Europe’s environment — state and outlook 2015 (SOER 2015)
Synthesis report; European briefings: in particular ‘Climate change impacts and adaptation’, ‘Mitigating climate change’, ‘Soil’ and ‘Agriculture’; Global megatrends: in particular ‘Diverging population trends’, ‘Intensified global competition for resources’, and ‘Increasingly severe consequences of climate change’; Cross-country comparisons: in particular ‘Mitigating climate change’.
National adaptation policy processes in European countries (2014)
Adaptation of transport to climate change in Europe (2014)
Environmental indicator report 2014
State of Europe’s seas (2015)
Annual European Union greenhouse gas inventory 1990–2012 and inventory report 2014
Trends and projections in Europe 2014
EEA indicators, in particular indicators on climate change, agriculture, energy, soil, and coasts and seas
European Climate Adaptation Platform Climate-ADAPT

External sources

European Commission Directorate-General for Climate Action
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Mayors Adapt, an initiative of the European Commission to encourage adaptation in cities
ICLEI, a global cities network that promotes sustainability in cities
WHO Europe on climate change
Food and Agriculture Organization on climate change

The new kingdom of the golden eagle

Environment & Me

The European Environment Agency invited European citizens to share their thoughts, concerns and views in a photography competition 'Environment & Me'. The EEA received more than 800 photographs, depicting a personal or a generic story, focusing on a wide range of environmental topics. A selection of the entries are used in Signals 2015, Europe’s Environment — state and outlook 2015 (SOER 2015) as well as in other EEA outputs.

More information on Environment & Me is available at www.eea.europa.eu/competition.

To view the finalists, please visit our Flick’r account at www.flickr.com/photos/europeanenvironmentagency.

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Living in a changing climate Our climate is changing. Warmer temperatures, changes in precipitation levels and patterns, or extreme weather events are already impacting Europe, and these impacts result in real losses. In a series of short articles and interviews, the European Environment Agency’s Signals 2015 presents an overview of what causes climate change and what climate change means for human health, the environment, and the economy.

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EEA Signals 2015 - Living in a changing climate Signals 2015 focuses on climate change: Our climate is changing. Global average temperatures are increasing, sea levels are rising, precipitation patterns are changing, and extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe. In a series of short articles and interviews, Signals 2015 presents an overview of what causes climate change and what climate change means for human health, the environment, and the economy.

State of Europe's seas The main aim of this report is to assess whether Europe's seas can be considered healthy, clean and undisturbed, and productive. These are three core aspects of the EU's main marine policy instrument — the Marine Strategy Framework Directive — and relate to the condition of marine ecosystems and the human drivers of ecosystem change. This assessment also involves identifying the main sustainability challenges affecting our seas, and how the EU is responding to these challenges. Ultimately, the report argues that EU is not on the path to fulfil its ambition of achieving sustainable use of its seas; although it is fully empowered to do so through the current array of policies and knowledge. This report also discusses how a long-term transition to sustainability could then be secured using the available policies and knowledge.

The European environment — state and outlook 2015 — synthesis report The synthesis report informs future European environmental policy in general and its implementation between 2015 and 2020 in particular. It includes a reflection on the European environment in a global context, as well as chapters summarising the state of, trends in, and prospects for the environment in Europe.

Adaptation of transport to climate change in Europe Challenges and options across transport modes and stakeholders. This report explores current climate change adaptation practices concerning transport across European countries. It provides an overview on the challenges and state adaptation action, a review of a number of initiatives in different countries, and conclusions on a potential way forward. Its purpose is to stimulate discussions among the many different stakeholders concerned with transport adaptation. Opening the perspective on the transport system and sector as a whole should inspire and encourage learning from practices across modes and areas of responsibility and support efforts to mainstream adaptation within transport-related policy and practices. The factual information collected is based on data available in the Climate-ADAPT information platform, a literature review, case studies provided by many stakeholders, and a questionnaire on transport and adaptation addressed to EEA member countries in 2013.

Trends and projections in Europe 2014 Tracking progress towards Europe's climate and energy targets for 2020

Environmental indicator report 2014 Environmental impacts of production-consumption systems in Europe. This report provides another perspective on the green economy transition, addressing the global value chains that meet European demand for goods and services. In doing so, it goes beyond previous reports and analyses to address the global dimension of Europe's economic activities. This perspective is highly relevant because European production and consumption systems rely heavily on imported resources and goods.

National adaptation policy processes in European countries — 2014 This report draws on the results of a self-assessment survey conducted on national adaptation policy processes in Europe. In May 2013, the survey was sent out by the European Environment Agency (EEA) to authorities in countries responsible for coordinating adaptation at national level (the EEA 32 member countries, and in Croatia in July 2013 as a new EU Member State and EEA member country). Some 30 EEA member countries provided their responses on a voluntary basis. Thanks to the high response rate and the wealth of information provided by these European countries, this report presents a unique collection of information and the largest and most comprehensive overview of national adaptation policy processes in Europe, to date.

Annual European Union greenhouse gas inventory 1990–2012 and inventory report 2014 This report is the annual submission of the greenhouse gas inventory of the European Union to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. It presents greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2012 for EU-28, EU-15, individual Member States and economic sector.

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