Título de la Revista: ANNUAL REPORT - EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
Año........................:2001
Número..................:5
Volumen................: 0
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2001: The year in brief 8
1. Reports 13
Reporting activities in general 13
Report highlights in 2001 13
EU greenhouse gas emissions 13
Environmental signals highlight Europe’s public policy challenge 14
Promoting sustainable water use 15
Transport continues to increase pressure on Europe’s environment 17
Air pollution by ozone in Europe in summer 2001 18
Success stories in expanding renewable energies 20
Are environmental measures effective? 21
The precautionary principle 21
2. Developing the EEA 23
The new EEA strategy 23
Reorganisation 23
Enlargement 24
3. Bringing data and people together 26
Developments in the European Environment Information and
Observation Network 26
Five new European topic centres (ETCs) started work 26
Bridging the gap: getting from best available information to best needed
information 28
Reportnet — the electronic EIONET and beyond 29
Specific topics 31
Air and climate change 31
Water 32
Nature protection and biodiversity 33
Terrestrial environment 34
Waste and material flows 34
Cooperation with partners 35
Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat) 35
Joint Research Centre 36
Council of Europe 37
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development 37
Phare 38
Technical assistance to the Commonwealth of Independent States
(Tacis)/pan-European cooperation 38
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe 39
United Nations Environment Programme 39
United Nations Environment Programme/Mediterranean action plan 40
World Health Organisation 40
4. Specific policy support activities 42
Development of a coherent indicator framework 42
Sectors 42
Transport 42
Energy 43
Agriculture 43
Tourism 44
Urban issues 44
European institutions 44
The European Parliament 45
The Council 45
International conventions 45
Aarhus Convention 45
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) 45
The Convention on Biological Diversity — The European Community Clearing-
House Mechanism for Biodiversity (EC CHM) 46
Marine conventions and the Inter-Regional Forum 46
Methodologies and tools 47
Scenarios as tools for international integrated assessment 47
Participatory integrated assessment methods — An assessment of their
usefulness to the European Environment Agency 47
The ShAIR scenario — Towards air and climate change outlooks: Integrated
assessment methodologies and tools applied to air pollution and greenhouse
gases 47
5. Making environmental information accessible 48
Media relations 48
The development of the EEA web site 48
Access to and management of data 50
Information services 51
Raising public awareness — cooperation with the Royal Award Foundation 52
Glossary 53
Annex 1: Printed publications, 2001 59
Annex 2: Key figures for budgetary and staff resources 61
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