Transcript Europe’s Environment: the fourth assessment Or (working title): the Belgrade 2007 report The 2007 Belgrade report.

Europe’s Environment: the fourth
assessment
Or (working title):
the Belgrade 2007 report
The 2007
Belgrade
report
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From Dobris castle to Belgrade
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Dobris
“2007
Belgrade
Report”
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Lucerne
1995
Sofia
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→
1998
Aarhus
→
2003
Kiev
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2007
Belgrade
Kiev Ministerial declaration:
30. We call on EEA to prepare
the fourth assessment report
for the next EfE ministerial conference
building on new partnerships,
especially with UNECE and UNEP…………………
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Policy requirements to the 2007
report
• Information to support/guide the Belgrade
conference (agenda still to be decided)
• On the agenda: Evaluating progress under the
EECCA environment strategy
• Short, policy oriented
•Identifying (new) challenges. Outlook.
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2007 policy context
• Review of the implementation of the EECCA
environmental strategy (at the Belgrade conf.)
•End of process of the mid term review of the
6th Environmental Action Programme of the
European Community
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If we would follow the EECCA env.
strategy, the contents of the Belgrade
2007 report could look like:
1. Introduction
2. Environment and health and the quality of life
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(Urban) air pollution
Water supply and sanitation
Waste and chemicals management
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Water scarcity
Water quality:
Managing the marine environment
3. Management of natural resources in a sustainable way
--Water resources management, including transboundary river basins and
regional seas
--Biodiversity and protection of ecosystems
4. Environmental policy making
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An integrated approach to sectoral integration
Energy
Transport
Agriculture and forestry
Industry
If we would follow the 6th Environmental
action plan of the EU the contents list
could be:
1.Introduction
2.Climate change (Reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Adaptation)
3.Nature and biodiversity,
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An integrated approach to halting biodiversity decline by 2010, land use
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Nature protection: progress in Natura2000
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Managing the marine environment
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Sustainable use of soils
4.Environment and health and quality of life,
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Chemicals and pesticides
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Water quality
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Air quality
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Noise
5.Natural resources and wastes (Decoupling resource consumption, generation
of waste, Re-use and recycling).
6.Objectives and priority areas for action on international issues
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The EU in the wider world: trade and environment
7.Environmental policy making
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Experiences in the thematic strategy approach
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Integration of environment in sectoral policies, from Cardiff to Lisbon
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Proposed contents (EECCA strategy
and 6EAP integrated) Pan-European
1. Introduction (and general socio-economic development)
2. Environment and health and quality of life,
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(Urban) air quality
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Water quality (incl water supply and sanitation, marine water quality)
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Chemicals and pesticides, hazardous wastes
3. Climate change (Impacts, Reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Adaptation)
4. Nature and biodiversity,
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An integrated approach to halting biodiversity decline by 2010, land use
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Nature protection (progress in Natura2000 and other designation)
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Managing the marine environment
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Sustainable use of soils
5.Natural resources and wastes (resource consumption, water scarcity,
generation of waste, re-use and recycling).
6.Europe and the wider world, transboundary issues
7.Environmental policy making
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Integration of environment in sectoral policies
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Energy
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Transport
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Agriculture
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Industry
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The model for each (sub)chapter
environment
1. Endangered ecosystem functionsimpacts on human health and the
economy
economy
2. Indicator based DPSIR analysis , focus
on driving forces and their
D
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environmental burden
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3. Policy lessons
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The set up of each (sub)chapter
environment
1. Pan-european: summary of impacts on
human health and the economy, on
vulnerable groups, regions, poverty
econo
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2. Progress in West and Central Europe, policy
lessons
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3. Progress in EECCA countries, policy lessons
? Country comparisons
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Common principles for report
production (for discussion!)
• The main strategic documents will be
the starting point of the 2007
assessment
• Use of the EEA and EECCA core set of
indicators
• Integrated assessment by
expert/author working groups,
including stakeholder consultation
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Data collection mechanisms and the
building of a knowledge basis
Products
EEA’s 2007 Belgrade Report –
Progress in the outcomes of environmental policies in the whole of Europe as apparent from
changes in pressures and the state of the environment and its impacts on human beings and
ecosystems
Inputs / half
products
European
scenarios
(EEA, UNEP
GEO, OECD
Outlook)
Environmental
indicators in
EEA countries
and Balkan
Information
and
knowledge
base
(system)
Scenario
reports
EEA website
EEA data
warehouse
Report
EECCA
indicators
EHIS and
ENHIS
EEA data
warehouse
Data
collection
within each of
these
processes
Ongoing
EEA/
EIONET data
reporting
Activity under
TACIS project
Ongoing data
collection
WHO
Semi-automated
transfer from int.
databases
Dataflows
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EECCA
environmental
indicators
Environmentala
nd health
indicators
(WHO)
Socioeconomic
indicators
(various
international
organisations)
Data collection mechanisms and the
building of a knowledge basis
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Socioeconomic data: captured from
international databasis (UN, OECD,
EUROSTAT, and others) -> EEA
datawarehouse
EEA environmental data and indicators ->
EEA website
EECCA environmental data and indicators ->
report EECCA indicators (also on web)
Environment and health indicators -> WHO
(EHIS and ENHIS)
Environmental data collection
specifics
• Data collection through the production
of indicators
• No Belgrade report questionnaire
planned
• Additional use of international
databases (UNSO-questionnaire
results, EMEP, UNFCCC, EEA-AIRBASE,
etc)
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Timing
Concept development: 2005
Datacollection/production of indicators : janapril 2006
Writing : april-august 2006
(compilation of EECCA indicator report)
Review/consultations on drafts: Oct-Nov 2006
Febr. 2007 Report(s) to printer
September 2007 Belgrade Conference
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Supporting activities
EECCA: TACIS 1 mln Euro project 2005-2006
•Networking
•Supporting preparation 2007 Belgrade report
•Capacity building (air and climate change, water)
Balkan: CARDS Programme
•Cooperation with the EEA in different topics
•Preparation of selected indicators from EEA core set
EEA member countries
• Production of the core set of indicators (data flows,
reportnet, quality control)
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• Thank you
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Towards a harmonised set of reports
for the Belgrade conference
1. EEA indicator report 2007 covering EEA
member countries and the Balkans,
2. A self standing EECCA indicator report
based on the EECCA core set of indicators,
3. An overarching summary on the state of the
environment
4. The OECD/Task Force report on the
implementation of the EECCA strategy
5. …..
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