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The European environment – State and outlook 2005
- A brief presentation- A brief presentation
Launched on 29th November, 2006,
European Parliament, Brussels
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What is The European Environment
– State and outlook 2005 report?
Published every five years
Previous report released in 1999
Helps the EU in its environmental policy planning and evaluation
New features in the 2005 edition
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What do we produce?• Reports, briefings, indicators, Internet
services and multimedia publications.
• Five-year state and outlook report
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Report structure
The 2005 report includes:
An integrated assessment of Europe’s environment
A core set of indicators
A country by country analysis
A bibliography
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Part A – Structure and some key pointsThe integrated assessment of Europe’s environment contains chapters on:
Environment and Quality of LifeThe Changing Face of EuropeClimate ChangeAir Quality and HealthFreshwater ResourcesMarine and CoastalSoilsBiodiversity and EcosystemsEnvironment and Economic SectorsLooking ahead
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Part B – Structure and some key points
The core set of indicators The EEA has defined 37 environmental indicators that can be used to help assess policy effectiveness
An example of a core indicator is greenhouse gas emission trends to 2010.
The indicators provide timely and relevant information on state and trends.
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Part C – Structure and some key points
Country by country analysis
Based on nine of the core indicators
“Country scorecard”
EEA has selected what core indicators to use for this analysis
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European improvements, local choices, global impacts
EU legislation on environment works
Changes in consumption and trade patterns threaten environmental progress
EU citizens’ environmental “footprint” extends far beyond Europe’s borders
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Global Ecological Overshoot
Ecological overshoot 1961-2002
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Increasing urbanisation, abandoning land
75% of Europe’s population live in the 10% of the land area that is urbanised
Urban sprawl continues increasing pressure on land and water in surrounding areas
Tourism development puts additional pressure on already sprawling stressed coastal areas
Low price of agricultural land contributes to these trends
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Climate change is here
Temperatures will rise 2-6 °C this century (against 0.95 °C last century)
The expected impacts include water shortages, more extreme weather and species migrations
Short term Kyoto targets may be met – longer term aims will be harder to achieve
The transport-sector is a main culprit when it comes to energy use and greenhouse gas emissions
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Slow progress on energy demand management
Energy demand still rise, though slower than GDP growth
A low emissions future requires less energy use, more renewable energy and improved energy efficiency.
Many opportunities for improving efficiency are under-used
Investing in a low-emissions future is cost-efficient (45Euro/person compared with the cost of inaction of 300-1500 Euro/person)
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Energy consumption – different scenarios
Development of gross inland energy consumption and energy related CO2 Emissions according to different scenarios – EU-25
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We are healthier, but exposure to pollutants remains
Europe has been successful in reducing smogs and acid rain
Even so, urban air pollution still causes health problems in many cities (particulates & ozone)
Cleaner transport technology and better urban planning can contribute to improvements
Exposure to chemicals in general affects people in Europe and beyond – levels found in blood samples provide some early warnings
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PCB LevelsPCB levels found in human blood samples from Arctic peoples
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Depleting our natural resources
Many European fish-stocks are over-fished or depleted leaving marine ecosystems under threat
Biodiversity: Despite some progress, many species are still under threat due to habitat fragmentation
Europe’s soil is threatened by erosion, sealing, contamination and salinisation – 2 million sites are potentially contaminated and 100.000 need remediation
Water: Stress increasing in Southern Europe and expected to continue as a result of increasing tourism, irrigation and climate change
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Built-up land and population trends
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Pollution prevention pays offMuch has been done to clean up wastewater
The best approach combines investment in wastewater treatment with economic instruments that reduce wastewater at source
Water pollution from agriculture remains a headache in the EU Member States
It will take decades for groundwater to rid itself of past pollution
Prevention is more cost-effective than cleaning up.
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What can we do?
Europe’s economy has become more materials and energy efficient – EU-10 has the scope to improve efficiency by a factor of 4 to EU-15 levels
The challenge now is to increase environmental integration – agriculture, energy, transport, industry, housing
Long-term coherent policies will help the introduction of financial incentives
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What can we do?
Well designed environmental taxes work and help build in the environmental cost in the price paid
The transport sector illustrates the need for and potential benefits of an integrated approach
Public and private sector expenditure on research and development to be re-inforced if competitiveness in the environment domain is to be achieved.
Institutional set-up can be as important as policies themselves
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The report on the web
Full report – one pdf file per chapterExecutive summary in 25 languagesPress release in 25 languagesSpeechesPress conference (video)Flash animationPowerpoint presentation
www.eea.eu.int