This report presents an inventory of existing scenarios studies relevant for Europe in the context of sustainable development, including European and global models. It also provides a useful review of a selected number of scenarios and pinpoints their strengths and weaknesses.

This first edition of Environmental signals marks the beginning of a new period in reporting on the environment for policy-makers and the public by the European Environment Agency. Previous reports such as Europe's environment: the second assessment and Environment in the European Union at the...

The present report focuses on the state of development of spatial and territorial indicators based on land cover as contribution to the environmental indicator based reporting. The report summarises the joint efforts during 1999-2000 of the European Topic Centre on Land Cover (ETC/LC) and the...

This technical report aims to provide guidance to all involved in data collection for the indicator-based state of the environment report that the EEA has been asked to provide for the next conference of environment ministers of all European countries, to be held in Kiev in May 2003. The report...

The projected progress of the EU Member States and candidate countries towards reaching their Kyoto Protocol targets by 2010 is analysed in this report. The analysis is based on national programmes. For each country the report shows projected emissions and the sectors that are contributing most,...

This report reflects the content of the 4th annual EIONET waste workshop held in Bratislava, Slovak Republic in October 2001. It covers the main presentations and the outcomes of the discussions held during the various sessions of the workshop, which was attended for the first time by...

This report addresses the use of benchmarking as a management tool in the context of local authority actions towards sustainability management. The growing interest at the European policy-making level in stimulating the use of sustainability management tools and exchange of best practices among...

This report serves as input to the annual progress evaluation report of the European Commission, under the Monitoring Mechanism of Community CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions. EC greenhouse gas emissions in 1999 were 2 % below 1998 levels, and 4 % below 1990 levels. This cut takes the EC...

The projected progress of the EU Member States and candidate countries towards reaching their Kyoto Protocol targets by 2010 is analysed in this report. The analysis is based on national programmes. For each country the report shows projected emissions and the sectors that are contributing most,...

This paper presents an overview of administrative culture and practices for EPI in Europe, and investigates some of the main management styles used. It reviews institutional structures and practices in the EU-25, the candidate and applicant countries, the countries of the European Free Trade...