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Industrial Pollution
Indicators & State of Environment Reporting
Johannes Schilling
Project Manager – Policy evaluation & EU ETS
Air and Climate Change Programme
[email protected]
Eionet NRC workshop on Industrial Pollution
Copenhagen 4th March 2015
Reminder: delivering the MAWP 2014-2018
Specific objective – industrial pollution:
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• to deliver targeted indicators and cross-cutting assessments identifying the
environmental, health and economic impacts of pollutant releases from
industrial facilities to air, water, soil and in waste, including studies assessing
the effectiveness of industrial emissions mitigation policies, costs of pollution
from industrial facilities and identifying co-benefits of policy measures in
these areas;
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Specific objective – sustainability assessments:
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• to produce SOER 2015
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 SOER every five years; needs early preparation of underlying data & info
What is ‘SOER2015’?
The EEA is mandated in its governing regulation to publish a State of the
Environment Report (SOER) every five years, to assess the European environment’s
state, trends and prospects.
• The suite of SOER 2015 products – 2 reports and 87 briefings – provide a
baseline to assess where Europe is making progress against the 7th EAP
objectives.
• The SOER 2015 synthesis report signals opportunities to recalibrate policies and
knowledge in line with the 2050 vision.
SOER 2015 Synthesis report
SOER 2015 Assessment of global megatrends
Global
megatrends
European
briefings
Cross-country
comparisons
Countries and
regions
11 briefings
25 briefings
9 briefings
39+3 briefings
SOER 2015
Two reports, 87 online briefings (many indicator-based)
Synthesis
Report
Part 1
– Setting the scene
Part 2
– Assessing trends
Part 3
– Looking ahead
Global Megatrends
Briefings & Report
Thematic
Briefings
Cross-Country
Comparisons
Country
Briefings
A set of 39 briefings which
summarise reports on the
state of the environment
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A set of 11 briefings, which
address:
A set of 25 thematic
briefings, which address:
A set of 9 briefings, which
address:
• Diverging global
population trends
• Living in an urban world
• Disease burden and risk
of new pandemics
• Accelerating
technological change
• Continued economic
growth?
• From a unipolar to a
multipolar world
• Intensified global
competition for
resources
• Growing pressures on
ecosystems
• Consequences of
climate change
• Increasing pollution load
• Diversifying approach to
governance
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• Air pollution (focus on
selected pollutants)
• Biodiversity (focus on
protected areas)
• Climate Change (focus
on greenhouse gases)
• Freshwater (focus on
nutrients in rivers)
• Waste (focus on
municipal solid waste)
• Agriculture (focus on
organic farming)
• Energy (focus on
energy consumption
and renewables)
• Transport (focus on
passenger transport)
• Resource efficiency
(focus on material
resources)
Printed reports
Air pollution
Biodiversity
CC impacts & adapt. ..
Mitigating Climate...
Forests
Freshwater
Marine
Noise
Soil
Waste
Agriculture
Consumption
Energy
Industry
Maritime
Tourism
Transport
Health
Resource efficiency
Air & climate system
Land systems
Hydrological systems
Urban systems
Natural capital
Green economy
Online briefings
• 33 EEA member
countries
• 6 cooperating countries
in the Western Balkans
In addition, 3 briefings
give an overview of main
environmental challenges
in selected regions that
extend beyond Europe,
identified in the 7th EAP:
• Arctic
• Black Sea
• The Mediterranean.
Thematic briefing on industry - findings
• The environmental performance of European industry
has improved in recent decades.
© Balázs Bálint, Environment & Me /EEA
• However, the sector is still responsible for significant
amounts of pollution to air, water and soil, as well as
generation of waste.
• While legislation has delivered concrete achievements
in reducing pollution, a transition to a greener European
industrial sector will require integrated approaches,
with stronger control of pollution at source, incentives
to change operating practices and use of innovative
technologies.
Indicators in thematic briefing on industry
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in 2015 based on availability and data quality
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covered:
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air pollutants: Emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases and gross value added
(GVA) from European industry (based, among other, on E-PRTR data)
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water pollutants: Nutrient releases to water – emissions intensity of manufacturing
industries (based, among other, on water indicators)
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soil: contaminants affecting the solid matrix (soil, sludge, sediment) (based, among other,
on soil indicators)
Industrial pollution indicator(s) – first steps
Initial objectives of the industrial pollution indicator(s)
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To inform assessments and state of the environment reporting
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To complete EEA‘s core set of indicators („CSI“) with an industrial pollution
perspective
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To enhance the knowledge base on pressures from industry on various
environmental media (air, water, …)
Audience of the indicator(s)
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Policy-makers at national and European levels, in a first instance mainly at technical
level
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Experts (scientists, researchers)
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Specialised media (e.g. professional journals)
Industrial pollution indicator: 1 of 42
EEA‘s core set of indicators (CSI)
• the inner core of all EEA indicators: 42
• selected on the basis of their policy relevance
• regularly updated
• rely on quality data
• require established or expected on-stream data flows
 manageable and stable basis for indicator-based assessments of
progress against environmental policy priorities
Industrial pollution indicator – initial ideas
CSI indicators are typically centred around ‚key policy questions‘.
Examples could be:
1. How important is industrial pollution? (e.g. compared to other
economic sectors; across countries)
2. What are the trends in industrial pollution?
3. Do changes in industrial pollution help achieve policy targets?
(e.g. health and environment policy related objectives)
Examples 1 and 2 could be developed rather quickly, based on
available data and information. Example 3 would require more
time.
Industrial pollution indicator – DPSIR
EEA‘s analytical lenses for interplay between
the environment and socio-economic activities
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D: driving forces
R
P: pressures
S: state
I: impacts
R: response
P
I
S
Industrial pollution indicator – initial ideas
Which part of DPSIR?
• 2015: focus on pressures, i.e. releases to the environment
Which geographic coverage?
• EEA-33 countries: European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein,
Norway, Switzerland and Turkey – subject to data availability
Which media?
• potentially all covered by E-PRTR (data gaps in E-PRTR for TR;
soil information is not representative)
• 2015: air/greenhouse gas; if feasible: water (partially)
Industrial pollution indicator – initial ideas
Which pollutants?
• In 2015 most likely: greenhouse gases and main air pollutants, potentially
persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and heavy metals (HMs)
• potentially water pollutants (tbc)
Which data?
• point source, e.g. LCP, E-PRTR, … UWWT etc.
• inventories, e.g. greenhouse gas inventories, …
Related activity: country fact sheets
• country-by-country overviews; towards the end of 2015
• could include air and water pollutant emissions, GHG,
energy, waste sector information
• key facts on importance of industrial sector and specific
activities in a country
• examples exist:
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climate and energy country profiles;
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air pollution fact sheets;
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progress towards the European 2010 biodiversity target
• can be indicator-based or other sources
• EEA-33 (subject to data availaibility)
Country information and country involvement
• country fact sheets on industrial pollution
• some country-by-country information likely to be
made available with the industrial pollution indicator
 NRCs industrial pollution will be consulted
• quality assurance, for example when outliers in data
are identified
 NRCs industrial pollution may be requested to provide
data input (also via ETC/ACM)
Tasks and next steps
Tasks in 2015 (with ETC/ACM) on industrial pollution indicator and country
fact sheets:
• methodology,
• data gathering,
• first version of indicator for stakeholder discussion; release of country fact
sheets
… further down the road:
• environmental performance?
• efficiency (e.g. energy efficiency)?
• impacts (e.g. health impacts, externalities)?
• other media/themes: soil, waste, resource efficiency?
Country experiences?
Tour de table
- What indicators are used at national level for assessing
industrial pollution? Which challenges did you face?
- What industrial pollution data is collected at national level
other than data required by EU legislation?