Transcript Introduction to EEA - European Topic Centre for Air

Background EEA
• A European Union institution
• Established by EU Regulation
• Staff: about 80
• Budget: 22 Meuro
• Copenhagen
EEA home page: www.eea.eu.int
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The EEA mission
“Through the provision of timely, targeted, relevant
and reliable information to policy making agents
and the public, the EEA aims to help achieve
significant and measurable improvement in
Europe’s environment”
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EEA member and partner countries
EU Member States
+ Norway Iceland
Liechtenstein
+East Europe, Malta,
Cyprus
(members in 2001)
NIS
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Main EEA reports
• 1999 : Environment in the EU at the turn of the
century (State and Outlook/Scenarios)
• 2000+: Environmental signals; Transport and
environment report; Energy and Environment
report; Topic/thematic reports
• 2003 : Europe's Environment : third Assessment
(Kiev report)
• 2004 : next State and Outlook report
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EIONET
European Environmental Information and Observation Network
• National Focal Points
• National Reference Centres
• European Topic Centres (Air and climate
change; Water; Waste; Nature and Biodiversity;
Terrestrial Environment)
• Other national and international institutes
Main objectives for
ETC Air and Climate Change
1. To provide support to framing and implementation of EU
policy and legislation (EU-ECCP/GHG Monitoring
Mechanism; CAFÉ/Air Quality Framework Directive) and
the international conventions UNFCCC and CLRTAP.
2. To contribute to EEA main reports through assessments on
air pollution and climate change (indicators and assessments
of past trends, current state and scenarios)
3. To support member countries in their reporting to the
European Commission and international conventions (data
collection/ information systems EUROAIRNET, AIRBASE
and CORINAIR; guidance/software tools; workshops)
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Focus of ETC/ACC on GHG
emissions/projections, less on state/impact
• EU GHG inventoryhttp://reports.eea.eu.int/Technical_report_No_60
• GHG inventory software tools http://air-climate.eionet.eu.int/tools
• Report ‘EU and MS greenhouse gas emission trends
1990-1999’ http://reports.eea.eu.int/topic_report_2001_10
• Report 'Analysis and comparison of national and EU
projections of greenhouse emissions’
• Support to Kyoto Protocol negotiations and the EU
Monitoring Mechanism
http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/climat/gge.htm
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Policy questions GHG emissions
• Progress in reducing total GHG emissions (towards
KP and individual MS targets) ?
• Progress in reducing non-CO2 emissions and explain
underlying activities (background activity indicators) ?
• Progress in improving emission intensity (non-CO2)
for key source categories ?
• Progress in reducing CO2 emissions and improving
energy efficiency for key source categories ?
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EU15 Total GHG trends
120
Trend 99
Linear target
Target 2010
Index
110
100
96,0
90
92,0
80
1990
9
1992
1994
1996
1998
2000
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
MS and EU Distance to linear Burden Sharing target
120Spain
16,5
Ireland
16,3
13,5
Denmark
Trend 99
Portugal
Linear target
Target10,2
2010
110
8,8
Austria
8,5
Index
Netherlands
7,3
Italy
Belgium
6,1
Greece
5,7
100
France
-0,2
96,0
-0,3
Sw eden

Finland
90
United Kingdom
Germany
Luxembourg
80EU-15
1990
-40,0
10

-1,1
92,0
-8,4
-9,3
-30,7
-0,4
1992
1994
-30,0
1996
1998
-20,0
2000
2002
-10,0
2004
2006
0,0
2008
2010
10,0
2012
20,0
CO2 from energy industries
1 .A .1 . E n e r g y In d u s t r ie s ( C O 2 )
Ir e la n d
S p a in
G re e c e
P o rt ug a l
F in la n d
N e t h e r la n d s
Swed en
D e nma rk
It a ly
F ra nc e
A u s t r ia
EU -1 5
B e lg iu m
G e rma ny
U n it e d Kin g d o m
Lu x e m b o u r g
-1 0 0 %
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-8 0 %
-6 0 %
-4 0 %
-2 0 %
0%
20%
40%
60%
CO2 from transport
1 .A .3 . T r a n s p o r t ( C O 2 )
Ir e la n d
P o rt ug a l
Lu x e m b o u r g
S p a in
A u s t r ia
G re e c e
N e t h e r la n d s
It a ly
EU -1 5
D e nma rk
F ra nc e
B e lg iu m
G e rma ny
Swed en
U n it e d Kin g d o m
F in la n d
-2 0 %
12
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
120%
Comparison national emission projections and EU-wide
GHG emission projections by 2010 (1)
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Energy
83
85
Industry
131
Transport
125
100
Households
114
Services
95
Agriculture
92
82
Waste
62
0
20
40
EU-wide projections
13
60
80
National projections
100
120
140
1990 = 100
Comparison national emission projections and EU-wide
GHG emission projections by 2010 (2)
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100
EU15
143
Portugal
159
136
Greece
129
130
Finland
117
127
Ireland
139
123
122
120
118
119
117
113
114
Spain
Netherlands
Sweden
Belgium
107
108
102
111
101
110
100
Italy
France
Austria
Denmark
81
94
United Kingdom
85
83
81
Germany
0
20
40
EU-wide projections
14
60
80
100
National projections
120
140
160
180
1990 = 100
Why is there a need for CC state/impact
indicators ?
• Increase awareness that CC is already happening
• Show where adaptation measures can be needed
• Need to link to FCCC ultimate objective (possibly
further GHG emission reductions beyond 2012): "to
achieve … stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations …at a
level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with
climate change…… within a time-frame sufficient to allow
ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change; to ensure that food
production is not threatened and to enable economic development to
proceed in a sustainable manner"
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Objectives of workshop and next steps
• Collect relevant information
• Select a preliminary core set of CC indicators
• Prepare a technical report on feasibility of CC
indicators report for Europe
• Include CC indicators in Signals 2002/2003
• Prepare possibly a separate EEA CC report (2003)
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