The need for setting up a multi-purpose European chemicals information system that can be used as a tool in support of the current legislation of chemical substances within the EU has been expressed by various stakeholders within the EU. A database on monitoring activities in Europe is one of...

Significant changes in climate are already visible globally, and are expected to become more pronounced in the future. These will lead to wide ranging impacts on the natural and man-made environment across different sectors and regions, which in turn will lead to economic costs. These economic...

This inventory report accompanies the annual emission inventory submission of the European Community to the UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution. The report presents an overview of air pollutant emission data reported by the EU-27 Member States between the years 1990 to...

Despite political commitment, Europe is struggling to halt the loss of biodiversity by 2010. Forests, as the hosts of much of the biological diversity in Europe, are vital to this debate. Any initiative designed to halt the biodiversity loss in Europe must take forests into account.

The EEA continued to deliver a major contribution to the European Community's Sixth Environment Action Programme (and its mid-term review) in 2007, at the same time as developing further its information systems and networks, providing support to the European Parliament and meetings of the...

This inventory report accompanies the annual emission inventory submission of the European Community to the UNECE Convention on Long - Range Transboundary Air Pollution. It presents an overview of air pollutant emission data reported by the EU-27 Member States between the years 1990 to 2006. In...

The report presents past and projected climate change and impacts in Europe by means of about 40 indicators and identifies sectors and regions most vulnerable with a high need for adaptation. The report covers the following indicator categories: atmosphere and climate, cryosphere, marine...

Summary report of the conference held on 27-29 September 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia. This report was prepared by the organisers of the conference 'Time for action — towards sustainable consumption and production in Europe'. Three sets of three top-priority recommendations towards sustainable...

This report presents an assessment of the theoretical potential to reduce air emissions of SO2 and NOX had best available techniques (BAT) been fully introduced in a set of electricity-generating large combustion plants (LCP) within the European Union (EU-25) in 2004. Emissions of NOX and SO2...

Ozone levels during the summer of 2007 were among the lowest in the past decade.. The number and spatial extent of exceedances was lower than in any of the last ten summers. In contrast to the summer of 2006, no exceedances of the information threshold value (180 microgram/m3, Directive...