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...
The report reviews the challenges facing Europe to adapt to the impacts of climate change on water resources. Water is a critical sector for people's lives and the economy. Even if emissions of greenhouse gases were stabilised today, increases in temperature and the associated impacts, including...
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...