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Ecosystems Signals

Page Last modified 08 Dec 2022
This section of the zero pollution monitoring assessment presents a series of short case studies that highlight additional sources of information on the impacts of pollution on ecosystems.

Introduction

The EEA zero pollution monitoring assessment is mainly based on formal, official EU-wide data sets and indicators. To broaden the assessment, other sources of information are also examined. These sources include findings from research, country-level information and other information that may help highlight pollution issues that are insufficiently addressed by legislative or other monitoring. This section of the zero pollution monitoring assessment presents a series of short case studies that highlight some of these additional sources of information. We refer to these as ‘Signals’. 

The Signals below align with the subsections of the ‘Zero pollution and ecosystems’ section of the assessment and deal with freshwater, marine, air and soil pollution. There are also some Signals which do not fit into these specific categories and they are presented as ‘biodiversity signals’.

Finally, a brief summary (Figure 1) is also presented of some of the key knowledge gaps in relation to zero pollution and ecosystems.

Figure 1. Knowledge gaps — zero pollution and ecosystems

 

Cover image source: © Panagiotis Dalagiorgos, Well with Nature /EEA

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