The average carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from new passenger cars registered in the European Union (EU), Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom (UK), increased in 2019, for the third ...
Since the adoption of the Habitats Directive in 1992 and the creation of the Natura 2000 network, the cumulative area of the network has steadily increased in EU Member States. In ...
For the reference year 2015 , 85 861 km 2 of the total area covered by the EEA-39 countries were mapped and categorised as ‘sealed surface’ in the Copernicus imperviousness product. ...
Drought is a recurrent feature of the European climate that affects considerable fractions of the European population each year. The frequency and severity of meteorological and hydrological droughts have increased in ...
Vegetation productivity indicates the spatial distribution and change of the vegetation cover – a key characteristic of ecosystem condition. Vegetation productivity in Europe on average has a regional pattern of increase ...
The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are the largest bodies of ice in the world and play an important role in the global climate system. Both ice sheets have been losing ...
A significant reduction in the consumption of ozone-depleting substances (ODS) has been achieved by the EEA-33 countries since 1986. This reduction has largely been driven by the 1987 United Nations Environment ...
The EU’s primary energy consumption in 2017 was 9 % lower than in 2005, a trend which will continue in 2018 based on EEA’s preliminary estimates. The share of all non-renewable ...
Final energy consumption in the 28 EU Member States was 5.7 % lower in 2017 than in 2005, mainly due to reductions in the industry sector. Preliminary data suggests that this ...
Over the last 45 years, an increase in the number of fish species was observed in the Celtic Sea, the Greater North Sea and the Baltic Sea. This change is mainly ...