Noise pollution is a growing concern in Europe. Of particular importance is noise from transport and industrial sources, which are addressed by Directive 2002/49/EC relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise, otherwise known as the Environmental Noise Directive (END). As we...
This report was prepared by the European Environment Agency and its European Topic Centre on Air and Climate Change. The contributing authors were Nicolas Moussiopoulos, Zissis Samaras, Liana Kalognomou, Myrto Giannouli, Sofia Eleftheriadou and Giorgos Mellios from the Aristotle University, Thes...
This report presents an updated assessment of the cost of damage to health and the environment in monetary terms from air pollution released in the years 2008 to 2012 by industrial facilities in the EU-27, Norway and Switzerland. The approach employed to estimate damage costs is again based upon...
The greenhouse gases (GHGs) covered by the UNFCCC Kyoto Protocol include three groups of fluorinated GHGs (the so-called 'F-gases'): hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs) and sulphur hexafluoride (SF6). These F-gases have a high to very high global warming potential (GWP). Many F-ga...
This report aims at being as comprehensive as possible: it describes the outcomes of the full-scale realisation of water assets accounting across Europe. Water accounting is a combination of methodology and exploitation of heterogeneous data sets, and it seemed important to cover all issues rela...
This report presents an assessment of the main and most recent developments in the use of market-based instruments in European environmental policy. The report covers a range of instruments which are used as tools to achieve environmental objectives. These instruments include: environmental taxe...