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A. Under the SOER 2010 umbrella, a number of assessments have been developed — all of which are available on a dedicated web-portal at www.eea.europa.eu/soer:
• a synthesis report (this report) that presents an integrated assessment based on the evidence from the range of assessments developed in the SOER 2010 context and other EEA activities;
• a set of thematic assessments that describe the state of and trends in key environmental issues, review related socio-economic driving forces, and contribute to an evaluation of policy objectives;
• a set of country assessments of the environmental situation in individual European countries;
• an exploratory assessment of global megatrends relevant for the European environment.
B. Overview of the most recent national ‘state of the environment’ reporting across Europe:
Austria |
2010 |
Umweltsituation in Österreich |
Belgium |
2009
|
Brussels: Synthèse de l'état de l'environnement
|
Bulgaria |
2007 |
Annual State of the Environment Report |
Cyprus |
2007 |
State of the Environment Report 2007 |
Czech Republic |
2008 |
Report on the Environment in the Czech Republic |
Denmark |
2009 |
Natur og Miljø 2009 |
Estonia |
2010
|
Estonian Environmental Review 2009
|
Finland |
2008 |
Finland State of the Environment |
France |
2010 |
L'environnement en France |
Germany |
2009
|
Daten zur Umwelt (Environmental Data for Germany)
|
Greece |
2008 |
Greece — The State of the Environment — A Concise Report |
Hungary |
2010 |
State of environment in Hungary 2010 |
Iceland |
2009 |
Umhverfiog auðlindir |
Ireland |
2008 |
Ireland's environment 2008 |
Italy |
2009 |
Environmental Data Yearbook — Key Topics |
Latvia |
2008 |
Nacionālais ziņojums par vides stāvokli 2008 |
Liechtenstein |
– |
n.a. |
Lithuania |
2009 |
Lithuania 2008 State of environment. Only facts |
Luxembourg |
2003 |
L'Environnement en Chiffres 2002–2003 |
Malta |
2008 |
The Environment Report 2008 |
Netherlands |
2009 |
Milieubalans |
Norway |
2009 |
Miljoestatus 2009 |
Poland |
2010 |
Raport o stanie środowiska w Polsce 2008 — raport wskaźnikowy |
Portugal |
2008 |
Relatório do Estado do Ambiente |
Romania |
2009 |
Raport anul privind Starea Mediului în România pe anul 2008 |
Slovakia |
2009 |
State of the Environment Report of the Slovak Republic 2008 |
Slovenia |
2010 |
Poročilo o okolju v Sloveniji 2009 |
Spain |
2010
|
Perfil Ambiental de España 2009 — Informe basado en indicadores
|
Sweden |
2009 |
Sweden's Environmental Objectives |
Switzerland |
2009 |
Environment Switzerland |
Turkey |
2007 |
Turkey State of the Environment Report |
United Kingdom |
2007
|
England: Several, separate SOE reports for different regions in England
|
Albania |
2008 |
Raport per Gjendjen e Mjedisit — State of Environment Report |
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
2010 |
State of Environment in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2010 |
Croatia |
2007 |
Izvješće o stanju okoliša u Republici Hrvatskoj |
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
2000
|
Sostojba na zivotnata sredina 2000
|
Montenegro |
2008 |
State of Environment in Montenegro |
Serbia |
2008 |
Report on the State of Environment in the Republic of Serbia for '08 |
C. The assessment is based largely on the EEA’s indicator sets (CSI — Core Set of Indicators, SEBI — Streamlining European Biodiversity Indicators, ENER — Energy Indicators) plus the EUAnnual Environment Policy Review (EPR):
Greenhouse gas emissions |
EPR, CSI 10 |
Energy efficiency |
ENER 22, ENER 23, ENER 24, ENER 25 |
Renewable energy sources |
ENER 28 |
Global mean temperature change |
EPR, CSI 12 |
Pressure on ecosystems |
EPR, CSI 05 |
Conservation status |
EPR, SEBI 03, SEBI 05, SEBI 08 |
Biodiversity |
SEBI 01 (birds and butterflies) EPR(fisheries) SEBI 12, SEBI 21 |
Soil degradation |
IRENA (soil erosion) |
Decoupling |
SD indicator (Eurostat) |
Waste generation |
EPR, SOER2010 including CSI 16 |
Waste management |
EPR, SOER2010 including CSI 17 |
Water stress |
EPR, CSI 18 |
Water quality |
CSI 19, CSI 20 |
Water pollution |
CSI 22, CSI 24 |
Transboundary air pollution |
EPR, CSI 01, CSI 02, CSI 03, CSI 05 |
Air quality in urban areas |
EPR, CSI 04 |
D. The ambition is to limit global mean temperature increase to below 2°C above pre-industrial levels. This depends critically also on greenhouse gas emissions originating outside Europe.
E. The EU-27 in 2008 was more than halfway towards its unilateral target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20% in 2020 compared to 1990. The provisions of the EU Emission Trading Scheme and the effort-sharing decision ensures that the 2020 target will be met, although the built-in flexibility makes it difficult to foresee the exact mix of policies and measures that industry, individual countries and the EU will use to reduce emissions.
F. Includes both terrestrial and marine areas.
G. Soil degradation in Europe is accelerating, with negative effects on human health, natural ecosystems and climate change, as well as on our economy. Soil erosion by wind and water, which is largely the result of unsuitable land management, is of particular concern in large parts of southern Europe and increasing. (See SOER 2010 Thematic assessment — Soil for further details.)
H. The most recent ‘Annual Environment Policy Review’ assesses the EU’s generation and management of municipal waste to be of ‘average performance or trend not clear, overall problem remains despite some mixed progress’. However, as the assessment presented here concentrates on the generation of waste only, it corresponds with the negative trend described in the Annual Environment Policy Review.
I. The targets set out in the Water Framework Directive have to be reached by 2015; first assessments by member states show that a large percentage of water bodies will not reach good ecological and chemical status.
J. The 6th Environment Action Programme (6th EAP) is a decision of the European Parliament and the Council adopted on 22 July 2002. It sets out the framework for environmental policymaking in the EU for the period 2002 to 2012 and outlines actions that need to be taken to achieve them. It identifies four priority areas: climate change; nature and biodiversity; environment and health; and natural resources and waste. Furthermore, the 6th EAP promotes the full integration of environmental protection into all Community policies and actions and provides the environmental component of the Community’s strategy for sustainable development.
A. These include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) as well as various chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Note that much of the discussion in this section focuses on the role of carbon in general, and CO2 in particular.
B. The IAC (Inter Academy Council) has, in early 2010, started an independent review of the IPCC processes to further strengthen the quality of IPCC reports. Meanwhile, the conclusions from the IPCC 2007 report remain valid. (IAC, 2010. Inter Academy Council Asked to Review Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, press release, 10March 2010).
C. The growth in global GHG emissions increased steeply from 2000 to 2004 compared to the 1990s, but slowed down considerably after 2004. This is partly due to mitigation measures. The economic downturn is estimated to cause a decrease in global CO2 emissions of 3% in 2009, compared to 2008. (PBL, 2009. News in Climate Science and Exploring Boundaries, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), PBL publication number 500114013, Bilthoven, the Netherlands).
D. Changes in greenhouse gas emission presented here exclude net greenhouse gas emissions from land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF), as well as emissions from international aviation and international maritime navigation.
E. ‘Flexible mechanisms’ is a term used to summarise means of meeting national GHG emission targets by market-based approaches to account for mitigation efforts supported in other countries. Such mechanisms include the clean development mechanism (which allows countries to benefit from GHG emissions in countries without emission reduction targets), and joint implementation (which allows countries to get credit investing in emission reduction projects with other countries).
F. Targets based on: EC, 2009. Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources and amending and subsequently repealing Directives 2001/77/EC and 2003/30/EC.
G. The hot summer of 2003 in Europe, for example, has been estimated to have led to EUR 10 billion of economic losses to farming, livestock and forestry from the combined effects of drought, heat stress and fire.
H. An updated overview table of progress towards developing national adaptation strategies is available at www.eea.europa.eu/themes/climate/national-adaptation-strategies.
I. However, it should be noted that these benefits are expected to be greater by 2030 than in 2020, especially since a longer period would be available for implementing measures and for changes to occur in the energy system.
A.
For the formal definition, see Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD).
(UNEP, 1992. Convention on Biological Diversity. www.cbd.int/convention/articles.shtml?a=cbd-02).
B. This chapter deals with biotic natural resources, such as food and fibre. Non-renewable natural resources, such as materials, metals and other minerals, as well as water as a resource, are dealt with in Chapter 4.
C. Based on Corine land-cover data for 2006. Data coverage is for all 32 EEA member countries — with the exception of Greece and the United Kingdom — and 6 EEA cooperating countries.
D. Forest undisturbed by man is forest which shows natural forest dynamics such as natural species composition, occurrence of dead wood, natural age structure and natural regeneration processes, the area of which is large enough to maintain its natural characteristics and where there has been no known human intervention or where the last significant human intervention was long enough ago to have allowed the natural species composition and processes to have become re-established. (This definition is based on the Temperate and Boreal Forest Resources Assessment of the Timber Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).)
E. HNV (High Nature Value) farmland is defined as those areas in Europe where agriculture is a major (usually the dominant) land use and where that agriculture supports, or is associated with, either a high species and habitat diversity or the presence of species of European conservation concern, or both.
F. Decoupled subsidies are paid not on the basis of the product volume, but, for example, on the basis of historical rights (the received payments in a reference year).
G. Collection of data on exposure of biota to other chemicals (industrial chemicals, pesticides, biocides, pharmaceuticals) and its mixtures would be desired to provide a basis for the evaluation of effects of chemical pollution on biodiversity.
H. sA fish stock is considered to be within safe biological limits (SBL), if the spawning stock biomass is more than approximately 17% of an unexploited stock. This SBL indicator does not take wider ecosystem functioning into account. Much stricter criteria have therefore been proposed within the framework of the EUMarine Strategy Framework Directive. The reference level is the ‘spawning stock biomass producing Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY)’, corresponding to about 50% of an unexploited stock. An MSY indicator for Europe is not yet available.
A.
The definition of natural resources given in the EU Thematic Strategy on the sustainable use of natural resources is quite broad, including raw materials, environmental media, flow resources (such as running water, tides, wind) and space (such as land area).
(EC, 2005. Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions — Thematic Strategy on the sustainable use of natural resources. COM(2005) 0670 final).
B. Marine litter is any persistent, manufactured or processed solid material discarded, disposed of or abandoned in marine and coastal environments.
C.
For Germany, it has been estimated that the platinum group metals embedded within catalytic converters exported in used cars equals around 30% of the annual domestic consumption of these metals.
(Buchert, M.; Hermann, A.; Jenseit, W.; Stahl, H.; Osyguß, B.; Hagelüken, C., 2007. Verbesserung der Edelmetallkreisläufe: Analyse der Exportströme von Gebraucht-Pkw und -Elektro(nik)geräten am Hamburger Hafen. UBA-FB-Nr: 001005, Förderkennzeichen: 363 01 133. Umweltbundesamt.
www.umweltdaten.de/publikationen/fpdf-l/3200.pdf).
D. Biowaste refers to biodegradable garden and park waste, food and kitchen waste from households, restaurants, caterers and retail premises and comparable waste from food processing plants.
E.
In the EU, between 118 and 138 million tonnes of bio-waste are produced every year, of which about 88 million tonnes is municipal waste.
(EC, 2010. Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on future steps in bio-waste management in the European Union. Brussels, 18.5.2010. COM(2010)235 final. http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/compost/pdf/com_biowaste.pdf).
F. WEI (water exploitation index) divides the total water abstraction by the long-term annual average resource. However, this indicator does not fully reflect the level of stress upon local water resources: this is primarily because the WEI is based on annual data and cannot, therefore, account for seasonal variations in water availability and abstraction.
G. EEA analyses of environmental impacts — GHG emissions, acidifying substances, ozone forming substances, material resources use — are based on a sample of nine EU Member States using NAMEA (National Accounting Matrix including Environmental Accounts): Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Sweden.
A. DALYs (disability-adjusted life years) indicate the potential number of healthy life years lost in a population, due to premature mortality, and to years spent with reduced quality of life due to disease.
B. Sum of Ozone Means Over 35 ppb (SOMO35) — the sum of the differences between maximum daily 8-hour running mean concentrations greater than 70µg/m3 (= 35 parts per billion) and 70µg/m3.
C. EU-25 refers to EU-27 Member States, without Bulgaria and Romania.
D. PM10 — fine and coarse particulate matter with a diameter below 10micrometer.
E. 50 µg/m3 — daily mean not be exceeded on more than 35 days a calendar year.
F. PM2.5 — fine particulate matter with a diameter below 2.5micrometer.
G. For a discussion of uncertainty and methodological details, see ETC/ACC Technical Paper 2009/1: http://air-climate.eionet.europa.eu/docs/ETCACC_TP_2009_1_European_PM2.5_HIA.pdf.
H. The average exposure indicator (AEI) is a 3-year running annual mean PM2.5 concentration averaged over the selected monitoring stations in agglomerations and larger urban areas, set in urban background locations.
I.
Lden is the day-evening-night noise indicator. Lnight is the night-time noise indicator.
(EC, 2002. Directive 2002/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 June 2002 relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise).
J. Such EU-funded research projects include the NoMiracle, EDEN and Comprendo project.
K. The first outbreak of a chikungunya fever, transmitted by the Asian tiger mosquito, in Europe was reported in northern Italy in 2007.
L. Cities in their administrative borders; see: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/region_cities/city_urban.
A.
Based on EEA Corine land-cover data for 2006. Data coverage is for all 32EEA member countries — with the exception of Greece and the United Kingdom — and 6 EEA cooperating countries.
(CLC, 2006. Corine land cover. Corine land cover 2006 raster data. www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/corine-land-cover-2006-raster).
A. HANPP (human appropriation of net primary production) can be calculated in different ways, depending on the reference value for primary production. For estimating the impact on natural ecosystems, this can be related to an estimated primary production of the potential natural vegetation. In this definition, HANPP also takes changes in primary production resulting from land conversion into account.
B. DALYs (disability-adjusted life years) indicate the potential number of healthy life years lost in a population, due to premature mortality, and to years spent with reduced quality of life due to disease.
C. There is little agreement, however, about the definition of ‘middle class’ in economic terms.
A. However, it should be noted that these benefits are expected to be greater by 2030 than in 2020, especially since a longer period would be available for implementing measures and for changes to occur in the energy system.
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8. EEC, 1992. Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora.
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13. Council of the European Union, 2006. Review of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy (EU SDS) — Renewed Strategy. Brussels, 26 June 2006.
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Notes for table 1.2
(a) Council of the European Union, 2009. Council Conclusions on EU position for the Copenhagen Climate Conference (7–18 December 2009) 2968th Environment Council meeting. Luxembourg, 21 October 2009.
(b) EC, 2008. Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: 20 20 by 2020, Europe’s climate change opportunity. COM(2008) 30 final.
(c) EC, 2001. Directive 2001/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2001 on national emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants.
(d) EC, 2009. Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on the conservation of wild birds 1979/404. EUBirds Directive (79/409/EEC).
(e) EC, 2006. Communication from the Commission — Halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010 — and beyond — Sustaining ecosystem services for human well-being. COM(2006) 0216 final.
(f) EC, 2008. Directive 2008/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 establishing a framework for community action in the field of marine environmental policy (Marine Strategy Framework Directive).
(g) EC, 2006. Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions — Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection. COM(2006) 0231 final.
(h) EC, 2002. Decision No 1600/2002/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 July 2002 laying down the Sixth Community Environment Action Programme.
(i) EC, 2000. Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy.
(j) EEC, 1991. Council Directive 91/676/EEC of 12 December 1991 concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources.
(k) EC, 2006. Directive 2006/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 February 2006 concerning the management of bathing water quality and repealing Directive 76/160/EEC.
(l) EEC, 1991. Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste-water treatment.
(m) EC, 2005. Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament: thematic strategy on air pollution. COM(2005) 446 final.
1.
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10–12March 2009.
2. WMO, 2009. WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, The State of Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere Using Global Observations through 2008, No 5, 23 November 2009, Geneva.
3. WMO, 2010. WMO statement on the status of the global climate in 2009, WMO-No1055, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva.
4. IPCC, 2007. Climate change 2007: Synthesis Report (Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
5. Netherlands Environment Assessment Agency (PBL), 2009. News in Climate Science and Exploring Boundaries. PBL publication number 500114013. Bilthoven, the Netherlands.
6. EEA-JRC-WHO, 2008. Impacts of Europe’s changing climate — 2008indicator-based assessment. Joint EEA-JRC-WHO report. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg.
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Figure 2.1
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Box 2.1
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Box 2.2
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Map 2.1
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r. Brewer, P., 2009. Planetary boundaries: Consider all consequences. Commentary. Nature Reports ‘Climate Change. The news behind the science. The science behind the news’. October 2009: 117–118.
s. Samper, C., 2009. Planetary boundaries: Rethinking biodiversity. Commentary. Nature Reports ‘Climate Change. The news behind the science. The science behind the news’. October 2009: 118–119.
t. Schlesinger, W.H., 2009. Thresholds risk prolonged degradation. Commentary. Nature Reports ‘Climate Change. The news behind the science. The science behind the news’. October 2009: 112–113.
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y. Netherlands Environment Assessment Agency (PBL), 2009. News in Climate Science and Exploring Boundaries. PBL publication number 500114013. Bilthoven, the Netherlands.
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For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/soer/2010/synthesis/synthesis/references.xhtml or scan the QR code.
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