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Drought impact on ecosystems in Europe, 2000-2022: Monitoring meteorological drought impacts supports policy measures that target, among others, greenhouse gas removals and the adaptation of ecosystems to climate change. In 2022, Europe experienced its hottest summer and second warmest year on record, and consequently the largest overall drought impacted area: over 630,000km2 as opposed to the 167,000km2 annual average impacted area between 2000 and 2022. Between 2000 and 2022 there is an increasing trend in drought-impacted areas in the EU. Drought impacts may increase further if global mitigation and EU and national adaptation strategies are not effectively implemented.

Economic damage caused by weather - and climate - related extreme events in EEA member countries (1980-2020) - per country based on CATDAT and NatCatSERVICE

The use of primary raw materials in the upstream supply chain of EU-28 household consumption domains, 2017 indexed values with textile consumption = 100

European Marine Climate Change Index (EMCCI): An index giving an indication of the relative magnitude of the effects of climate change stressors onmarin ecosystems.

Number of Member States that had met their national emission reduction commitments for the five key pollutants for 2030 and beyond in 2020, and number of Member States that need to reduce 2020 emission levels to meet their commitments: The figure shows the number of Member States that are below their reduction commitments and the aggregated groups with number of Member States that are above.

Share of textiles unsold according to available sources, per cent: There is little information available about the volume of textile products that are not sold. Few companies report on the volume of unsold goods and the numbers that exist are based on companies’ own reporting and lack transparency. The figure shows that the numbers are rather divergent between different countries, years, and sources. Overall, the average share of unsold textile products found in literature is 21%.

Land use efficiency in Functional Urban Areas, 2018: Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) represent 22.9 % of the EU territory, but host 75 % of its population. In order to fulfil global and European policy objectives, like “no net land take by 2050”, it is advisable to establish guidance values for land use efficiency for most common settlement types, in particular for urban fringes and small towns in rural areas. Such guidance values need to consider a good balance between efficient land use and sufficient green space to allow a good quality of life. This dashboard presents land use efficiency values for FUAs, calculated as land uptake per capita corresponding to the SDG indicator 11.3.1.

Eionet core data flows 2023: The European Environment Information and Observation Network (Eionet) is a partnership network of the EEA and its member and cooperating countries. This briefing presents the results of data collected in 2023 for 12 Eionet core data flows. It summarises the evaluation of hundreds of data deliveries received from reporting countries. The purpose of the briefing is to show progress against agreed reporting criteria (timeliness and data quality), allowing 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.