The main objective of this study is to define and test a comprehensive indicator for the sustainability impacts of gas infrastructure projects considering the TEN-E Regulation requirements of Art. 4.2 (b) (iv) and Annex IV.3. The proposed indicator improves the consideration of the projects’ sus...
This document provides additional guidance, in addition to the ILCD entry-level requirements (JRC 2012), in order to develop process data sets, compliant with the Environmental Footprint (EF) requirements. EF compliant Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) data sets shall be compliant with: - EF ELEMENTARY...
The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires the national classifications of good ecological status to be harmonised through an intercalibration exercise. In this exercise, significant differences in status classification among Member States are harmonized by comparing and, if necessary...
The Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS) provides alerts and preliminary impact estimations of the natural disasters around the world, like earthquakes, tsunami, tropical cyclones and floods. The Tropical Cyclones (TCs) are among the most damaging events. They affect the populat...
In July 2016, the Commission adopted a legal proposal (COM(2016) 479) for the inclusion of Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) in the EU 2030 energy and climate targets. In this proposal, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals from Managed Forest Land in EU Member States will be...
With this report and its scoreboard of indicators, the European Environment Agency (EEA) is responding to the mandate given to it to support with indicators the monitoring of the General Union Environment Action Programme to 2020, 'Living well, within the limits of our planet' (7th EAP). The sco...
The MSFD workshop on eutrophication (D5), held in Ispra JRC (29th-30th of September 2015) aimed to provide clear proposals and conclusions on some of the outstanding issues identified in the D5 review manual (May 2015 consultation version: https://circabc.europa.eu/w/browse/ed3cd091-aa56-4f8e-96...
The primary aim of this study is to identify a set of sustainability criteria through which EU cities can assess their environmental performance. The report provides insight into different indicator frameworks and data sets. Based on that, a new indicator set for city environmental performance w...
This work presents the application to Mediterranean stocks of a set of model-based indicators, being developed for monitoring the implementation of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). The work constitutes an application of the methodology, as such the results should not be used as representative ...