meteorological Service of Canada.

Number of heat waves — 23 Jun 2015

Sea turtles in the Mediterranean : Distribution, threats and conservation priorities — 09 Jun 2015

Initial assessment of European Seas based on Marine Strategy Framework Directive Article 8 reporting - Summary Report — 04 Jun 2015

Munitions dumped at sea — 03 Jun 2015

Wind farm ares — 02 Jun 2015

Land use by NUTS 2 regions — 01 Jun 2015