376 Articles found
European Environment Agency (EEA) Articles
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Green infrastructure and flood management - Promoting cost-efficient flood risk reduction via green infrastructure solutions
Executive summary Europe`s floodplains once covered wide stretches along European rivers and were valued for their high ecological importance. Over a number of years they have been cleared for agricultural purposes and changed through urban ...
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Environmental indicator report 2017 — In support to the monitoring of the 7th Environment Action Programme
This report gives an overview of the EU’s progress towards 29 environmental policy objectives. These are relevant to the achievement of the 7th Environment Action Programme (EAP) three key priority objectives: natural capital; ...
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Trends and projections in the EU ETS in 2017
About this report This 2017 report of the European Environment Agency (EEA) provides an analysis of past, present and future emissions trends under the European Union (EU) Emissions Trading System (ETS), based on the latest data and information ...
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Air quality in europe 2017
The Air quality in Europe report series from the EEA presents regular assessments of Europe`s air pollutant emissions, concentrations and their associated impacts on health and the environment. Air pollution is a key environmental and social ...
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Science for Environment Policy
Potentially toxic elements in European soils mapped by researchers. A new study has mapped levels of chemical elements found in Europe a aoricultTal soils. In most places, unusually high ...
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Circular by design - Products in the circular economy
This report explores the circular economy from a product perspective, applying a systemic approach and transition theory. Drivers of product design and usage are discussed in the context of emerging consumption trends and business models. For ...
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Key trends and drivers in greenhouse gas emissions in the EU in 2015 and the past 25 years
Publication Created 31 May 2017 Published 01 Jun 2017 Topics: Climate change mitigation This briefing summarises the main findings of the EU’s 2017 greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory submission under the United Nations Framework ...
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Analysis of key trends and drivers in greenhouse gas emissions in the EU between 1990 and 2015
Publication Created 31 May 2017 Published 01 Jun 2017 Topics: Climate change mitigation The report analyses the major factors underpinning the trends in greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, both in the last year and over the period since ...
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Application of the European Union Emissions Trading Directive in 2015
Executive summary This European Environment Agency (EEA) report, Application of the European Union Emissions Trading Directive in 2015, provides an updated overview of the information reported by European Union Member States on the implementation ...
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Financing urban adaptation to climate change
Municipalities across Europe increasingly acknowledge the need to adapt to climate change and have begun to adopt various measures. Meeting the costs of adaptation measures for climate change is, however, a major challenge. Municipalities have found ...
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Mapping Europe`s environmental future: understanding the impacts of global megatrends at the national level
This report sets out the logic for identifying the implications of Global Mega Trends at the national, regional or European level, and aims to provide inspiration to EEA member and cooperating countries to undertake their own national studies. It ...
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Environmental indicator report 2016 — In support to the monitoring of the 7th Environment Action Programme
This report examines if the EU and its immediate neighbours are on target to achieving by 2020 the three thematic priority objectives (natural capital; resource efficiency and low carbon economy; health and well-being) of the 7th Environment Action ...
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Land recycling in Europe
Land take, or the change from non-artificial to artificial land cover, reflects on-going and often conflicting claims on land. Some of the land that is `taken` for urban development is covered with an impervious surface, which severely hampers ...
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European water policies and human health — Combining reported environmental information
Society depends on the satisfactory and sustainable management of water. Historically, the primary purpose of water treatment was to protect human health, through reducing disease being transmitted through water. Subsequent measures to address ...
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Air quality in Europe — 2016 report
This report presents an updated overview and analysis of air quality in Europe. It is focused in the state in 2015 and the development from 2004 to 2015. It reviews progress towards meeting the requirements of the air quality directives. An overview ...
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Municipal waste management across European countries
This briefing is a synthesis of the outcomes of a country-by-country analysis that addressed 32 EEA countries: EU-28 Member States, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey (ETC/WMGE, 2016), complemented with some information from the Western Balkan ...
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Progress of the European Union and its Member States towards 2020 climate and energy targets
The 2016 edition of the annual European Environment Agency (EEA) `Trends and projections` report confirms that the EU is well on track to meet its targets on greenhouse gas emission, renewable energy and energy efficiency set for 2020. Progress at ...
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Trends and projections in the EU ETS in 2016 — The EU Emissions Trading System in numbers
About this report This 2016 report of the European Environment Agency (EEA) provides an analysis of past, present and future emissions trends under the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), based on the latest data and information available from the ...
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EMEP/EEA air pollutant emission inventory guidebook 2016
1 Guidebook Introduction 1.1 Introduction The joint EMEP (1)/EEA Air Pollutant Emission Inventory Guidebook (the `Guidebook`), following the `Guidelines for Reporting Emissions and Projections Data` under the United Nations Economic Commission for ...
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Environment and climate policy evaluation
The intended audience of this European Environment Agency (EEA) publication is the professional environmental evaluation community, that is, evaluators of European environment and climate policies, the EEA`s networks and interested evaluation ...