Environmental signals 2001 is the second issue in the series of regular indicator-based reports roduced by the European Environment Agency for high-level policy-makers in EEA member countries and the European Union. The main aim is to present key environmental indicators in order to report, on a...

he following report, carried out with the support of Garrigues & Andersen, is an in-depth study of the reporting obligations outlined in the framework of the Barcelona Convention on the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea Against Pollution (Barcelona Convention). The report is one of three that...

This report is part of the project undertaken with the participation of the firm Garrigues and Andersen to carry out for the European Environment Agency (EEA) the study of the reporting obligations in the framework of environmental conventions and provide support to international activities,...

The assessment of potential losses of agricultural fertilizers to waters require prior calculation of nutrient balance (surplus). This study shows how the use of CORINE land cover allows calculating comparable surplus values at the river catchment level, despite heterogeneity and high degree of...

Green and sustainable chemistry is a new concept and research area. The European Environment Agency has taken the initiative to investigate the possibilities to establish a European Green and Sustainable Chemistry Award. This report illustrates the contest and the steps to establish such award.

This report is aimed at the business and financial sectors, which are beginning to develop strategies on integrating the environment into their activities, following the current legal and political moves to promote the 'integration' of environmental issues into economic activities. It provides...

Contains detailed outcomes of the Total Material Requirement (TMR) study reported on in Environmental signals 2000. It describes the methodology to calculate aggregated material flow indicators and presents a first application on the EU level. The study contains more complete timeseries than the...

This report is an indicator-based assessment of European Community and acceding and candidate countries’ greenhouse gas emission trends, emission projections and existing and proposed policies and measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2010. The report presents an assessment of the...

The fourth EIONET workshop on air quality management and assessment was held in Santorini 23-24 September 1999. This report deals with the discussions on the current European air quality issues and the work of the European Topic Centre on air quality (ETC/AQ) and its partners in the Phare Topic...

As a part of the work programme of the European Environment Agency (EEA), the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) has compiled a first version of a European marine database 'Marinebase'. This database on water quality parameters covers aggregated data related to eutrophication...