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The EU 2010 Biodiversity Baseline provides facts and figures on the state and trends of the different biodiversity and … ecosystem components. It thereby supports the EU in developing the post 2010 sub targets and provides factual data for measuring … and monitoring progress in the EU from 2011 to 2020. …
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The global population is congregating in our cities. Eighty per cent of the world’s estimated nine billion people in 2050 are expected to live in urban areas. Our cities and urban areas face many challenges from social to health to environmental. The impacts of cities and urban areas are felt...
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The EU emitted close to 5 billion tonnes (Gt) of CO2-equivalent emissions in 2008. It contributes today around 12 % of … annual global anthropogenic direct greenhouse gas emissions. The EU is making good progress towards achieving its emission …
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This report presents a summary of selected issues from the European Environment Agency Transport and Environment Reporting Mechanism (EEA TERM) set of transport and environment integration indicators. It is not simply a replication of indicators but rather an attempt to put insights from the...
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The Eionet priority data flows identify a set of agreed, stable, well-defined objectives to provide a focus for countries when they are putting procedures in place for regular reporting. The objective is to encourage countries towards better performance through “compétition amicale”...
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In diesem Jahr nimmt uns „Signale“ mit auf eine Reise, bei der wir dem Lauf des Wassers von den Gletschern der Alpen bis zu den Permafrostböden der Arktis und in das Gangesdelta folgen werden. Wir besuchen vertraute wie exotische Orte und wollen dabei herausfinden, wie wir unsere Beziehung...
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Union (EU) first recognised the specific characteristics of mountain areas in 1975 through the designation of Less Favoured … Areas (LFAs). During the last decade, EU cohesion policy and the Treaty of Lisbon have both focused specifically on …
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between 20 and 30 % of the resources we use are now imported. At the other end of the materials chain, the EU economy … generates around six tons of waste per person every year. With the boom in international trade, EU consumption and production …
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Average global air and ocean temperatures are rising, leading to the melting of snow and ice and rising global mean sea level. Ocean acidification results from higher CO2 concentrations. With unabated greenhouse gas emissions, climate change could lead to an increasing risk of irreversible...
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This report documents the most recent emissions and projections information requested under the National Emission Ceilings Directive (NECD) by the end of 2009. The directive requires all 27 Member States of the European Union to report information annually concerning emissions and projections...
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