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Total pesticide consumption per hectare of agricultural land

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The baseline for calculating the consumption of pesticides per hectare was total agricultural land area (even though pesticides are not applied on all farmland)

Urban sprawl around Padua and Venice

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Notes: Example of urban sprawl in rural landscapes.

EU greenhouse gas emissions from transport compared with transport volumes (passenger transport by car and freight transport by road)

12 Nov 2009

Energy used and energy lost in 2005 (% of primary energy consumption)

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Elements of the graph are taken directly from these specified categories in the Eurostat Data Explorer (for further information, see Annex 4: Description of main data sources), with the exception of losses in transformation, which is based on the categories: 'Transformation input' minus 'Transformation output'

Share of total greenhouse gas emissions by sector in 2004

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The sectoral shares have been calculated using available sectoral data at the time of writing this chapter

EU-15 C02 emissions from public electricity and heat production compared with electricity production in thermal power plants and final electricity consumption

12 Nov 2009

Left: This graph shows past (1990-2004) carbon dioxide emissions due to public electricity and heat production, and compares them with past and projected electricity production in thermal power plants and final electricity consumption