European State of the Environment and

Outlook Report 2010 – Part C

Milan Chrenko, NFP/Eionet coordinator

1) What is “S” “O” “E” “R”?

“European State of the Environment and

Outlook Report 2010”

EEA flagship product

E = “Environment” Natural media (e.g. air, water, soil) Living systems

Biodiversity: species, habitats, ecosystems and services!

Human: urban/rural

1) What is “S” “O” “E” “R”?

Member countries

Cooperating countries

E = “Europe” for EEA=

32 Member Countries +

6 West Balkans (Cooperating)

1) What is “S” “O” “E” “R”?

R = “Report”

• An obligation under EEA Regulation

• Art.2 vi: “Publish a report on the state of, trends in and prospects for the environment every five years.”

• Art.2 ii: “Provide the Commission and Members States with the objective information necessary for framing and implementing sound and effective environmental policies.”

1) What is “S” “O” “E” “R”?R = Other “Report” Goals• Fulfil EEA mission: “Support sustainable development

and help achieve significant and measurable improvement in Europe’s environment by providing timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to policy-making agents and the public”.

• More global and long-term focus• “Europe in the world”: reduce impacts on global

environment• “The world in Europe”: implications of global trends

• Link to Pan-European report and global assessments• Continuous reporting/SEIS

1) What is “S” “O” “E” “R”?

S = “State”• …of environment• DPSIR framework

• “Drivers”, “Pressures”, “Impacts” on “State” of environment• Negative (e.g. D=transport, I=pollution)• Positive (e.g. D=improved sewage treatment, I=less fish kills)

• Response/Solution• How to improve “State” in the future• E.g. policies/regulation, communications, investments

O = “Outlooks”?• What will happen to “Pressures”, “State” and “Impact” over time

• “Business as usual” or other “scenarios” for D and R

1) What is “S” “O” “E” “R”?

In summary…

The EEA will produce a “European” “report” for 2010, covering 38 countries, on the current state of the environment, how we got to that state, what that state might be by 2020, what is being done and what could be done to improve that state… plus more, as you will see.

Part C in SOER context

AExploratory

assessment

•Global drivers•Megatrends•Uncertainties•Long-term policy

implications

CCountry

specific analyses

•Diversity•Commonality•Flexibilty

BEEA+6 wide

system analysis

•Atmosphere•Freshwater•Marine•Terrestrial•Human

Synthesis Integrated Analysis (Reflecting – Reviewing – Rethinking)

Europe of concerted national environmental effort

“By using a combination of describing trends and highlighting solutions we want to show that Europe has, through the strong common environmental policy framework that distinguishes it from almost any other part of the world, worked to deliver environmental improvements for the benefit of its citizens”

Vision for Part C

Content of Part C

• Covering 38 countries

• Complementing European benchmarking in Part B with detailed country-level analyses

• Enabling countries to focus on common issues from national perspective

• Bringing out diversity of country realities

• Providing platform for communicating issues of particular national concern

• Assessments by countries, guided by EEA

• Creating process for regular, rather than ad-hoc, reporting

Part C – country-level analysesCommonality • 6 common issues (air pollution, climate change mitigation, nature

protection and biodiversity, land, freshwater, waste)• DPSIR entry point• including outlook 2020

Diversity• Country differences and uniqueness linked to key geographical,

cultural and socio-economic challenges• Socioeconomic long term outlooks, scenarios (beyond

environment)

Flexibility• Highlighting regional issues, good practice/success stories at country

level, and/or tackling global issues at national level• Open for outlooks component

Timetable

2009 Commonality Diversity/Flexibility

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun Draft Air & Water

First Draft Div

Jul

Aug EEA Review EEA Review

Sep Draft Land & Bio

Oct EEA Review Second Draft Div

Nov Draft CC & Waste

Dec EEA Review First Draft Flex

2010 Commonality Diversity/Flexibility

Jan EEA Review

Feb Second Draft

Mar Second Draft Flex

Apr EEA Review

May

Jun Final Draft

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov Launch

Dec Country launches (?)

Part C on the web

• Individual country web sites residing on an EEA web server. Content maintained by the country itself via a web form template

• Each country maintains its own web site at national level and provides inputs into the EEA Part C portal through “RSS/RDF feeds”

• A combination of these two options

Part C and Forward-looking information

• Component on forward-looking information in Diversity and Commonality parts

• Several countries addressed forward-looking information in their 1st drafts of Diversity and Commonality

• Possibility to include - in Flexibility - integrated forward- looking assessment approach using:

• SEIS Forward

• Findings of Blossom project

• Linking all three parts together

• Discuss with your NFP/Part C coordinator possibilities for cooperation on forward-looking component of Part C

Coordination - Part C

•Coordination:

• EEA Part C Team

• National Focal Points/Part C coordinators in 38 countries

•Contributors:

• National Reference Centers for State of the Environment, NRCs for thematic areas

•EEA Reviewers: Part C team/Part B theme teams

SOER 2010 Portal

http://soer2010.ew.eea.europa.eu/

NRC FLIS ToR (1)

In the short term (2009/10):

• Review and comments on EEA products/processes

• SEIS/ SEIS- Forward (including Forward-looking reports and indicators)

• SOER part A

• Contribution to SCP / sectoral scenario activities

• Participation in meetings and working groups

• Participate in relevant meetings

• Two specific Eionet meetings per year

• Information delivery/ reporting/ support to scenario building

• Facilitate exchange of information

• Coordinate activities between different institutions in the countries

NRC FLIS ToR (2)

In the Long run (2011-13)

• Review and comments on EEA products/processes

• Review forward looking reports

• Participation in meetings and working groups

• Participate in capacity building exercises

• Participate in relevant Scenario activities

• Information delivery / reporting / support to scenario building

• Providing good practice information from EEA member countries

• Facilitate exchange of information

• Support to SEIS- Forward, on-site management of country information (access to forward looking indicators, scenarios etc.)

NRC FLIS policy processes to support

• Contribution to SEIS/ SEIS- FORWARD (content input)• EU Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS) – review

and policy learning• Green Economy Initiative/ renewed Lisbon agenda• EU 7th EAP• Environmental Action Plan• Priority setting for EU 7th and 8th Research

Framework Programme• EU action plan on SCP / Sectoral policies• RIO + 20 Process & Conference 2012• European & Global Assessments (ENERGY, UNEP, etc.)