This report presents the most recent information provided under the National Emission Ceilings Directive (NECD). The directive requires all 27 Member States of the European Union to report information annually concerning emissions and projections for four main air pollutants: sulphur dioxide (SO...
This document is the annual European Union emission inventory report under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP) (1). The report and its accompanying data are provided as an official submission to the secretariat fo...
In October 2013, the EEA published its annual assessment of the progress of the European Union (EU) and European countries towards achieving their commitments under the Kyoto Protocol for the period 2008–2012, as Part A of the EEA report Trends and projections in Europe 2013 – Tracking progress ...
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 2002/3/EC...
The objective of this report is to propose a feasible and replicable methodology for use by different entities and at varying scales, when identifying green infrastructure (GI) elements. The proposed methodology will help those policymakers and practitioners define a landscape GI network to iden...
This technical report, prepared within the broad framework of EEA work on environmental accounts, presents and describes the tool of environmentally‑extended input-output analysis and illustrates its potential uses. The analysis was conducted by the European Topic Centre on Sustainable Consumpti...
This report presents the results of a study that assesses the theoretical potential to reduce air emissions of SO2 and NOX that might have occurred had the best available techniques (BAT) (3) and associated emission levels (AELs), as described in the large combustion plant best available techniq...
According to Article 21 of the Emissions Trading Directive Member States shall report annually on the application of the directive. The reporting obligation will allow the European Commission to continuously follow the implementation of the directive and provide information for the European Comm...
The report shows that in Europe mountain regions, coastal zones, wetlands and the Mediterranean region are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Although there could be some positive effects, many impacts are likely to be adverse. Existing adaptive measures are concentrated in flood defence...