1. Update: EEA/Eionet developments
European Environment Agency 1

2. Approach to presentation
1) Context for EEA indicator work
2) Reflections arising from SOER 2010
3) The EEA indicator review process
4) Considerations for future work 2

3. SOER 2010 outcome: a series of assessments across themes and scales
Thematic assessments
Country assessments
Understanding climate change
Country profiles
Mitigating climate change
National and regional stories
Adapting to climate change
Biodiversity
Common environmental themes
Land use
Land use
Land use
Climate change mitigation
Soil
Soil
Soil
Land use
Marine and coastal environment
Marine and coastal environment
Assessment of global megatrends
Nature protection & biodiversity
Consumption and environment
Waste
Material resources and waste
Social megatrends
Freshwater
Water resources: quantity & flows
Technological megatrends
Air pollution
Freshwater quality
Economic megatrends
Each EEA member country (32) and EEA cooperating country (6) assessed all six environmental themes above.
Air pollution
Environmental megatrends
Urban environment
Political megatrends

4. Overarching rationale: Linking assessments across themes and scales
Global level
European level
National level
...
Sub-national level
Climate
Land
Water
SOE Assessments
Thematic Assessments
Note: Indicators (i.e. the toblerone‘s ‘scaffolding‘) are the basis of environmental assessments (i.e.the toblerone‘s ‘chocolate‘) 4

5. EEA indicators: ongoing activities and proposals under discussion
Four distinct but inter-connected activities underway:
(1) ‘Clean-up‘ of existing EEA indicators – end-2009: ~700 across 24 themes and sectors; - current: 226 across 12 themes and sectors ( in prep.).
(2) ‘Mapping‘ of EEA indicators & ‘Identifying‘ new demands in response to policy needs – e.g. EU2020, SCP, ecosystems;
(3) ‘Linking‘ to indicators in national-level SoE reports to gauge compatibility between EEA and national indicators (SENSE);
(4) ‘Using‘ existing indicators in an annual publication of a thematically cross-cutting indicator-based assessment. 5

6. EEA indicators: ‘Clean-up‘ of existing EEA indicators
Tier 1: EEA core indicators
CSI (core set of indicators)
Energy indicators (29 / 5 CSI)
Climate change indcators
(42+4 / 5 CSI)
Transport indicators (38 / 3 CSI)
Tier 2: EEA indicator themes
Agriculture (CSI)
Air pollution (APE+CSI)
Biodiversity (SEBI + CSI)
Climate (CLIM + CSI)
Energy (ENER + CSI)
Transport (TERM + CSI)
Waste (CSI)
Water (WEC, WEU, WHS + CSI)
Fisheries (CSI)
Land & Soil (CSI)
Tourism (YIR)
Env. Scenarios (Outlook, FLIS)
Biodiversity indicators
(25+2 / 3 CSI)
Waste indicators (2 / 2 CSI)
EEA core indicators
(37 CSI)
Air pollution indicators
(6+5 / 5 CSI)
Water indicators (7+7 / 7 CSI)
Agriculture indicators
(2 / 2 CSI)
Fisheries indicators (3 / 3 CSI)
Land & Soil indicators (2/ 2 CSI)
Environmental scenarios indicators
(45 / 0 CSI)
Tourism indicators (7 / 0 CSI) 6

7. EEA indicators: ‘Mapping‘ of EEA indicators & ‘Identifying’ new demands
Mapping will provide a basis for adding or deleting further indicators to the overall EEA indicators set.
Criteria will provide a robust and transparent basis for making changes to the EEA indicators as new policy demands require.
‘Identifying‘ new demands in response to policy needs, such as:
EU 2020 / resource efficiency indicators
SCP (consumption & production) indicators
Monitoring the European ecosystem capital 7

8. EEA indicators: ‘Using‘ existing indicators in an annual publication
Using EEA indicator in annual indicator report series.
Each annual edition should provide an assessment of selected, cross-cutting issues (in 2012: Green Economy).
The report series will build largely on indicators hosted by the EEA within the various environmental themes and economic sectors.
Human well-being
(social and human capital)
goal: enhance social equity
and fair burden-sharing
Ecosystem (natural capital)
goal: ensure
ecological
resilience
Economy
(manufactured and financial capital)
goal: improve
resource
efficiency
GREEN ECONOMY 8

9. Consideration for future work
1) Need to link EEA indicator review process to other EU-level activities, e.g. indicator streamlining work
2) EEA internal working group to present 1st proposal to
EEA Eionet & Magt. Board meetings at end of 2011
3) Advancing knowledge and policy demands require adaptation of EEA ( & other) indicator sets
4) The stronger the statistical foundation for indicators and assessments the higher their credibility in policy process 9

10. Thank you for your attention! Jan-Erik.Petersen@eea.europa.eu