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Understanding the full value of biodiversity loss

Accounting for all the benefits we gain from ecosystems is an effective way of measuring how biodiversity loss affects our well-being and quality of life. The European Environment Agency is feeding into the debate on the 'economics of ecosystems and biodiversity' with an extensive study on 'Ecosystems accounts for Mediterranean wetlands'.

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Europe cannot halt the loss of biodiversity without sustainable use of forests

Forests are home to a large number of the plant and animal species and therefore closely linked to the overall state of biodiversity in Europe. On the World Biodiversity Day, 22 May, the European Environment Agency draws attention to the growing demand for forest resources, including for bioenergy, which will exert greater pressures on forest biodiversity.

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Biodiversity and marine resources

Speech by Professor Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director, European Environment Agency at the Pre-COP 9 meeting, Bonn, May 14 2008. Symposium II: Biodiversity: Functions and uses

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Europe's nature changing rapidly due to climate change

Europe's biodiversity is already responding to climate change. 'Many species are already on the move, expanding northwards as temperatures rise,' says Prof. Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director of the EEA on the occasion of the celebration of the International Day for Biological Diversity and the theme of 'biodiversity and climate change'.

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Back to the future at Green Week 2007

What will Europe’s society and environment look like some thirty years from now? The PRELUDE project, which attempts to go far beyond the perspective of two legislative cycles and explore this question, will feature prominently for the European Environment Agency at this year’s four-day EU ‘Green Week’ event in Brussels, starting today.

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Sustainable use of forests is a must for halting biodiversity loss

Professor Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director of the European Environment Agency, warned EU ministers of increasing demands on Europe's forest resources. She recommended a management approach taking into account the wide range of services provided by forests.

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European Forests, Biomass and Broader Ecosystem Services

Speech by Professor Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director, European Environment Agency at the Informal Meeting of Environment Ministers, Brdo, Slovenia, 11-13 April 2008

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Unintended effects: the need for a proper assessment framework for agrofuels

EEA Executive Director, Professor Jacqueline McGlade's speech at the EEAC Workshop, Brussels, Belgium, 29 January 2008

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Getting the most out of Europe's bioenergy potential

A new report by the European Environment Agency confirms that there is a large potential for bioenergy production from agricultural biomass in Europe. However, the increasing demand for biofuels raises concerns about additional pressure on Europe’s environment and farmland biodiversity.

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Beyond GDP — Brussels Conference

'Gross domestic product, regularly used as an indicator of the size of a country's economy, does not factor in the benefits from nor the costs to the ecosystem,' said EEA Executive Director Prof. Jacqueline McGlade in her presentation at the expert workshop preceding the 'Beyond GDP' conference in Brussels this week.

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EU Presidency conference on the role and importance of biodiversity assessments in securing compliance with policy and regulations

Professor Jacqueline McGlade's speech at the European Business and Biodiversity workshop B: Biodiversity Related Biodiversity Assessments, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 12-13 November 2007

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New toolkit for biodiversity conservation — SEBI 2010 set of indicators launched

To help policy-makers halt the loss of biodiversity in Europe, the European Environment Agency today launched a report proposing 26 biodiversity indicators — the so-called SEBI 2010 set — to measure progress towards policy targets. The work with biodiversity indicators was given further recognition in the Biodiversity Declaration adopted on Thursday at the UNECE ministerial conference in Belgrade.

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Beehives

Beehives

20 Sep 2007

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